Lifting Hands International
Salt Lake City, UT · EIN 81-1708977. Reported 63 grants totalling $33.4M to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Lifting Hands International, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q33) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 58% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $95,570. Half of what it reported fell between $22,544 and $294,738; the smallest was $5,580 and the largest $6,446,526. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
48 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $32.3M in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helping Hand for Relief & Development Inc | Southfield, MI | $19.4M | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Church World Service Inc | Elkhart, IN | $3,843,243 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bloom Africa Inc | Atlanta, GA | $1,214,551 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tabithas Way | Spanish Fork, UT | $1,100,290 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charity Anywhere Inc | Bountiful, UT | $1,052,831 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Granite Education Foundation Inc | S Salt Lake, UT | $754,275 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Near East Refugee Aid Inc | Washington, DC | $720,648 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| International Rescue Committee Inc | New York, NY | $653,626 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Modeh Ani | Sherman Oaks, CA | $623,926 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gathering Humanity Inc | Tempe, AZ | $543,217 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Teambrownsville Inc | Brownsville, TX | $375,155 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Icna Relief USA Programs Inc | New Hyde Park, NY | $294,738 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Refugee Jumpstart Coaching | Venice, CA | $278,710 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| For Peace Inc | Bluffdale, UT | $220,657 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Stand With Ukraine | Bountiful, UT | $218,268 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Catholic Community Services of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $215,730 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ghana Make a Difference Inc | Star, ID | $149,730 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Soles 4 Souls | Nashville, TN | $143,982 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asian Association of Utah | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $142,767 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Welcome Center Inc | Davie, FL | $138,309 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| CASA Alitas | Tucson, AZ | $124,816 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Venezuelan American Alliance Inc | Miramar, FL | $119,314 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Share Our Spare | Chicago, IL | $119,136 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah Valley Refugees | Provo, UT | $111,400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc | Brownsville, TX | $103,561 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Team Humanity | Brownsville, PA | $87,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Middle East Childrens Alliance | Berkeley, CA | $75,669 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center for Mind-Body Medicine | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| International Network for Aid Relief and Assistance Inc | Wassaic, NY | $71,050 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Amar International Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | $67,960 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Al Otro Lado Inc | San Ysidro, CA | $58,979 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Women of the World | South Jordan, UT | $50,685 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hearts Knit Together | Lindon, UT | $42,047 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mission Border Hope | Eagle Pass, TX | $34,910 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Footprint Project | New Orleans, LA | $31,880 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cache Refugee and Immigrant Connection | Logan, UT | $26,323 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Odyssey House Inc | New York, NY | $25,653 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Kanosh Band of the Paitue Indians | Kanosh, UT | $20,597 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $13,548 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ward Refugee Foundation | Draper, UT | $8,502 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Food for Families | W Sacramento, CA | $7,208 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hope Across Borders | Riverton, UT | $5,580 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
15 of 42 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Helping Hand for Relief and Development
SUPPLIES FOR REFUGEES IN CAMPS IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES - Church World Service
SUPPLIES FOR REFUGEES SEEKING ASSISTANCE AT SHELTERS IN THE US - Irc
SUPPLIES FOR REFUGEES RESETTLED IN UTAH - Refugee Jumpstart
GRANT TO EMPOWER REFUGEES IN REBUILDING CAREERS AND THRIVE IN NEW COMMUNITIES - Forpeace
SUPPLIES FOR IDPS IN UKRAINE - Inara
GRANT TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY SUPPLIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 of 42 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | $7,194,748 | $798,890 |
| 2022 | 6 | $7,745,167 | $157,578 |
| 2023 | 25 | $7,953,414 | $31,725 |
| 2024 | 29 | $10.5M | $114,365 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
58% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $95,570 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Michigan.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Lifting Hands International's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 29 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1167 W Brooklyn Ave, Salt Lake City, UT, 84104.
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