New Jersey · Nonprofit
HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC)
HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC) (New Jersey) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,275,706 to it, the largest being NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION ($2,684,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Housing and Neighborhood Development Services Inc (Hands Inc) does
Mission
Hands' mission is to keep the neighborhoods of orange and east orange places where people can and do choose to raise their family and run their business.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Real estate development- complete and sell an affordable rehabbed home. Manage the predevelopment of two mixed-use arts-related developments in the valley arts district.
$1,361,237 spent$979,419 earned by the program71% of program spendingCommunity building and organizing- building civic engagement and empowerment through developing resident leadership for advocay and programming. Work in collaboration with partners on initiatives in community arts, programming for raising community health and planning and advocacy to improvement the built environment and community programs.
$359,957 spentof which $197,634 as grants19% of program spendingThe organization operates a lead remediation and abatement program in partnership with the new jersey department of community affairs (njdca). The program is designed to reduce lead-based paint hazards in residential properties constructed prior to 1978.through this program, eligible low- to moderate-income tenants and homeowners receive lead inspection, risk assessment, and remediation or abatement services at no cost, subject to njdca program guidelines and available funding. Services are performed by certified professionals in accordance with applicable federal and state regulations. Eligibility, scope of services, and program availability are determined by njdca requirements. The organization administers program outreach, coordination, and support to facilitate the delivery of these services to qualifying households.
$190,054 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,911,248.
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 2017 to 2018, from $21M to $16M (−25%).
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 52% · 2018 39% · 2019 29% · 2020 32% · 2021 43% · 2022 44% · 2023 23% · 2024 26% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Lisa Boyd
Executive director
Board chair
Steven Gomez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $75k → $1.1M.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC)’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
HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 88% · 2020 62% · 2021 62% · 2022 94% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“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
18% of HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC) draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $908k 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 HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Villita Artes · disregarded
- Valley Renaissance Urban Renewal Entity · disregarded
- Operation Neighborhood Recovery · partnership
- Valley Revitalization LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC)?
- HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC) (New Jersey) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,275,706 to it, the largest being NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION ($2,684,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC) have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $4,275,706 in grants to HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC), 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC)?
- NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,684,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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