Hands United

Overview

Mission

Hands Uniteds mission is to reduce language deprivation among Deaf and hard-of-hearing children in immigrant families by addressing the language and cultural barriers that often prevent effective communication and access to essential services. We empower families by providing comprehensive support that includes multilingual American Sign Language classes English ASL instruction for newly arrived Deaf individuals enrichment workshops school and IEP advocacy immigration and legal resource connections community support programs and employment readiness services. In addition we strengthen the professional ecosystem that serves Deaf communities by offering interpreter and translation services professional development workshops and media resource development. As part of our commitment to equitable access we also support and provide pathways for the certification of foreign sign language interpretersparticularly for those coming from countries where no formal certification syste

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 63
• Transparency & Controls: 82
• Sustainability: 35
• Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 61.6% of revenue deployed · 64.2% of spending went to programs
• Governance: Filed governance answers
• Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $22K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
• Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
• Schedules: 2 filed schedules
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• 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.

• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.