Massachusetts · Private foundation
Helaine Edgar Opportunity Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $261k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $36,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 17
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Helaine Edgar Opportunity Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $261k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $265k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $161k | 88% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $2k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hfs Chicago Scholars | $60,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Evanston Scholars | $60,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Math Circles of Chicago | $60,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Revolution Workshop | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Growing Home Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| West Town Bikes Nfp | $50,000 | 2 | 6% |
| The Shalem Foundation | $36,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $36,000 | 1 | 0% |
| America Israel Democracy Coalition | $36,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Champs Male Mentoring Program - Chirise | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hfs Chicago Scholars | $60,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Evanston Scholars | $60,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Math Circles of Chicago | $60,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Revolution Workshop | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Growing Home Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| West Town Bikes Nfp | $50,000 | 2 | 6% |
| The Shalem Foundation | $36,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $36,000 | 1 | 0% |
| America Israel Democracy Coalition | $36,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Champs Male Mentoring Program - Chirise | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Chabad Center of Sudbury Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| MAAFA Redemption Project | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ryan Banks Academy | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Minds Matter of Chicago Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| High Jump | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Youth Job Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Chicago's Sunshine Enterprises Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helaine Edgar Opportunity Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Helaine Edgar Opportunity Foundation
- How much does Helaine Edgar Opportunity Foundation give?
- Helaine Edgar Opportunity Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $261,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Helaine Edgar Opportunity Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Employment (19%), International (10%).
- Who are Helaine Edgar Opportunity Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Hfs Chicago Scholars ($60k), Evanston Scholars ($60k), Math Circles of Chicago ($60k).
- Does Helaine Edgar Opportunity Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helaine Edgar Opportunity Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helaine Edgar Opportunity Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Robert R McCormick Foundation.
- Where is Helaine Edgar Opportunity Foundation based?
- Helaine Edgar Opportunity Foundation is based in MA.
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