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Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust at a glance

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Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.9MHealth$2.6MEducation$1.9MYouth Development$1.1MArts & Culture$649kHousing & Shelter$621kCivil Rights$352kCommunity Improvement$351kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $906k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $245k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MANOR PARK INC$300,000
MARC INC$75,000
BYNUM SCHOOL$70,000
COMMUNITY CHILDRENS MINISTRY$50,000
MIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENT IN$50,000
MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$45,000
HOSPICE OF MIDLAND INCORPORATED$45,000
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS$40,000
CASA DE AMIGOS OF MID TEXAS INCORPORATED$35,000
SAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN$35,000
PERMIAN BASIN TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC$33,000
CITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INC$31,500
MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST$30,000
SAMARITAN CENTER INC$30,000
SPRINGBOARD CENTER$30,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 5%MANOR PARK INC: $300k → 12%MANOR PARK INC: $300k → 12%MANOR PARK INC: $200k → 12%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $22k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES AND SERVICES: $10k → 10%MANOR PARK INC: $150k → 12%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $12k → 14%MANOR PARK INC: $150k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20k → 14%MANOR PARK INC: $134k → 12%MANOR PARK INC: $100k → 12%GREATER IDEAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $50k → 12%SHARING HANDS A RESPITE EXPERIENCE: $40k → 14%GREATER IDEAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $50k → 12%SHARING HANDS A RESPITE EXPERIENCE: $40k → 14%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $38k → 14%SHARING HANDS A RESPITE EXPERIENCE: $35k → 14%SHARING HANDS A RESPITE EXPERIENCE INC: $35k → 14%SHARING HANDS A RESPITE EXPERIENCE INC: $35k → 14%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $30k → 14%SHARING HANDS A RESPITE EXPERIENCE INC: $30k → 14%CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXAS INCORPOR: $30k → 12%CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXAS: $30k → 12%Casa De Amigos Endowment Foundation: $25k → 12%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25k → 14%CASA DE AMIGOS: $25k → 12%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25k → 14%SHARING HANDS A RESPITE EXPERIENCE INC: $25k → 14%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $25k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMI: $15k → 14%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMI: $15k → 14%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMI: $15k → 14%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMI: $15k → 14%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $15k → 14%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC: $10k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $30k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $30k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $20k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $20k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $20k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $20k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $17k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OR
CA
CO
VA
NM
NC
DC
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 91 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

91 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
39

Total granted

$12M
$900k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+13%

Still filing today

85%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MP
    MANOR PARK INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +49%
  • BS
    BYNUM SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $627k · revenue +296%
  • MC
    MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $624k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • MC
    MIDLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -63%
  • MC
    Midland Community Development Corporatio
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • BI
    BASIN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $55k
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

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.

1
Panhandle Independent Living Center

Panhandle Independent Living Center is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the advancement of full participation of individuals with disabilities in all aspects of life.

Human Services
2
Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services
3
Reece Endeavor of Midland

To meet the growing housing needs of people with special needs throughout Midland County - we want to offer them stability and affordability and help them become integrated into the community.

Philanthropy
4
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
5
Palmer Drug Abuse Program Midland Texas Incorporated

Helping young people & their families fight the disease of addiction on all fronts through education, prevention, intervention & recovery.

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6
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal
7
El Centro Del Barrio Inc

CentroMed is a network of integrated primary care clinics providing accessible services of superior quality.

Human Services
8
Casa of the Permian Basin Inc

CASA trains volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the court system to ensure that each child is placed in a safe, permanent, and healthy environment.

Civil Rights
9
East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

—
10
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
11
Midland Community Healthcare Services Inc

Midland community healthcare services provides affordable, comprehensive, accessible, culturally appropriate, cost-effect, primary healthcare services to residents mainly in midland county.

Health
12
Childrens Advocacy Center of Van Zandt County Inc

The children's advocacy center of van zandt county is committed to ensuring quality services and support to those children impacted by abuse while also building a future where no child in van zandt county experiences abuse.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Permian Basin Community Centers for Mhmr; the most unlike its peers is Redirectional Outreach Program Efforts for Youth. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

105 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 105 of the 139 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/105
Grantees still filing
64/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY: $417,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MINISTRYMARC INC: $400,000 · OtherMARC INCHOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC: $382,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF MIDLAND INCWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $300,000 · OtherWEST TEXAS FOOD BANKSAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $285,000 · OtherHillcrest School Inc: $267,000 · OtherCASA OF WEST TEXAS: $272,000 · Other+63 more: $3,148,000 · Other+63 moreMANOR PARK INC: $1,334,000 · Human ServicesMANOR PARK INCSharing Hands A Respite Experience Inc: $240,000 · Human ServicesSharing Hands A Respite E…BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $177,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY…CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $157,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN CENTER INC: $155,000 · Human ServicesMIDLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $150,000 · Human ServicesGREATER IDEAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $100,000 · Human Services+16 more: $646,000 · Human Services+16 moreBYNUM SCHOOL: $627,000 · EducationBYNUM SCHOOLMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $624,000 · EducationMIDLAND COLLEGE F…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA: $187,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SC…RECORDING LIBRARY OF WEST TEXAS: $160,000 · EducationRECORDING LIBRARY…Midland County Public Library Foundation: $135,000 · EducationMidland County Pu…APHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC: $110,000 · EducationAPHASIA CENTER OF…UNLOCK MINISTRIES INC DBA OPPORTUNITY TRIBE: $90,000 · Education+2 more: $85,000 · EducationMIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $405,000 · HealthMIDLAND CH…HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC: $305,000 · HealthHIGH SKY C…MISSION HEALTH CARE INC: $155,000 · HealthMISSION HE…TEEN CHALLENGE-ADULT CENTERS OF TEXAS INC: $105,000 · HealthTEEN CHALL…PERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER: $95,000 · HealthPERMIAN BA…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $80,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'…+8 more: $114,500 · Health+8 moreMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST: $230,000 · Arts & CulturePERMIAN BASIN PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureMIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureMARFA PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMidland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc: $40,000 · Arts & CultureBUSH FAMILY HOME FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLET: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC: $177,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF MIDLAND TEXAS INC: $152,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Fields Edge: $112,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MIDLAND INC: $190,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE WEST TEXAS: $97,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Clubs of the Permian Basin Inc: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSA: $40,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $40,000 · Youth Development
Other$5,471,000Human Services$2,959,000Education$2,018,000Health$1,259,500Arts & Culture$535,000Housing & Shelter$501,000Youth Development$482,000

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 budgetMANOR PARK INC: $1,334,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetBYNUM SCHOOL: $627,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $624,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY: $417,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetMIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $405,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetMARC INC: $400,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC: $382,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC: $305,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $300,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $285,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCASA OF WEST TEXAS: $272,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetHillcrest School Inc: $267,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetSharing Hands A Respite Experience Inc: $240,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST: $230,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MIDLAND INC: $190,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA: $187,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC: $177,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $177,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRECORDING LIBRARY OF WEST TEXAS: $160,000 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $157,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetMISSION HEALTH CARE INC: $155,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetSAMARITAN CENTER INC: $155,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF MIDLAND TEXAS INC: $152,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetMIDLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $150,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetMidland Rape Crisis Center Inc: $150,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INC: $145,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMidland County Public Library Foundation: $135,000 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetThe Fields Edge: $112,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetAPHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC: $110,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetMIDLAND SHARED SPACES INC: $110,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC: $107,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE-ADULT CENTERS OF TEXAS INC: $105,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER IDEAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCAMP FIRE WEST TEXAS: $97,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INC: $96,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER: $95,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTEEN FLOW YOUTH MINISTRY: $90,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetUNLOCK MINISTRIES INC DBA OPPORTUNITY TRIBE: $90,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAGAPE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $87,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetCASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC: $85,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetThe Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin Inc: $85,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC: $85,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC: $85,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $83,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBill of Rights Institute: $80,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $77,000 over 4y, 2.4% 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 MANOR PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MARC INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF WEST TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds Hillcrest School Inc ↗
  • Who funds Sharing Hands A Respite Experience Inc ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MIDLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds RECORDING LIBRARY OF WEST TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSION HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF MIDLAND TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds Midland Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INC ↗
  • Who funds Midland County Public Library Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Fields Edge ↗
  • Who funds APHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND SHARED SPACES INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC ↗
  • Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE-ADULT CENTERS OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER IDEAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CAMP FIRE WEST TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INC ↗
  • Who funds PERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER ↗

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.

Abell-Hanger Foundati…Scharbauer Foundation…Permian Basin Area Fo…The Henry FoundationBeal FoundationPevehouse Family Foun…Wayne & Jo Ann Moore …Fmh FoundationWarren Charitable Fou…Yarborough FoundationThe Fasken FoundationBryant Family Foundat…
Abell-Hanger FoundationTX154.9× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Permian Basin Area Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Beal Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Fmh Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 139 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.

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