Connecticut · Private foundation
Claire L Helsing Foundation
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.
- $147k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $14,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Claire L Helsing Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $147k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $132k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $145k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $152k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $140k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $121k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $112k | 7% |
| FY2017 | 34 | $125k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $87,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Connecticut Legal Services Inc | $69,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Building One Community Corp | $58,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Norwalk Community College Foundation Inc | $55,500 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc | $53,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Ferguson Library | $46,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc | $43,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Domus Kids Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc | $34,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($301k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Claire L Helsing Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Impact 100 Fairfield County · Garden Homes Fund · Lone Pine Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts
How this is measured
About Claire L Helsing Foundation
- How much does Claire L Helsing Foundation give?
- Claire L Helsing Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $147,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Claire L Helsing Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (14%), Education (13%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Claire L Helsing Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Connecticut Foodshare Inc ($88k), Connecticut Legal Services Inc ($70k), Building One Community Corp ($59k).
- Does Claire L Helsing Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Claire L Helsing Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Claire L Helsing Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Stamford Rotary Trust Fund, The Pitney Bowes Foundation.
- Where is Claire L Helsing Foundation based?
- Claire L Helsing Foundation is based in CT.
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