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VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF MIAMI INC HANDS ON MIAMI

VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF MIAMI INC HANDS ON MIAMI (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,356 to it, the largest being POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION ($90,325). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$40k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$130k
Net assets
$0
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Volunteer Action Center of Miami Inc Hands on Miami does

Mission

Hands on miami inspires, equips and mobilizes people to take action to positively affect change in miami-dade county.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Volunteer services - hands on miami recruits, trains and engages volunteers in service in order to meet the needs of local communities. We connect individuals and groups to meaningful hands-on service opportunities in miami-dade county. Youth leadership development - engage youth ages 5-17 in volunteer service that develops their leadership skills and provides solutions to community issues through volunteerism.

    $48,547 spent$38,884 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $48,547.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($129k) Expenses 100 ($118k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2018 Revenue 160 ($206k) Expenses 167 ($197k) Net assets 101 ($62k)2019 Revenue 125 ($162k) Expenses 143 ($168k) Net assets 90 ($55k)2020 Revenue 123 ($159k) Expenses 143 ($168k) Net assets 76 ($47k)2021 Revenue 57 ($74k) Expenses 68 ($80k) Net assets 65 ($40k)2022 Revenue 51 ($66k) Expenses 73 ($86k) Net assets 32 ($19k)2023 Revenue 56 ($73k) Expenses 71 ($83k) Net assets 15 ($9k)2024 Revenue 31 ($40k) Expenses 41 ($49k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (31)Expenses (41)Net assets (0)

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 $40k to $19k (−51%).

$62k
$62k
$62k
$47k
$40k
$19k
$9k
$0
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$9k
’18
−$7k
’19
−$9k
’20
−$7k
’21
−$21k
’22
−$10k
’23
−$9k
’24
1.3
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

Mrs Dale Mandell

President/CEO

Board chair

Justin Nepola

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed98889111110
Joined·+1+0+0+1+5+0+1
No longer listed·2000302
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $75k → $16.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
1
2
1
2
1

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $23k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Volunteer Action Center of Broward County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF MIAMI INC HANDS ON MIAMI raised.

From the IRS filings of VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF MIAMI INC HANDS ON MIAMI’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

VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF MIAMI INC HANDS ON MIAMI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF MIAMI INC HANDS ON MIAMI.

69%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 87% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF MIAMI INC HANDS ON MIAMI draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.

GA
FL

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

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’19
’22
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF MIAMI INC HANDS ON MIAMI

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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Volunteer Action Center of Broward County Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF MIAMI INC HANDS ON MIAMI?
VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF MIAMI INC HANDS ON MIAMI (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,356 to it, the largest being POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION ($90,325). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF MIAMI INC HANDS ON MIAMI have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $130,356 in grants to VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF MIAMI INC HANDS ON MIAMI, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF MIAMI INC HANDS ON MIAMI?
POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF MIAMI INC HANDS ON MIAMI find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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