Connecticut · Nonprofit
Just Hands Racing Foundation
Just Hands Racing Foundation (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,379 to it, the largest being MICHAEL E SIMMONS FOUNDATION INC FRIENDS OF MICHAEL ($12,379). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $161k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $205k
What Just Hands Racing Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to enable the disabled community to experience independence, competition, and learning on the same level as every human through motorsports and mountain biking.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
To enable the disabled community to exerience independence and competition on the same level as every human and have fun in a track car.
$26,753 spent78% of program spendingTo enable the disabled community to exerience independence and competition on the same level as every human and have fun mountain biking.
$7,556 spent22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,309.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $120k to $179k (+50%).
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.
100% of Just Hands Racing Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Torsten Gross
Chair and President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Just Hands Racing Foundation’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Just Hands Racing Foundation's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Just Hands Racing Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Just Hands Racing Foundation
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 Just Hands Racing Foundation: 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 Just Hands Racing Foundation?
- Just Hands Racing Foundation (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,379 to it, the largest being MICHAEL E SIMMONS FOUNDATION INC FRIENDS OF MICHAEL ($12,379). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Just Hands Racing Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,379 in grants to Just Hands Racing Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Just Hands Racing Foundation?
- MICHAEL E SIMMONS FOUNDATION INC FRIENDS OF MICHAEL is the largest funder on record, with $12,379 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Just Hands Racing Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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