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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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

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.

show:

Your 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 your 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%HAASE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $2k → 5%LIFE'S CONNECTION: $2k → 5%LIFE'S CONNECTION: $2k → 5%LIFE'S CONNECTION: $2k → 5%LIFE'S CONNECTION: $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%HEAR WISCONSIN: $2k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN: $2k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN: $2k → 17%WOMENS CARE CENTER MILWAUKEE: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%MILWAUKEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 17%MILWAUKEE WOMENS CENTER: $5k → 17%INDEPENDENCE FIRST: $3k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $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 MILWAUKEE INC: $10k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $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

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you 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

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

  • 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

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

04Your field

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.

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.

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7
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

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

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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr17%16%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr20%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%31%5–10yr17%5%10–20yr18%9%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr20%27%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/189
the rest of the field
12%
939/8,115

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.

04the grantee network

174 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. 174 of the 285 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
172/174
Grantees still filing
117/174
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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+116 more — $1,494,820 · Other+116 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+14 more — $111,500 · 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 ServicesSERENITY INNS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER 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$3,832,152Arts & Culture$1,415,500Education$719,900Housing & Shelter$697,500Health$442,500Human Services$262,000Philanthropy$140,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetHERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC — $27,500 over 6y, 0.7% 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 budgetMILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY — $20,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetPrevent Blindness Wisconsin — $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% 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 budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $12,500 over 5y, 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 budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD — $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATHEDRAL CENTER INC — $11,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCURATIVE CARE NETWORK INC — $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD — $11,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBADGER INSTITUTE INC — $11,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKINSHIP MKE INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budget
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 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 HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds MacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY 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 MILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds Prevent Blindness Wisconsin ↗

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.

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

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 Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 285 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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