The Sanders Hand
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823423353
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Manvel, TX, USA
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,568
- Expenses
- $87,116
- Assets
- $23,560
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sebastian Sanders (Executive Director & Founder)
People named in this filing
- Sebastian Sanders (Executive Director & Founder)
- Connie Leon
- Michael Oyetunji
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Sanders Hand is a nonprofit organization empowering youth and young adults ages 1225 with real-world skills, mentorship, and opportunities that build financial confidence, leadership, and long-term economic mobility
What it reported doing in 2025
The Sanders Hand is a nonprofit organization empowering youth and young adults ages 1225 with real-world skills, mentorship, and opportunities that build financial confidence, leadership, and long-term economic mobility.??
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 12
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.8%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -38.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -61.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 10% of revenue deployed · 12.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.