Illinois · 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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $657k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Helen's Hope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 | 30 | $1.5M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $1.1M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $1.1M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $574k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $516k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $645k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $703k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $765k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheaton Academy | $1,145,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Crossroads Kids Club | $939,479 | 8 | 38% |
| The Wheaton Society for Christian Instruction | $500,000 | 1 | 3% |
| LeTourneau University | $460,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Warrior Youth Athletics Inc | $315,000 | 7 | 70% |
| Fellowship for Performing Arts Inc | $260,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Vinebranch Inc | $220,000 | 6 | 73% |
| Masterpiece Ministries Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 22% |
| The Moody Church | $105,000 | 5 | n/a |
| By The Hand Club For Kids | $87,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Helen's Hope Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Tyndale House Ministries · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · Domanada Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Helen's Hope Foundation
- How much does Helen's Hope Foundation give?
- Helen's Hope Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $1,547,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 34 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 Education (43%), Religion (34%), Health (8%).
- Who are Helen's Hope Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wheaton Academy ($1.1M), Crossroads Kids Club ($939k), The Wheaton Society for Christian Instruction ($500k).
- Does Helen's Hope Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% 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 Tyndale House Ministries, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Servant Foundation.
- Where is Helen's Hope Foundation based?
- Helen's Hope Foundation is based in IL.
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