South Carolina · Nonprofit
HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC
HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,898 to it, the largest being TRIDENT UNITED WAY ($163,713). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $219k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $256k
- Net assets
- $403k
What Helping Hands of Goose Creek Inc does
Mission
Helping Hands is a crisis food pantry providing groceries and resources to Lowcountry families facing food insecurity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Helping Hands offers a Choice Pantry Program to all families coming for assistance. In 2025, we distributed 6077 carts of groceries to 1646 unique families with a combined weight of 402,000 lbs. We spent $146,193 on this program, with combined soft (overhead) and hard costs of groceries purchased. Our revenue is a combination of food and funds: we received FMV of $20,368 lbs of food and $86,332 in restricted/fundraised dollars.
$143,843 spent$106,700 earned by the program98% of program spendingHelping Hands provides an ALICE program to the working poor in our community. These are the people who don't qualify for government-funded programs but need additional assistance in feeding their families. This program supported 8 unique families with a $50 grocery-only gift card in addition to their choice pantry program shop. We distributed a total of $2350 in gift cards and raised $2628 for the program.
$2,350 spent$2,628 earned by the program2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $146,193.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $387k to $403k (+4%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 56% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Niccole Franklin
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $64k → $33k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 100% · 2019 92% · 2020 65% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
90% of HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC?
- HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,898 to it, the largest being TRIDENT UNITED WAY ($163,713). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $255,898 in grants to HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC?
- TRIDENT UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $163,713 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing