Ohio · Private foundation
Helen L Kay Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $161k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 38
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Helen L Kay Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $161k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $331k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $318k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $373k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $375k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $356k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starr Commonwealth | $145,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $120,000 | 5 | n/a |
| First United Presbyterian Church | $90,000 | 3 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Medical Center | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Crossroads of Michigan | $35,000 | 3 | 1% |
| New City Kids Inc | $33,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Vista Maria | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($635k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helen L Kay Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Carls Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Eagles for Children · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Young Woman's Home Association of Detroit Michigan · Deroy Testamentary Foundation
How this is measured
About Helen L Kay Charitable Trust
- How much does Helen L Kay Charitable Trust give?
- Helen L Kay Charitable Trust reported 23 grants totaling $161,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Helen L Kay Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Human Services (30%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Helen L Kay Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Starr Commonwealth ($145k), The Salvation Army ($120k), First United Presbyterian Church ($90k).
- Does Helen L Kay Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen L Kay Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helen L Kay Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial, United Way for Southeastern Michigan.
- Where is Helen L Kay Charitable Trust based?
- Helen L Kay Charitable Trust is based in OH.
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