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Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Inc

Eye injury is the primary clinical research emphasis of the Foundation. The Foundation's mission and its primary education component is to perpetuate and advance the legacy of Helen Keller.

$88k
Granted FY2023
2
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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75% of Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’19
1
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2023
$40k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$1.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$10k100%
FY20191$6kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Health$30kArts & Culture$10kEducation$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Opera Birmingham Inc$10,00012%
Troy University$6,0001n/a

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How do I get to Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Inc?

Find your warmest path to Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Inc 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.

About Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Inc

How much does Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Inc give?
Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Inc reported 2 itemized grants totaling $40,000, out of $87,742 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (65%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (13%).
Who are Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: Opera Birmingham Inc ($10k), Troy University ($6k).
Does Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Inc based?
Helen Keller Foundation for Research & Education Inc is based in AL.

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 3 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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