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Elhp Helps

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$985
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$8kEducation$7kHuman Services$6kFood & Nutrition$3kEnvironment$1kHousing & Shelter$1kArts & Culture$1kCommunity Improvement$775Other$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$503
Median grant
2
States reached
$62k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH$985
SAFE ALLIANCE$556
PRESSLEY RIDGE$541
ALWAYS B SMILING$503
JAMIE'S DREAM TEAM$500
YOUNG ADULT SURVIVORS UNITED$498
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$420
AIRBNBORG$250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISES NURSERY: $521 → 11%AUSTIN DIAPER BANK: $893 → 10%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROG: $468 → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $1k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE: $424 → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $478 → 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.
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14k · 7 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +528% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
19

Total granted

$14k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+528%
+10%

Still filing today

29%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • EC
    ENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER SCHOOL
    3× · 2021–2024 · $5k
  • JD
    JAMIE'S DREAM TEAM
    3× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue -1%
  • AL
    AUSTIN LAKES HOSPITAL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k

Funded once

  • PH
    PENN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • HN
    HELLO NEIGHBORgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue ×15
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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.

1
Health Care for the Homeless Inc

Health care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.

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2
Authoracare Collective

Authoracare collective empowers people to be active participants in their care journey, enabling them to live on their own terms through personalized support for mind, body, and spirit.

Human Services
3
Community Human Services Corporation

Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.

Human Services
4
Crisis Nursery

Crisis nursery creates an "island of safety" dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect by providing 24-hour emergency care for children and support to strengthen families in crisis.

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5
The Children's Home of Pittsburgh

The children's home of pittsburgh, established in 1893, is an independent, non-profit licensed organization whose purpose is to promote the health and well-being of infants and children through services which establish and strengthen the…

Health
6
Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.

Health
7
Youable Emotional Health Services

Youable emotional health empowers people of all ages to live an emotionally healthy life.we are a team of accountable, decisive members who want to make a dynamic and lasting impact in their communities. youable is a passionate and…

Health
8
Neighborcare Health

The organization is a community-based, non-profit agency that operates 31 medical, dental, and school-based health centers throughout seattle and provides services to over 57,008 people each year. our clinics are located throughout areas…

Health
9
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc

Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…

Health
10
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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11
Kidspeace Children's Hospital

Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…

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12
Lydia Place

To disrupt the cycle of homelessness and nurture healing and belonging for current & future generations.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Resilience Project; the most unlike its peers is The Jared Box Project. 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

18 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. 18 of the 31 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,306 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER SCHOOLAUSTIN LAKES HOSPITAL: $1,991 · OtherAUSTIN LAKES HOSPITALPENN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL: $1,815 · OtherPENN HILLS HIGH SCHOOLRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $1,594 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEIndividual grant recipient: $1,092 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE: $819 · OtherPRESSLEY RIDGE OPERATIONS CENTER: $805 · OtherDREAM DRIVE: $644 · Other+8 more: $3,372 · Other+8 moreHELLO NEIGHBOR: $1,433 · Human ServicesHELLO NEIGHBORAUSTIN DIAPER BANK: $893 · Human ServicesAUSTIN DIAPER BA…GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $521 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPO…JEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY: $478 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'S PLACE…COMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS INC: $468 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY EMERGE…COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $424 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY EMERGE…ALWAYS B SMILING INC: $1,424 · HealthALWAYS B SMI…412 THRIVE: $816 · Health412 THRIVEYOUNG ADULT SURVIVORS UNITED: $498 · HealthYOUNG ADULT …George Mark Childrens Fund: $209 · HealthGeorge Mark …THE JARED BOX PROJECT: $199 · HealthTHE JARED BO…JAMIE'S DREAM TEAM: $2,124 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $985 · EducationWEST END RESIDENCES HDFC INC DBA HOMEWARD NYC: $939 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT: $775 · Community Improvement
Other$17,438Human Services$4,217Health$3,146Philanthropy$2,124Education$985Housing & Shelter$939Community Improvement$775

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAMIE'S DREAM TEAM: $2,124 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHELLO NEIGHBOR: $1,433 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALWAYS B SMILING INC: $1,424 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $985 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST END RESIDENCES HDFC INC DBA HOMEWARD NYC: $939 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN DIAPER BANK: $893 over 1y, 0.1% of budget412 THRIVE: $816 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT: $775 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $556 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESSLEY RIDGE: $541 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $521 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $497 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY: $478 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS INC: $468 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $424 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $209 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JARED BOX PROJECT: $199 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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Richard King Mellon F…Hillman Family Founda…Massey Charitable Tru…Aj and Sigismunda Pal…The Blackbaud Giving …American Eagle Outfit…The Grable FoundationSolomon Mendel & Sylv…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…Staunton Farm Foundat…Mitsubishi Electric A…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Massey Charitable Trust · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Eagle Outfitters Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Mitsubishi Electric America 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 Elhp Helps funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elhp Helps. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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