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OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION

OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $346,700 to it, the largest being BEATRICE SNYDER FOUNDATION ($346,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$161k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$347k
Net assets
$4k
1/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Open Hands Foundation does

Programs

  1. Open hands initiative hosted a climate workshop for 30 student climate action leaders from universities across south asia in collaboration with seeds of peace and the student society for climate action awareness. The workshop helped deepen connections between south asian climate activists and american non-profit business, and government leaders, built cross-culturual competency in cimate change action and awareness and provided opportunities for learning around sustainability and climate innovation.

    $5,692 spent
  2. Open hands initiative provided a charitable grant to seeds of peace for the purpose of supporting youth-run climate action initiatives across south asia. The grants helped scale and strenghten the community-based projects to imrpove viability and impact.

    $35,000 spent
  3. Open hands initiative piloted the "coffee & conversation" virtual exchange program for emerging young leaders from across the western hemisphere. The program provided 1) dialogue training, which focused on improving cross-cultural communication skills, empathy, and deep listening; and 2)moderated thematic conversations that allowed participants to explore different ideas and perspectives with their international counterparts, while putting their constructive dialogue skills into practice.

    $5,500 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($201k) Expenses 100 ($201k) Net assets -1267 ($-1521)2018 Revenue 84 ($168k) Expenses 83 ($167k) Net assets 100 ($120)2019 Revenue 188 ($379k) Expenses 188 ($379k) Net assets 135 ($162)2020 Revenue 88 ($176k) Expenses 88 ($176k) Net assets 264 ($317)2021 Revenue 141 ($283k) Expenses 141 ($283k) Net assets 349 ($419)2022 Revenue 86 ($172k) Expenses 86 ($173k) Net assets 278 ($333)2023 Revenue 59 ($119k) Expenses 60 ($120k) Net assets 288 ($345)2024 Revenue 35 ($70k) Expenses 35 ($70k) Net assets 65 ($78)2025 Revenue 80 ($161k) Expenses 78 ($157k) Net assets 3680 ($4k)
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Revenue (80)Expenses (78)Net assets (3680)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $78 to $4k (+5562%).

$3
$120
$162
$317
$419
$333
$345
$78
$4k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $35k → $112k.

Funder
'19
'20
'22
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of OPEN HANDS 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

OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION?
OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $346,700 to it, the largest being BEATRICE SNYDER FOUNDATION ($346,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $346,700 in grants to OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION?
BEATRICE SNYDER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $346,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 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