Many Hands for Haiti
Transforming together, to be love in action, in a broken world.
Many Hands for Haiti
EIN: 26-4480982
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We want to see long-term sustainable change in the brokenness of the world. We do this by generously growing impact. We ignite generosity through our world-class thrift stores, we grow community through our Love in Action roadmap, and we invite people on the impact journey to experience God’s global heart for the world. Globally, we focus on the Caribbean, with operations in Pignon, Haiti and Abaco, Bahamas. Haiti is a country with extreme political and economic turmoil, with a national poverty rate of 87.6% ($6.85/day), and extreme poverty at 30.3% ($2.15/day) - World Bank. Abaco, Bahamas was ravaged by Hurricane Dorian in 2019, followed by Covid-19, stifling the needed rebuilding process. Extreme conditions exist for the island’s people, with a large migrant population in extreme poverty. Through relationships, we step into the middle of these opportunities, providing leadership and pathways for sustainable family and community development, with ownership at the local level.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Mil Jou
“Mil Jou” in creole means 1000 Days. The Mil Jou program focuses on the First 1000 Days of a child’s life (birth through age 2) and provides critical early intervention and education for health, spiritual development, protection, brain development and nutrition to provide the best possible start in life for these precious little ones.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of meals served or provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Families, Infants and toddlers, Children, Caregivers, Pregnant people
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
2022 - we weren't able to get one of our food containers out of PAP for our school feeding program, and school started 2 mos late in the fall 2021 - 689,282 meals were for emergency earthquake relief
Number of clients participating in educational programs
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Caregivers, Families, Orphans, Parents
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of jobs created and maintained
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Families, Teachers, Farmers, Domestic workers
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of safe homes built
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Family relationships
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of medical assistance tools distributed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
People with physical disabilities, People with vision impairments, People with learning disabilities
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
Download strategic planLearn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Creating long-term sustainable change is not an easy task. But we not only believe it is possible, we believe it’s why we have been called to serve in this capacity. To see this change, we intentionally walk with families and communities, leading them in transformation; the old is gone and the new has come. They are creating a new story for themselves, their families, and community. Our goal is to strengthen families, building a solid foundation for them and their communities. We want to prepare them for a time when we will end our services and investment in the family and they, in turn, will need to invest in one another.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Through our love in action roadmap, we provide a foundation for lives to be transformed forever. We do this through 3 steps: rebuilding the foundation, restoring the family unit, and rebuilding the community. We implement programs to walk people through and empower them in each of these steps. For example, our First 1000 Days program helps rebuild the foundation of children's lives by providing them and their caregiver with nutrition, education, and safe homes during the first 1,000 days of life. In Haiti, we’ve reduced five-year-old stunting from 34% to 1.8% for those who have been faithful in the program.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have quite a large reach in both the Caribbean and in the U.S. In Haiti, we have four campuses, with a yearly reach of 20,000 people per year, with this growing to seven campus by 2027. In Abaco, our organization is recently established, reaching 1,000 people a year. In the U.S. we have five for-profit thrift stores that help sustain our programming, seeing over 200,000 customer count each year. In addition, we have a large network due to our large donor database. We send U.S. IMPACT teams to the Caribbean, accounting for 300 people a year.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since our inception in 2008, Many Hands has distributed over 10 million meals, educated over 1,200 children, provided 6,446 people with safe homes, trained 240 community leaders, and distributed 555 Personal Energy Transportation carts for those with lower limb disabilities. Daily, we walk with over 500 families on the Love in Action roadmap.
Each year, we have over 30,000 hours of volunteer time, involving people at all levels of the organization and sending us much money to programming as possible. We’ve also recycled or repurposed 1,797,590 items through our thrift stores, being good stewards of our donations.
It has also been a core principal of ours to get as much money to programming as possible. We are proud to say that our administrative cost percentage of only 11.8 percent, with our thrift store model covering most of these administrative costs.
Financials
Financial documents
Download audited financialsRevenue vs. expenses: breakdown
Liquidity in 2022 info
3.50
Months of cash in 2022 info
1.7
Fringe rate in 2022 info
9%
Funding sources info
Assets & liabilities info
Financial data
Many Hands for Haiti
Balance sheetFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
The balance sheet gives a snapshot of the financial health of an organization at a particular point in time. An organization's total assets should generally exceed its total liabilities, or it cannot survive long, but the types of assets and liabilities must also be considered. For instance, an organization's current assets (cash, receivables, securities, etc.) should be sufficient to cover its current liabilities (payables, deferred revenue, current year loan, and note payments). Otherwise, the organization may face solvency problems. On the other hand, an organization whose cash and equivalents greatly exceed its current liabilities might not be putting its money to best use.
Fiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
This snapshot of Many Hands for Haiti’s financial trends applies Nonprofit Finance Fund® analysis to data hosted by GuideStar. While it highlights the data that matter most, remember that context is key – numbers only tell part of any story.
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Business model indicators
Profitability info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Unrestricted surplus (deficit) before depreciation | -$44,342 | $314,210 | $857,901 | $948,134 | $70,029 |
As % of expenses | -1.5% | 11.3% | 29.0% | 21.6% | 1.2% |
Unrestricted surplus (deficit) after depreciation | -$111,885 | $243,726 | $784,207 | $866,640 | -$41,747 |
As % of expenses | -3.7% | 8.5% | 25.9% | 19.3% | -0.7% |
Revenue composition info | |||||
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Total revenue (unrestricted & restricted) | $3,130,735 | $3,142,720 | $3,628,894 | $5,112,564 | $5,552,746 |
Total revenue, % change over prior year | 13.3% | 0.4% | 15.5% | 40.9% | 8.6% |
Program services revenue | 14.7% | 8.4% | 2.8% | 2.4% | 2.1% |
Membership dues | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Investment income | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% |
Government grants | 0.0% | 0.0% | 4.9% | 0.2% | 0.0% |
All other grants and contributions | 85.1% | 89.7% | 86.4% | 97.0% | 97.4% |
Other revenue | 0.0% | 1.8% | 5.7% | 0.1% | 0.6% |
Expense composition info | |||||
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Total expenses before depreciation | $2,969,897 | $2,792,205 | $2,955,431 | $4,397,413 | $5,679,217 |
Total expenses, % change over prior year | 2.4% | -6.0% | 5.8% | 48.8% | 29.1% |
Personnel | 23.1% | 27.8% | 34.4% | 38.9% | 38.0% |
Professional fees | 0.5% | 3.6% | 2.5% | 2.7% | 1.8% |
Occupancy | 16.7% | 16.3% | 19.4% | 16.6% | 19.0% |
Interest | 1.0% | 0.8% | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
Pass-through | 16.9% | 17.0% | 15.6% | 17.1% | 15.6% |
All other expenses | 41.7% | 34.4% | 27.6% | 24.6% | 25.6% |
Full cost components (estimated) info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Total expenses (after depreciation) | $3,037,440 | $2,862,689 | $3,029,125 | $4,478,907 | $5,790,993 |
One month of savings | $247,491 | $232,684 | $246,286 | $366,451 | $473,268 |
Debt principal payment | $108,472 | $139,995 | $94,941 | $53,589 | $0 |
Fixed asset additions | $0 | $0 | $0 | $214,022 | $396,222 |
Total full costs (estimated) | $3,393,403 | $3,235,368 | $3,370,352 | $5,112,969 | $6,660,483 |
Capital structure indicators
Liquidity info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Months of cash | 1.5 | 2.6 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 1.7 |
Months of cash and investments | 1.5 | 2.6 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 1.7 |
Months of estimated liquid unrestricted net assets | -1.4 | -0.2 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 2.5 |
Balance sheet composition info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Cash | $375,559 | $601,290 | $1,015,249 | $1,314,535 | $824,485 |
Investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Receivables | $1,153 | $2,996 | $0 | $3,037 | $0 |
Gross land, buildings, equipment (LBE) | $857,254 | $872,456 | $1,068,927 | $1,282,949 | $1,678,987 |
Accumulated depreciation (as a % of LBE) | 18.4% | 26.1% | 42.2% | 41.5% | 38.3% |
Liabilities (as a % of assets) | 32.8% | 22.0% | 12.1% | 7.5% | 9.6% |
Unrestricted net assets | $358,997 | $602,723 | $1,386,930 | $2,253,570 | $2,211,823 |
Temporarily restricted net assets | $577,616 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Permanently restricted net assets | $0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Total restricted net assets | $577,616 | $613,921 | $429,483 | $196,500 | $0 |
Total net assets | $936,613 | $1,216,644 | $1,816,413 | $2,450,070 | $2,211,823 |
Key data checks
Key data checks info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Material data errors | No | No | No | No | No |
Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
Documents
Chief Executive Officer
Tim Brand
Tim Brand is the founder and Executive Leader of Many Hands for Haiti (MH4H). Starting the organization in 2008, with Tim coming on full time in 2011. He lives in Pella with his wife and two children.
Number of employees
Source: IRS Form 990
Many Hands for Haiti
Officers, directors, trustees, and key employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
Many Hands for Haiti
Highest paid employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
Many Hands for Haiti
Board of directorsas of 03/02/2023
Board of directors data
Eric Recker
Recker Dental
Eric Recker
Recker Dental
Greg Ebeling
Pella Community Schools
Tim Van Maanen
Kate Guess
Vermeer Corporation
Kendra Meyer
Medtronic
Jim Loggins
Jenny Sorheim
Lean Technologies
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