Missouri · Private foundation
Helen S Boylan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $221k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $39,505
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Helen S Boylan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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 | 31 | $221k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $237k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $241k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $289k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $240k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $227k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $262k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $239k | 66% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guadalupe Centers Inc | $91,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Carthage R-9 School Foundation | $61,337 | 3 | 8% |
| United Inner City Services Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lillie Russell Memorial Library | $53,500 | 5 | 10% |
| Jasper County Casa | $50,004 | 3 | 2% |
| Vision Carthage | $42,649 | 7 | 13% |
| Carthage Humane Society Inc | $38,430 | 7 | 2% |
| Carthage Historic Preservation | $34,975 | 5 | 11% |
| Happybottoms | $30,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Boots Court Foundation | $29,000 | 4 | 8% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helen S Boylan Foundation 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City
How this is measured
About Helen S Boylan Foundation
- How much does Helen S Boylan Foundation give?
- Helen S Boylan Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $220,823 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Helen S Boylan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Arts & Culture (23%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Helen S Boylan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Guadalupe Centers Inc ($92k), Carthage R-9 School Foundation ($61k), United Inner City Services Inc ($55k).
- Does Helen S Boylan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen S Boylan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helen S Boylan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc, Menorah Heritage Foundation.
- Where is Helen S Boylan Foundation based?
- Helen S Boylan Foundation is based in MO.
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