· Private foundation
Clara & Kurt Hellmuth Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $4,000 |
| CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL | $3,000 |
| FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES | $2,500 |
| THE POWER OF YOU TEENS | $2,000 |
| PUBLICOLOR INC | $2,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| CHAI LIFELINE INC | $2,000 |
| ST MARYS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM | $1,500 |
| NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC | $1,500 |
| GROUNDSWELL | $1,500 |
| BRAVE ENOUGH TO FAIL | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +81%- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +58%
- FYFRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SSSIXTH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +34%
- GHGREENWICH HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +67%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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We amplify youth and community power by inspiring, guiding, and advocating for youth to determine their college, career, and leadership futures.
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To provide a safe, affordable and comprehensive program of high-quality early childhood education, parental and family support, as well as academic enrichment and recreational programs.
The partnership for after school education is a child-focused organization that promotes and supports quality after school programs, particularly those serving young people from underserved communities. the partnership for after school…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Book Fairies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Creating Opportunities for All. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE POWER OF YOU TEENS INC ↗
- Who funds BEHIND THE BOOK INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVE ENOUGH TO FAIL INC ↗
- Who funds CITYARTS INC ↗
- Who funds South Bronx United Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds Child Care Council of Nassau Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BOOK FAIRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL INC ↗
- Who funds BRONXWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLICOLOR INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SIXTH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOUSE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Pinkerton Foundation · Morgan Stanley Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Nora Roberts Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Clara & Kurt Hellmuth Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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