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HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC

EIN 62-1585366 NASHVILLE, TN

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Revenue 2024
$8,161,526
Expenses 2024
$6,598,390

Program services were 86.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q330
Classification
1000
Street
455 MCNALLY DR

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Our mission is to aid, equip, and empower those in need around the world in the name of Jesus Christ so they might experience God's healing grace. We fulfill this mission through the following programs and ministries: Clean Water, Agriculture: Fighting Hunger, M.A.G.I. boxes (Making a Godly Impact), Women of Hope, Education, Disaster Recovery, and Medical Aid.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Provide relief services that reduce human suffering in the world. Provide clean drinking water through drilling water wells; collect, ship, and distribute, food, clothing, medical supplies and equipment; provide agriculture and education training and supplies.

  • DISASTER RELIEF ASSISTANCE. In 2024 HHI responded to disasters in Kenya, Brazil, Haiti, St. Vincent, Grenada, India, Uganda, Israel/Palestine, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Turkey. This included shipping containers of food, providing food subsidies, helping rebuild houses and community centers, providing training, and providing temporary shelters. A drought in Eastern and Southern Africa created a critical need for food relief. Flooding in Brazil, Kenya, and India created needs for basic humanitarian supplies. Hurricane Beryl's destruction created needs in dozens of Caribbean communities. Previous disasters have shifted needs from aid to recovery efforts. A drought in East Africa and Southern Africa created a critical need for food relief. Containers of food and food subsidies were provided to many countries in Africa. WOMEN OF HOPE. Projects in many different countries are training, empowering, and aiding, women. Women receive training in basic business skills of budgeting, business planning and savings strategies. Revolving Loans and Savings Groups are making a huge impact.

    Expenses $1,767,532 · Revenue $608,378

  • WATER DEVELOPMENT - Providing clean drinking water to people in under-developed areas of the world. Water Development Initiatives in 2024: 231 new Water Wells were drilled in 16 countries; 39 broken water wells were repaired and returned to a status of fully functioning. WALK4WATER: 67 Walk4Water fundraising events were conducted in 23 states with over 5,550 registered participants. The events generated funds to sponsor 160 new water wells.

    Expenses $2,325,228 · Revenue $1,972,295

  • M.A.G.I - (Making A Godly Impact) Christians from 212 organizations across the United States pack gift boxes to be delivered to children in need around the world. The M.A.G.I Project distributed over 26,400 boxes to children in 10 countries: Zambia, Texas/Mexico border, Venezuela, Ukraine, Brazil, Honduras, Ecuador, Arizona (Navajo Reservation), Haiti, and Dominican Republic. "Sponsor a Box" provided funds for our in-country representatives to purchase products for M.A.G.I boxes locally, which supports the local economy and saves on shipping costs.

    Expenses $1,135,089 · Revenue $1,075,387

  • AGRICULTURE - Healing Hands International provides agricultural workshops around the world teaching communities around the world through local church leaders how to provide for their nutritional needs. Over the course of two days trainees are taught survival gardening techniques using drip irrigation, raised garden beds, composting and mulching, seed transplanting and basic garden management. The goal is to empower these individuals to provide for themselves; to offer a more long-term solution by giving them a hand up, instead of just giving them a hand out. In 2024, HHI trainers completed 477 workshops training 23,200 people. Since its inception in 2000, over 107,700 people have received training in basic sustainable gardening techniques.

    Expenses $450,898 · Revenue $213,491

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.

  • Art Woods

    President

    Total calculated
    $177,502
    From this org
    $177,502
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $159,002
    Bonus
    $18,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $177,502
  • Bruce Beck

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Burt Nowers

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Bill Merry

    Board Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Eric Bearly

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Rita Cochrane

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Barry Pickering

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Lon Raby

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Randy Steger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jeff Whitehorn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Fortune Mhlanga

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Chris Gingles

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,161,526
    Expenses
    $6,598,390
    Contributions
    $8,026,470
    Grants paid
    $3,589,550
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,525,352
    Expenses
    $6,576,282
    Contributions
    $6,389,861
    Grants paid
    $3,710,017
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,499,773
    Expenses
    $5,737,450
    Contributions
    $7,452,483
    Grants paid
    $3,078,880

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
    $10,611,098
    Expenses
    $4,789,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,095,552
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,320,622
    Expenses
    $4,114,770
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,341,056
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,803,013
    Expenses
    $4,262,761
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,215,845
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,431,050
    Expenses
    $3,996,347
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,582,861
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,038,340
    Expenses
    $3,702,740
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,049,095
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,387,391
    Expenses
    $3,958,530
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,811,185
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,709,971
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,136,237
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,586,494
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,574,453
  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,370,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,373,884

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.