· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOISE STATE FOUNDATION | $19,415 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION OF OR AND SW WASHINGTON | $7,500 |
| PORTLAND DACHSHUND RESCUE | $3,000 |
| OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| GONZAGA UNIVERSITY | $2,800 |
| ST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| ST PIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,800 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $2,800 |
| IDAHO WOMEN'S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,125 |
| HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 23% of Helen John Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ANALS Northwest2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +61%
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +42%
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- BSBOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FBO BRIDIG LEAKEone grant, 2017 · $9k
- ICIDAHO CENTER FOR FISCAL POLICYone grant, 2019 · $600
- CFCENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTSone grant, 2019 · $600
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.
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
The vision of Spokane Humane Society is to enrich the lives of animals and their companions through Support, Education, Advocacy and Love (SEAL). As the oldest local non-profit in Spokane, we have been serving companion animals in need and…
Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…
Idaho legal aid services inc is a statewide nonprofit law firm dedicated to providing equal access for low-income people through quality advocacy and education
Conduct rescue of dogs, facilitate adoptions of same. provide emergency vet services for dogs needing rescue
The Idaho Law Foundation maintains a continuing legal education program and administers grants to 1) educate the public, 2) provide legal services to the state's indigent, 3) develop programs to improve the administration of justice and…
Founded in 1973, dove lewis emergency animal hospital, inc. (dovelewis) is one of the premier veterinary medical service organizations in the us and the only 24/7 not-for-profit animal emergency, critical care, and specialty hospital in…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
To reduce animal cruelty and suffering, with emphasis on providing low-cost spay/neuter and wellness services. Specifically, WAGs goal is to reduce pet overpopulation through our high-quality, high-volume, low-cost spay/neuter clinic in…
Our mission is to foster compassionate human and animal connections; forge safe, healthy, and thriving communities for animals; provide care and transitional sheltering to animals; provide leadership and guidance to the animal sheltering…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 26 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 ALS Northwest ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW LEGAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND DACHSHUND RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE OSWEGO SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO WOMENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helen John Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen John Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- St Andrew Legal Clinic: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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