How much does Helen John Foundation give?

Helen John Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $49,040 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Helen John Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Health (33%), Religion (16%).

Who are Helen John Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: ALS Northwest ($30k), St Andrew Nativity School ($22k), Corporation of Gonzaga University ($20k).

Does Helen John Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Helen John Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Helen John Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Network for Good.

Where is Helen John Foundation based?

Helen John Foundation is based in OR.

Foundation Dossiers

Oregon · Private foundation

Helen John 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.

$49k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 11
Grants FY2025: 8
Organizations funded FY2024: 13%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $2,800
Largest grant, FY2025: $19,415
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 14; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $752k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Helen John Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsArts & CultureInternationalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	10	$48k	10%
FY2024	8	$28k	13%
FY2023	8	$31k	0%
FY2022	9	$23k	0%
FY2021	10	$37k	0%
FY2020	14	$43k	36%
FY2019	10	$14k	60%
FY2018	11	$33k	0%

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What it funded, over time

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

Education$100kHealth$84kReligion$40kAnimals$19kCrime & Legal$5kArts & Culture$1kInternational$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
ALS Northwest	$30,000	2	1%
St Andrew Nativity School	$22,100	9	n/a
Corporation of Gonzaga University	$20,100	9	0%
Oregon Humane Society	$16,250	8	0%
St Andrew Legal Clinic	$5,000	4	0%
Portland Dachshund Rescue Inc	$4,000	2	2%
Idaho Humane Society Inc	$4,000	2	0%
Lake Oswego School District Foundation Inc	$2,500	2	0%
Idaho Humanities Council Inc	$1,000	2	0%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$1,000	2	0%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($193k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helen John Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Helen John Foundation

How much does Helen John Foundation give?: Helen John Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $49,040 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Helen John Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Health (33%), Religion (16%).
Who are Helen John Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: ALS Northwest ($30k), St Andrew Nativity School ($22k), Corporation of Gonzaga University ($20k).
Does Helen John Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Helen John Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Helen John Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Network for Good.
Where is Helen John Foundation based?: Helen John Foundation is based in OR.