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HANDS ACROSS THE SEA INC

EIN 20-5897380 BOSTON, MA

Revenue 2025
$514,433
Expenses 2025
$401,388

Program services were 65.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E99
Classification
1000
Street
68 HARRISON AVE

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 · 2025

Mission

THE ORGANIZATION IS DEDICATED TO RAISING THE LITERACY LEVELS OF CARIBBEAN CHILDREN BY SENDING NEW BOOKS, CREATING LIBRARIES AND FOSTERING ONGOING SUSTAINABILITY WITH MENTORING AND EDUCATOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

  • IN 2025, HANDS ACROSS THE SEA DISTRIBUTED 15,097 NEW BOOKS TO CHILDREN ACROSS ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, DOMINICA, GRENADA, ST. KITTS AND NEVIS, SAINT LUCIA, AND ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES. THROUGH THESE EFFORTS, THE ORGANIZATION REACHED 10,267 STUDENTS WITH HIGH-QUALITY, CURATED BOOK COLLECTIONS AND SUSTAINED LITERACY PROGRAMMING. PROGRAM ACTIVITIES INCLUDED THE CONTINUED STRENGTHENING OF THE CLASS PROGRAM THROUGH ACTIVE SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND ONGOING SUPPORT, THE EXPANSION OF THE EARLY PAGES PROGRAMME TO ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, AND THE DELIVERY OF TARGETED REMEDIAL READING AND SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS COLLECTIONS TO SCHOOLS WITH IDENTIFIED GAPS. THROUGH THESE COMBINED EFFORTS, ALONG WITH DIRECT ENGAGEMENT AND PROGRAM OVERSIGHT PROVIDED BY IN-COUNTRY LITERACY LINKS, HANDS ACROSS THE SEA SUPPORTED TEACHERS, STRENGTHENED CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION, AND SUSTAINED LITERACY DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE REGION.

    Expenses $263,121

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • AMANDA SHERLIP

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR thru April

    Total calculated
    $52,400
    From this org
    $49,067
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,333
    Hours/week
    40

  • ANGELA WEST BLANK

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR interim

    Total calculated
    $4,530
    From this org
    $4,530
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • BENJAMIN ENGLE

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR start May

    Total calculated
    $90,699
    From this org
    $88,654
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,045
    Hours/week
    40

  • EMILY COMBS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • SARA DORMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • JAMELYN EBELACKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LEAH GARRATT

    DIRECTOR - FORMER CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JENNIFER MCCARTHY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • KOREN NORTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VIVIANE SCOTT JD

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • YAH-HANNA JENKINS LEYS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEPHANE LAROCHE

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $514,433
    Expenses
    $401,388
    Contributions
    $511,496
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $311,856
    Expenses
    $420,546
    Contributions
    $308,398
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $590,116
    Expenses
    $690,495
    Contributions
    $587,496
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $679,884
    Expenses
    $494,883
    Contributions
    $679,808
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $563,515
    Expenses
    $419,673
    Assets (EOY)
    $416,223

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $590,175
    Expenses
    $544,413
    Assets (EOY)
    $307,274

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $566,866
    Expenses
    $485,928
    Assets (EOY)
    $232,412

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $504,932
    Expenses
    $559,372
    Assets (EOY)
    $151,989

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $441,548
    Expenses
    $548,379
    Assets (EOY)
    $207,400

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $658,067
    Expenses
    $575,096
    Assets (EOY)
    $321,704

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $610,615
    Expenses
    $468,979
    Assets (EOY)
    $253,158

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $438,692
    Expenses
    $487,396
    Assets (EOY)
    $95,144

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $187,169
    Expenses
    $152,320
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,820

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2007

Tax period
1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007
Principal officer
Tom J Linskey
Mailing address
291 Elm StreetSouth Dartmouth MA 02748
Website
www.HandsAccrossTheSea.net

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.