Skip to content
Helen Brame Irr Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Helen Brame Irr Trust

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.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$12k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$216kHousing & Shelter$183kReligion$76kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kInternational$75kEducation$75kHealth$21kCommunity Improvement$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,846
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMEN'S IMPROVEMENT CLUBS$11,607
DAVID & MARGARET HOME YOUTH & FAMILY SVC$10,846
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,846
LOS ANGELES MISSION INC$10,846
MASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA$10,846
NAVIGAGE FOUNDATION$10,846
SALVATION ARMY$10,846
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF CORONA$10,846
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$10,233
FRIENDS OF THE CORONA PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,084
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF WOMENS CLUBS: $12k → 10%MASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA: $12k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 14%MASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA: $11k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 14%CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF WOMENS CLUBS: $10k → 10%MASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA: $10k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF WOMENS CLUBS: $10k → 10%MASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA: $10k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%MASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA: $9k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 14%MASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA: $8k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%MASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA: $8k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%MASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA: $8k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$710k · 11 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$710k
$33k

Still filing today

64%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalEducationHealthOther
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

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $75k
  • MH
    MASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue -6%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES MISSION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue -5%

Funded once

  • WI
    WOMEN'S IMPROVEMENT CLUBS
    one grant, 2025 · $12k
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF CORONA
    one grant, 2025 · $11k
  • DM
    DAVID & MARGARET HOME YOUTH & FAMILY SVC
    one grant, 2025 · $11k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 14 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $75,494 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $65,103 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHTHE DAVID MARGARET HOME INC: $64,648 · OtherTHE DAVID MARGARET HOME INCWomen's Improvement Club: $32,522 · OtherWomen's Improvement ClubWOMEN'S IMPROVEMENT CLUBS: $11,607 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF CORONA: $10,846 · OtherDAVID & MARGARET HOME YOUTH & FAMILY SVC: $10,846 · OtherMASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA: $75,494 · Human ServicesMASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIAAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75,494 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross…CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS: $32,126 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF WO…LOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $75,494 · Housing & ShelterLOS ANGELES…HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $74,881 · InternationalHEIFER INTE…FRIENDS OF THE CORONA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $74,732 · EducationFRIENDS OF …NAVIGAGE FOUNDATION: $63,585 · HealthNAVIGAGE …
Other$271,066Human Services$183,114Housing & Shelter$75,494International$74,881Education$74,732Health$63,585

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA: $75,494 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $75,494 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75,494 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $74,881 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CORONA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $74,732 over 8y, 19% of budgetNAVIGAGE FOUNDATION: $63,585 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS: $32,126 over 3y, 7.4% 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 MASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CORONA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds NAVIGAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Helen Brame Irr Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Brame Irr Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 14 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Helen Brame Irr’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home