California · Nonprofit
SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL
SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,817,015 to it, the largest being THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ($10,555,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $213k
What Serving Hands International does
Mission
Serving Hands International mission is to aid the poorest people in the world and strive to encourage in them self-sufficiency, dignity, and hope by providing educational and vocational opportunities, food, clothing, shelter, medical assistance, and spiritual guidance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education program:shi supported the education, including after school programs, of about 7,500 children by providing financial aid, classroom supplies, backpacks, and other learning materials in impoverished areas.
$221,705 spentof which $221,705 as grants15% of program spendingFood and development aid program:humanitarian aid was made available to about 724,000 people in need. The aid included basic life necessities such as food, water, clothing, blankets, emergency shelters, sandbags, and other needed resources.
$1,169,363 spentof which $1,169,363 as grants82% of program spendingMedical aid program:medical aid was provided to over 19,000 impoverished people in mexico. The programs included funding services for surgeries, medications, and preventative medicine. The programs address a wide range of medical treatments such as dental care, eye care, internal medicine, pediatrics, cancer treatment, reconstructive surgeries, and hospice.
$40,800 spentof which $40,800 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,431,868.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $196k (−86%).
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 SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $550k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL’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
SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 96% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 91% — 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
100% of SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M 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
SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL: 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 SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL?
- SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,817,015 to it, the largest being THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ($10,555,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,817,015 in grants to SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL?
- THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL is the largest funder on record, with $10,555,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL 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 3 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