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LEND A HAND FOUNDATION INC OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

EIN 94-3293372 OAKLAND, CA

Revenue 2025
$605,622
Expenses 2025
$541,801

Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P99
Classification
1000
Street
8393 CAPWELL DR STE 220

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

To enhance the quality of life of underserved children, youth and families in Oakland and Alameda County California by offering educational support, financial literacy, health and wellness resources, basic needs, and cultural and community engagement activities.

  • JOY OF GIVING - Days of giving from November 23 - December 20 Over 300 individuals were served a healthy meal at the Joy of Giving event on December 14. Children received new coats, toys and much more. Distributed over 300 turkeys and pantry staples to families in need, ensuring meals for Thanksgiving and beyond. Purchased and distributed 442 coats and pajamas to children, keeping them warm during the colder months. Provided gifts to 55 teens, 110 families, and 75 seniors across multiple events, including Winter Wonderland and various community outreach initiatives. Delivered over 200 complete outfits to students at Madison Primary Academy. Delivered toys and stuffed animals to Childrens Hospital, Kaiser Hospital, and Markham school as well as meals to senior facilities.COMMUNITY CLOSETSThe Lend A Hand Foundation supports five Oakland Unified School District(OUSD) schools, serving approximately 750 underserved students eachquarterand often more frequentlyto help remove barriers that hinder schoolattendance, participation, and academic success. Our Community Closets provide essential items to students, including many who are unhoused, and, at times, extend support to their families. These resources include:* Clothing: Coats, shirts, pants, dresses, and more* Hygiene Essentials: Toiletries, laundry supplies* Comfort Items: Blankets, backpacks* School Supplies: Notebooks, pencils, and other educational materialsBy ensuring access to these necessities, we help students focus on learning andthriving in school.BACK TO SCHOOL - Back to School provided backpacks of school supplies to 12,000 underserved students.OTHER COMMUNITY SUPPORT ACTIVITIESContinued providing resources to variousschools (5) Frick, Madison Primary, Madison Upper, ManzanitaCommunity, West Oakland Middle* Provided snacks to Frick Middle School for several months to over300 middle school students* Provided over 1,200 pairs of shoes to McKinney Vento Students andothers in need* Held Resource Fairs for low-income families quarterly* Escorted families to Golden State Warrior games and other activities* Held skills activity at Reach Academy for lower grade to learn projectskills* Attended Oakland Unified School District Trades Fair* Held special Women and Childrens Resource Fair

    Expenses $487,621 · Grants $263,411

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.

  • Dee Johnson

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $72,000
    From this org
    $72,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Charlotte Potente

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lorelei Self

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dorothy Fields

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carolyn Cornelius-Wilkins

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jacob Pessah

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sherri Heller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Warren Chu

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tanya Green

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Today Self-Tyson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Taj Reid

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shante Harding

    Director

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $605,622
    Expenses
    $541,801
    Contributions
    $605,576
    Grants paid
    $263,411
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $473,847
    Expenses
    $488,116
    Contributions
    $476,839
    Grants paid
    $278,201
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $693,821
    Expenses
    $694,597
    Contributions
    $693,821
    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
    $439,187
    Expenses
    $407,123
    Assets (EOY)
    $95,539

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $306,925
    Expenses
    $290,375
    Assets (EOY)
    $139,260

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $221,655
    Expenses
    $215,212
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,954

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

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2024, reinstated 15 May 2024.

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.