Tennessee · Nonprofit
Helping Hands of Putnam County
Helping Hands of Putnam County (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,066 to it, the largest being KHARIS FOUNDATION ($55,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $572k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $244k
What Helping Hands of Putnam County does
Mission
The mission of Helping Hands of Putnam County is to administer received foods and monetary donations to assist families in Putnam County with food, utilities, medical expenses and rent. Helping Hands also administers Project Help funds from the City of Cookeville and Upper Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation with no cost to donors or recipients in the county.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Helping Hands is a non-profit organization that helps both Putnam County residents and transients, who are in emergency situations and in need of food, rent, transportation, utility payment, medication, eye examinations and eyeglasses. This assistance is intended for those who are otherwise unable to afford these much needed services.
$567,066 spentof which $469,782 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $567,066.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $203k to $289k (+42%).
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: 2019 16% · 2020 12% · 2021 29% · 2022 19% · 2023 5% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $16k → $21k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 Putnam County’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 Putnam County leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 Putnam County.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 43% · 2021 62% · 2022 77% · 2023 73% — 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
100% of Helping Hands of Putnam County's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Putnam County
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Helping Hands of Putnam County: 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 Putnam County?
- Helping Hands of Putnam County (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,066 to it, the largest being KHARIS FOUNDATION ($55,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Helping Hands of Putnam County have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $181,066 in grants to Helping Hands of Putnam County, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Helping Hands of Putnam County?
- KHARIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Helping Hands of Putnam County find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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