Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE HAMS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK INC
THE HAMS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $21 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($21). 1 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 FY2025
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $21
- Net assets
- $2k
What The Hams Harm Reduction Network Inc does
Mission
The HAMS Harm Reduction Network provides information and support for people who wish to reduce the harm in their lives cause by the use of alcohol or drugs. HAMS neither encourages nor condemns alcohol use or alcohol intoxication. HAMS recognizes recreational intoxication as a reality and seeks to reduce harms associated with it. HAMS believes in the autonomy of the individual and supports each individual's choice of a goal vis a vis alcohol - whether the goal is safer drinking, reduced drinking, or quitting. HAMS supports every positive change. The focus of HAMS is alcohol harm reduction, but users of any substance are welcome. HAMS offers support via live and online groups and offers information via the web and printed page. HAMS support groups are lay-led and free-of charge.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
HAMS Information Program: This program initiative provides individuals with information about how to reduce the harms in their lives caused by the use of alcohol or engagement in other addictive or high risk behaviors. The focus is on offering individuals evidence-based behavioral change strategies, techniques, and exercises which they can implement by themselves in a self-help fashion. This how-to self-change information is offered via the printed page and web page and may also be offered via other media such as video, audio, etc. This information is also offered to professionals who wish to work with individuals who are following an alcohol harm reduction plan. Information is offered to help individuals attain goals of safer drinking, reduced drinking, or quitting alcohol altogether. The success of this program is measured in terms of the number of books sold and number of hits on the web site.
$552 spent$1,528 earned by the program41% of program spendingHAMS Support Network Program: Offers live and online support meetings for people who are seeking to make any positive change in their drinking habits. Success of this program is measured by counting the number of members in the groups and number of messages posted to online groups.
$677 spent50% of program spendingHAMS Outreach Program: Our outreach program seeks to connect individuals who are having problems with alcohol or other addictive or high risk behaviors with the information and/or support which they need to modify or overcome these problematic behaviors. Our outreach program also reaches out to mental health, substance abuse, and other professionals to introduce them to the existence of the HAMS program and to offer them new options for helping their clients via harm reduction. Success is measured by counting the number of clicks on Google AdWords, number of downloads of podcasts and videos, number of facebook likes, etc.
$130 spent10% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,359.
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 2019 to 2020, from $11k to $7k (−35%).
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.
60% of THE HAMS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Kenneth Anderson
Executive Director
Board chair
Electra Weeks
Board Chair & Secretary & Director of Electronic Resources
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $11.
1 of 1 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 THE HAMS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE HAMS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE HAMS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE HAMS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK INC
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 THE HAMS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK 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 THE HAMS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK INC?
- THE HAMS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $21 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($21). 1 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 THE HAMS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $21 in grants to THE HAMS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HAMS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HAMS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 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