Both Hands Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261879659
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- Brentwood, TN, United States
- Phone
- 615-212-8824
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,798,965
- Expenses
- $4,468,021
- Assets
- $5,740,618
- Liabilities
- $117,965
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeffrey L Olson (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jeffrey L Olson (President): $140,536 total reported compensation
- Jared DeLong (Executive Dir.): $122,469 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our Mission To fulfill James 1:27 by serving orphans, widows, and Christian adoptive families. ico-about-2. To help Christian adoptive families fund their adoptions by coordinating a service project fixing up a widow’s home. ico-about-3 Our Vision. To fulfill James 1:27 by serving orphans, widows, and Christian adoptive families. ico-about-2 Our Purpose.
What it reported doing in 2025
Both Hands provides grants that empower Christian families to overcome the financial barriers of adoption, ensuring more children can find a place in a loving home. By organizing home maintenance and repair projects for widows in need, Both Hands creates a practical avenue for volunteers to live out the mandate of James 1:27. To date, Both Hands has completed 1,652 projects across 46 states, serving 1,890 widows and helping 1,814 children join forever families. Each project utilizes a volunteer team that performs light repairs, painting, and landscaping for a widow while simultaneously raising funds for adoption and global orphan care. Through these efforts, $25.5 million has been raised to support this mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 75% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.4%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 76.4% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.