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Heavens Helping Hand Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTGATE CHURCH | $80,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES | $5,000 |
| HOMEFIRST | $5,000 |
| LIFEMOVES | $5,000 |
| VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND | $5,000 |
| CITY TEAM MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| RAFT | $4,000 |
| GOOD KARMA BIKES | $3,454 |
| NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DEMOSTIC VIOLENCE | $3,000 |
| DOWNTOWN STREET | $3,000 |
| SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $3,000 |
| PROJECT WEHOPE | $2,000 |
| THE BIBLE PROJECT | $1,000 |
| HELP ONE CHILD | $1,000 |
| THE BAIL PROJECT | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- DDONORSCHOOSEORG6× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +1%
- VEVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +311%
- LLIFEMOVES6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- RTRETRAINING THE VILLAGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +69%
- AMAMOR MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +53%
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.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Family supportive housing, inc. is committed to the entire family and encourages families to stay intact while addressing their needs for food, shelter, education, and employment. the organization provides shelter, housing opportunities…
Abode services offers housing programs linked to supportive services for homeless families, single adults and youth. housing options include permanent supportive housing rental subsidy assistance, rapid rehousing and emergency shelter.…
Address the homeless crisis in California.
Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Our mission at housing trust silicon valley, is to use transformative housing finance and public and private partnerships to create more equitable and affordable communities.
Episcopal community services of san francisco (ecs) helps homeless and very low-income people every day and every night obtain the housing, jobs, shelter, and essential services each person needs to prevent and end homelessness.
Our mission is to unite the community to fight hunger and homelessness. our vision is a community where every person has food on the table and every person has a roof over their head.
Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.
Ywca promotes peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Destination: home's mission is to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in santa clara county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cityteam Ministries and the most unlike its peers is The Principia Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 32 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 DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds HELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN AT RISK ↗
- Who funds HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TODAYS YOUTH MATTER ↗
- Who funds Downtown Streets Inc ↗
- Who funds The Principia Corporation ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds WEHOPE ↗
- Who funds BILL WILSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds Greene Scholars ↗
- Who funds RETRAINING THE VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds AMOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY GIVING TREE ↗
- Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
- Who funds GOOD KARMA BIKES INC ↗
- Who funds SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE ALTERNATIVE RECREATION TEAMBUILDING IMPACTING PROGRAM ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kla Foundation · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Mission City Community Fund · Star One Credit Union · The Brandenburg Family 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 Heavens Helping Hand 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.
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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