California · Nonprofit
IN YOUR HANDS INC
IN YOUR HANDS INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,542 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($57,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What In Your Hands Inc does
Mission
The exempt purpose of this corporation is to further the education and training of young people in a manner consistent with a certified curriculum.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In Your Hands DBA Palo Alto Preparatory School is a unique, private, college prep high school designed to cultivate student success. Small class sizes, experiential education, and emotional/physical safety, shape the school. As needed, the necessary resources to support the LD student community are incorporated into the curriculum to foster the growth of well-rounded individuals. With a 100% high school graduation rate, reports have shown that Palo Alto Preparatory has achieved a 93% college graduation rate once students graduate from Palo Alto Prep. Our current seniors, Class of 2024, are attending the following colleges: Mills College, Oregon State University, San Francisco State, University of Washington , Cal State Sonoma, University of Denver, University of Colorado Boulder Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and St Marys College, as well as many local community colleges. This past year we received the highest certification from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Our college prep academics continue to provide an environment for not only high achievers but also students with learning differences in an environment where all students are provided the teaching and supports…
$1,643,350 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,643,350.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.3M to $2.8M (+23%).
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: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of IN YOUR HANDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Chris Keck
President & CEO
Board chair
Patrick Scheufler
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $8k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 IN YOUR 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
IN YOUR HANDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 IN YOUR HANDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 92% · 2022 99% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
86% of IN YOUR HANDS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $12k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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.
Against its field
IN YOUR HANDS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like IN YOUR 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IN YOUR HANDS 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 IN YOUR HANDS INC?
- IN YOUR HANDS INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,542 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($57,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IN YOUR HANDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $83,542 in grants to IN YOUR HANDS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IN YOUR HANDS INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $57,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IN YOUR HANDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 6 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