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The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc

The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc (Arkansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,202 to it, the largest being ROY & CHRISTINE STURGIS CHARITABLE & EDUCATIONAL TRUST ($130,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$394k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$330k
Net assets
$189k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc does

Mission

Provide nutrition, assistance and hope to every person seeking support through its ministry. Families served-9,016; recipients-36,065; new families-2,556

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Emergency Assistance program providing food, clothing, rent, utility assistance & medicine to every person seeking support Families served-9,016; Recipients-36,065; New Families-2,556

    $276,704 spentof which $124,150 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $276,704.

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 ($256k) Expenses 100 ($292k) Net assets 100 ($89k)2018 Revenue 92 ($235k) Expenses 83 ($241k) Net assets 93 ($82k)2019 Revenue 99 ($253k) Expenses 85 ($247k) Net assets 100 ($89k)2020 Revenue 123 ($314k) Expenses 93 ($272k) Net assets 147 ($131k)2021 Revenue 156 ($399k) Expenses 111 ($323k) Net assets 233 ($207k)2022 Revenue 110 ($282k) Expenses 103 ($302k) Net assets 211 ($187k)2023 Revenue 125 ($320k) Expenses 113 ($331k) Net assets 198 ($176k)2024 Revenue 101 ($257k) Expenses 111 ($324k) Net assets 123 ($109k)2025 Revenue 154 ($394k) Expenses 108 ($314k) Net assets 213 ($189k)
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Revenue (154)Expenses (108)Net assets (213)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 $117k to $202k (+73%).

$97k
$97k
$99k
$142k
$217k
$203k
$183k
$117k
$202k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2018 13% · 2019 17% · 2020 17% · 2021 25% · 2022 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$36k
’17
−$6k
’18
$6k
’19
$42k
’20
$76k
’21
−$20k
’22
−$11k
’23
−$67k
’24
$81k
’25
4.1
months of
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

Gayle Priddy

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed141312121112101110
Joined·+2+2+0+1+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·33020201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $9k → $59k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock 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

The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

61% 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 The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc.

39%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 64% · 2021 65% · 2022 30% · 2023 40% — 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 The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.

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

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Arkansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc?
The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc (Arkansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,202 to it, the largest being ROY & CHRISTINE STURGIS CHARITABLE & EDUCATIONAL TRUST ($130,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $330,202 in grants to The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc?
ROY & CHRISTINE STURGIS CHARITABLE & EDUCATIONAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 5 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