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SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL

EIN 95-3797996 SAN DIEGO, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2024
$1,673,315
Expenses 2024
$1,700,133

Program services were 84.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q330
Classification
7000
Street
4579 MISSION GORGE PL

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL MISSION IS TO AID THE POOREST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND STRIVE TO ENCOURAGE IN THEM SELF-SUFFICIENCY, DIGNITY, AND HOPE BY PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, FOOD, CLOTHING, SHELTER, MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, AND SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL MISSION IS TO AID THE POOREST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

  • EDUCATION PROGRAM:SHI SUPPORTED THE EDUCATION, INCLUDING AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS, OF ABOUT 7,500 CHILDREN BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL AID, CLASSROOM SUPPLIES, BACKPACKS, AND OTHER LEARNING MATERIALS IN IMPOVERISHED AREAS.

    Expenses $221,705 · Grants $221,705

  • FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT AID PROGRAM:HUMANITARIAN AID WAS MADE AVAILABLE TO ABOUT 724,000 PEOPLE IN NEED. THE AID INCLUDED BASIC LIFE NECESSITIES SUCH AS FOOD, WATER, CLOTHING, BLANKETS, EMERGENCY SHELTERS, SANDBAGS, AND OTHER NEEDED RESOURCES.

    Expenses $1,169,363 · Grants $1,169,363

  • MEDICAL AID PROGRAM:MEDICAL AID WAS PROVIDED TO OVER 19,000 IMPOVERISHED PEOPLE IN MEXICO. THE PROGRAMS INCLUDED FUNDING SERVICES FOR SURGERIES, MEDICATIONS, AND PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE. THE PROGRAMS ADDRESS A WIDE RANGE OF MEDICAL TREATMENTS SUCH AS DENTAL CARE, EYE CARE, INTERNAL MEDICINE, PEDIATRICS, CANCER TREATMENT, RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERIES, AND HOSPICE.

    Expenses $40,800 · Grants $40,800

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Terrence R Caster

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Barbara Culver

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tom Kearney

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Maria Frausto Chavez

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,673,315
    Expenses
    $1,700,133
    Contributions
    $1,673,315
    Grants paid
    $1,431,868
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,815,534
    Expenses
    $1,744,851
    Contributions
    $1,815,534
    Grants paid
    $1,490,823
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $324,609
    Expenses
    $1,553,214
    Contributions
    $324,822
    Grants paid
    $1,284,756

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,695,100
    Expenses
    $1,385,169
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,397,314
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,983,205
    Expenses
    $1,860,255
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,087,383
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,870,275
    Expenses
    $2,005,594
    Assets (EOY)
    $964,851
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,786,307
    Expenses
    $1,938,038
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,099,752
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,847,043
    Expenses
    $1,997,922
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,251,991
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,846,963
    Expenses
    $1,429,489
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,402,873
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,924,864
    Expenses
    $1,786,286
    Assets (EOY)
    $985,152
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,978,459
    Expenses
    $2,049,829
    Assets (EOY)
    $853,092

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.