· Private foundation
Helen Graham Charitable 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERC | $50,000 |
| OUTWARD BOUND | $45,000 |
| INST FOR NEURO DISORDERS (IND) | $40,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $25,000 |
| JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY | $15,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BRIDGES TO COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| MCV FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE READING TEAM | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| WOMEN'S GIVING ALLIANCE | $1,500 |
| HOPE'S DOOR | $1,000 |
| READ TO GROW | $1,000 |
| MYFACE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Helen Graham Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 13% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 11%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBRIDGES TO COMMUNITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +0%
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART9× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +14%
- VHVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- IINDone grant, 2017 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READING TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HISTORIC KINGSTON ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds HOPES DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTCHESTER 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.
Open a dossier: Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helen Graham Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Graham Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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