Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Helen's Hope Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $815k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $120,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Helen's Hope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $815k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $620k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $582k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $909k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $822k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $731k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $753k | 47% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $660k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Branches Inc | $585,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc | $515,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Henry Street Settlement | $450,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Episcopal Academy | $410,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Children's Alliance | $255,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Chapman Partnership Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Reading Team Inc | $250,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Family of Woodstock Inc | $240,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Newburgh Inc | $225,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Family Services Inc | $225,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($164k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helen's Hope 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: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Td Charitable Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Vassar College · Plymouth Hill Foundation · Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation
How this is measured
About Helen's Hope Foundation
- How much does Helen's Hope Foundation give?
- Helen's Hope Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $815,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Helen's Hope Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (38%), Education (20%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are Helen's Hope Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Branches Inc ($585k), Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc ($515k), Henry Street Settlement ($450k).
- Does Helen's Hope Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen's Hope Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helen's Hope Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc, The Dyson Foundation, Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Helen's Hope Foundation based?
- Helen's Hope Foundation is based in PA.
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