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Bregal Helps Initiative Inc at a glance

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Bregal Helps Initiative Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$171kCommunity Improvement$153kEducation$124kHealth$110kPhilanthropy$100kHousing & Shelter$92kPublic Safety & Disaster$70kEmployment$67kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$32,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$173k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Neptune Flood for Tampa Bay Watch$32,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Youth in Need: $33k → 5%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CA
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
LA
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$183k · 3 repeat orgs$918k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
23

Total granted

$183k
$886k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
-3%

Still filing today

67%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsInternationalHealthEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NY
    NEW YORK CARES INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $67k · revenue -10%
  • PA
    Produce Alliance Foundation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $58k · revenue -87%
  • LD
    LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $58k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • CF
    CONDUCTOR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • TP
    The Prism Charitable Trust
    one grant, 2023 · $107k
  • AI
    Access Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $67k · revenue -10%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Sharing Excess

Sharing excess (se) is a philadelphia-based nonprofit that uses surplus food as a solution to scarcity. while over 40 million people in the us face food insecurity, nearly 40% of the nation's food supply is going to waste. our mission is…

Food & Nutrition
2
Global Fund for Assistance Inc

The mission of Global Fund for Assistance Inc is to mobilize resources and connect donors to high-impact organizations worldwide, supporting humanitarian relief, poverty reduction, and sustainable development initiatives that improve lives…

Philanthropy
3
Target Hunger Inc

The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…

Human Services
4
City Relief Inc

City relief provides fresh, nutritious meals and essential care items to individuals in need; as well as creating individualized action plans including connections to programs,offering support and encouragement.

Human Services
5
International Crisis Aid Inc

Provide aid to people in need worldwide

Human Services
6
Urban Gleaners

Our mission is to help alleviate hunger by collecting edible, surplus food that would otherwise be thrown away and redistributing it to food insecure children and their families. hunger is less a problem of scarce resources but rather…

Food & Nutrition
7
Kitchens for Good

To transform lives through culinary arts.

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8
Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd

Hot bread kitchen creates economic opportunity through culinary job skills training and placement, food entrepreneurship, and an ecosystem of support for individuals who face barriers to meaningful careers.

Human Services
9
The Kitchen Inc

The kitchen, inc. brings stability and purpose to people who are homeless.

Human Services
10
La Soupe Inc

Bridging the gap between food waste and hunger by rescuing otherwise wasted produce to create delicious and highly-nutritious meals for customers, non-profits and food-insecure families.

Food & Nutrition
11
Feeding Charlotte Inc

Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…

Food & Nutrition
12
Good Food Works Inc
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc; the most unlike its peers is Produce Alliance Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
8/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONDUCTOR FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherCONDUCTOR FOUNDATIONThe Prism Charitable Trust: $106,915 · OtherThe Prism Charitable TrustProduce Alliance Foundation: $58,334 · OtherProduce Alliance FoundationCenter for Global Health: $50,000 · OtherCenter for Global HealthCaron Treatment Centers: $50,000 · OtherCaron Treatment CentersFULL-CIRCLE LEARNING INC: $38,700 · OtherFULL-CIRCLE LEARNING INCAsian Americans Advancing: $35,000 · OtherOxford House Inc: $33,333 · OtherLAGNIAPPE KREWE EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC: $33,333 · OtherNational Council of Young: $30,377 · OtherGLOBAL OPPORTUNITY FUND: $30,000 · OtherTAMPA BAY WATCH INC: $32,000 · Other+4 more: $40,424 · Other+4 moreNEW YORK CARES INC: $66,667 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK C…THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $33,333 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING…BLACK GIRLS RUN FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsAgape Community Center: $33,333 · Recreation & SportsLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $58,334 · HealthTHE JARED BOX PROJECT: $10,000 · HealthAccess Inc: $66,667 · EmploymentThurgood Marshall College Fund: $50,000 · EducationYOUTH IN NEED: $33,333 · Human ServicesCRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER: $7,500 · Human ServicesKRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC: $3,334 · Human Services
Other$688,416Philanthropy$100,000Recreation & Sports$83,333Health$68,334Employment$66,667Education$50,000Human Services$44,167

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK CARES INC: $66,667 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAccess Inc: $66,667 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetProduce Alliance Foundation: $58,334 over 2y, 21% of budgetLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $58,334 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBLACK GIRLS RUN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFULL-CIRCLE LEARNING INC: $38,700 over 1y, 14% of budgetYOUTH IN NEED: $33,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $33,333 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAgape Community Center: $33,333 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTAMPA BAY WATCH INC: $32,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL OPPORTUNITY FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE JARED BOX PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $8,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHIGH ATLAS FOUNDATION: $3,424 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC: $3,334 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE11.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bregal Helps Initiative Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bregal Helps Initiative Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Oxford House Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Bregal Helps Initiative Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bregal Helps Initiative Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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