Minnesota · Nonprofit
HELPING HANDS OUTREACH
HELPING HANDS OUTREACH (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,090 to it, the largest being CENTRAL MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON AGING INC ($194,612). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $233k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $427k
- Net assets
- $307k
What Helping Hands Outreach does
Mission
Our mission is to help create a healthy community where older adults and adults with disabilities want to live and be a vital part of our community.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Direct volunteer and professional services - homemaking, chores, assisted transportation, errands, home repairs and maintenance, home modification, friendly visiting and companionship, and telephone support were provided to 330 older adults and adults with disabilities.
$123,698 spent$111,259 earned by the program69% of program spendingCaregiver support - individual consultation with caregivers to help them reduce their stress and strengthen their capacity to care for their loved ones, caregiver education to better equip caregivers with tools that will help them in their caregiving, adult day center, and in-home respite for caregivers so that they can have a break from their caregiving were provided to 7 caregivers.
$32,213 spent18% of program spendingEducation and training - health fairs, wellness training, exercise classes, chronic disease self-management classes, fall prevention classes, caregiver education classes, caregiver support groups, health information talks, personal health planning and retirement planning were provided to 22 older adults and adults with disabilities and monthly newsletter information on healthy aging was provided to over 2,800 persons.
$22,512 spent$2,500 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $178,423.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $149k to $199k (+34%).
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: 2017 34% · 2018 29% · 2019 22% · 2020 43% · 2021 41% · 2022 42% · 2024 34% · 2025 41% · 2026 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of HELPING HANDS OUTREACH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 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
Denise Leahy
Executive director
Board chair
Peter Omann
Chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $49k → $41k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 OUTREACH’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 OUTREACH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% 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
74% 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 OUTREACH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 49% · 2019 42% · 2020 57% · 2021 45% · 2022 67% · 2023 56% — broadly stable.
“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.
How long its funders stay
25% of HELPING HANDS OUTREACH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of HELPING HANDS OUTREACH's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
HELPING HANDS OUTREACH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 520 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 520 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like HELPING HANDS OUTREACH
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 OUTREACH: 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 OUTREACH?
- HELPING HANDS OUTREACH (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,090 to it, the largest being CENTRAL MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON AGING INC ($194,612). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELPING HANDS OUTREACH have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $427,090 in grants to HELPING HANDS OUTREACH, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPING HANDS OUTREACH?
- CENTRAL MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON AGING INC is the largest funder on record, with $194,612 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPING HANDS OUTREACH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing