· Public charity
Helen Keller Services
To enable individuals who are blind, visually-impaired, deaf-blind and/or have combined hearing-vision loss to live, work, and thrive in their community of choice.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $477k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS | $168,065 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $145,660 |
| University of Colorado | $89,857 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | $73,487 |
| Perkins School for the Blind | $26,166 |
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 (FY19–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 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
- UOUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $241k · revenue +34%
- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND4× · 2019–2022 · $98k · revenue +5%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $93k · revenue +46%
Funded once
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.
3 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. 3 of the 7 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helen Keller Services funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Keller Services. Bigger dots raise more.
- Perkins School for the Blind: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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