How much does Helen N Poston Charitable Trust give?

Helen N Poston Charitable Trust reported 9 grants totaling $104,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Helen N Poston Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Food & Nutrition (12%), Philanthropy (10%).

Who are Helen N Poston Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Second Harvest Community Food Bank ($70k), Salvation Army ($50k), Interfaith Community Services ($50k).

Does Helen N Poston Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Helen N Poston Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Helen N Poston Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust, Wm and Margaret Schreiber Char Tr, Commerce Bancshares Foundation.

Where is Helen N Poston Charitable Trust based?

Helen N Poston Charitable Trust is based in MN.

Helen N Poston Charitable Trust

Helen N Poston Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Helen N Poston Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$302kFood & Nutrition$109kPhilanthropy$87kAnimals$86kYouth Development$82kEmployment$75kArts & Culture$63kHousing & Shelter$35kOther$0

02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $15k
$10k–50k6 grants · $90k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES	$20,000
SECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK	$20,000
PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL BSA	$15,000
THE SALVATION ARMY	$15,000
AFL-CIO NWMO UNITED LABOR COMMUNITY SERV	$10,000
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE	$10,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KS NW MO	$7,500
ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF ST JOSEPH	$4,500
PONY EXPRESS NATIONAL MUSEUM	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$735k · 26 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$735k

$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

-17%

Still filing today

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

SJ
ST JOSEPH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
4× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +19%
OD
OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY FOOD KITCHEN
3× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +104%
AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
3× · 2017–2021 · $15k · revenue +46%

Funded once

IC
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -17%
A2
AMERICAS 2ND HARVEST FOOD BK GREATER
one grant, 2017 · $10k
PE
PONY EXPRESS BOY SCOUT COUNCIL
one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

04Its field

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.

United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy

Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition

Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services

Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Uncompahgre Combined Clinics

To provide quality, cost-effective, accessible, and affordable healthcare to the community.

Health

Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services

Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy

Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Community Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Open Door Community Food Kitchen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 46 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

6/14

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$723,411Philanthropy$65,000Arts & Culture$41,500Human Services$30,000Youth Development$19,000Food & Nutrition$15,000

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.

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.

Harold P Dugdale Charitable TrustMN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust · Wm and Margaret Schreiber Char Tr · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable · Heartland Regional Medical Center · Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr · The Community Foundation of Northwest Missouriinc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Helen N Poston Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen N Poston Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home