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Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation at a glance

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Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
94
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$2.1MArts & Culture$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.1MHousing & Shelter$837kHealth$724kHuman Services$419kAnimals$260kYouth Development$225kOther$0
02FY2025 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k90 grants · $169k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $440k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$400,000
FROEDTERT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$240,000
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN$200,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM$10,000
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION$8,500
RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER$7,000
HUNGER TASK FORCE$5,000
MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION$5,000
HOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC$5,000
THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF WAUKESHA$5,000
WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY$4,500
SOJOURNER FOUNDATION$2,500
AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT (AB$2,500
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE$2,500
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER$2,500
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 (FY20–25, $262k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM: $10k → 5%ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM: $10k → 5%ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM: $10k → 5%ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM: $9k → 5%ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM: $9k → 5%GREATER GALILEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 17%LIFE'S CONNECTION: $2k → 5%LIFE'S CONNECTION: $2k → 5%LIFE'S CONNECTION: $2k → 5%LIFE'S CONNECTION: $2k → 5%HAASE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $2k → 5%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $13k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $11k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $5k → 17%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $3k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $3k → 17%SERENITY INNS: $2k → 17%LUTHERAN COUNSELING & FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 17%LUTHERAN COUNSELING & FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN: $2k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $2k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $2k → 17%WOMENS CARE CENTER MILWAUKEE: $5k → 17%MILWAUKEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%MILWAUKEE WOMENS CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%INDEPENDENCE FIRST: $3k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $3k → 17%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE: $5k → 17%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE: $5k → 17%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE: $5k → 17%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE: $5k → 17%SERENITY INNS INC: $2k → 17%SERENITY INNS INC: $2k → 17%SERENITY INNS INC: $2k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $10k → 17%PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $10k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $10k → 17%PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $10k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $3k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $3k → 17%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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 175 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

175 repeat relationships: 76 still active in FY2025, 99 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

175
89

Total granted

$4.6M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+3%

Still filing today

69%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $669k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • WP
    WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $600k · revenue +379%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +37%
  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $115k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • HH
    Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +64%
  • VC
    VARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2019 · $927k
  • FA
    FROEDTERT AND THE MEDICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $103k
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
Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture
2
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
3
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

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4
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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5
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment
6
Milwaukee Excellence Inc

The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.

—
7
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

—
8
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…

Environment
9
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
10
Employ Milwaukee Inc

The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…

Employment
11
One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

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12
Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc; the most unlike its peers is Feast of Crispian. 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

174 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 174 of the 285 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
172/174
Grantees still filing
118/174
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY FOR HELFAER TENNI: $1,200,000 · OtherMARQUETTE UNIVERSITY FOR HELFAER TENNIVARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: $927,332 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONSFROEDTERT AND THE MEDICAL: $210,000 · OtherFROEDTERT AND THE MEDICAL+117 more: $1,496,820 · Other+117 moreHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Haymarket Mi…MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSE…MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY OR…UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $86,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFORMING ART…+13 more: $124,500 · Arts & Culture+13 moreMarquette University: $400,000 · EducationMarquette …THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $210,000 · EducationTHE MEDICA…LITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC: $25,500 · Education+11 more: $84,400 · Education+11 moreWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC: $600,000 · Housing & ShelterWISCONSIN …HOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED: $40,500 · Housing & ShelterHOPE HOUSE…REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC: $26,000 · Housing & Shelter+4 more: $31,000 · Housing & ShelterFroedtert Hospital Foundation Inc: $240,000 · HealthPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $72,000 · HealthHOPE STREET MINISTRY INC: $19,000 · Health+13 more: $109,500 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $51,500 · Human ServicesADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM INC: $48,000 · Human ServicesPATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $41,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc: $22,500 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesTHE MILWAUKEE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSERENITY INNS INC: $10,000 · Human Services+14 more: $55,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$3,834,152Arts & Culture$1,415,500Education$719,900Housing & Shelter$697,500Health$440,500Human Services$262,000Philanthropy$140,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC: $600,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetMarquette University: $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFroedtert Hospital Foundation Inc: $240,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $210,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $105,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $86,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $72,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $51,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM INC: $48,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $46,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUST ONE MORE MINISTRY INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $41,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED: $40,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $29,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC: $29,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC: $27,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHope Center Inc: $26,200 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetREPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC: $26,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC: $25,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPrevent Blindness Wisconsin: $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY: $20,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetMILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE STREET MINISTRY INC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $13,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $13,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC: $11,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCURATIVE CARE NETWORK INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD: $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATHEDRAL CENTER INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTEM FORWARD INC: $11,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKINSHIP MKE INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBADGER INSTITUTE INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Marquette University ↗
  • Who funds Froedtert Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUST ONE MORE MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc ↗
  • Who funds Prevent Blindness Wisconsin ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC ↗

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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of Greater…Green Bay Packers Fou…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Youth Foundation IncGardner FoundationJoseph and Vera Zilbe…Anon Charitable TrustBert L and Patricia S…Waukesha County Commu…The Ros Foundation
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI179× affinity116 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Waukesha County Community Foundation · The Ros 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 Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
63report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation 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 285 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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