· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $458k
- $250k+2 grants · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHEATON CHRISTIAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| WHEATON ACADEMY | $300,000 |
| CROSSROADS KIDS CLUB | $158,000 |
| MEDSEND | $100,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE PREP ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| LETOURNEAU UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| WARRIOR YOUTH ATHLETICS | $50,000 |
| VINE BRANCH | $25,000 |
| NAOMI'S HOUSE | $25,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $25,000 |
| MASTERPIECE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| CHOSEN PEOPLE MINISTRIES | $17,500 |
| CRU FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PIONEERS | $15,000 |
| BY THE HAND CLUB | $13,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $521k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WAWHEATON ACADEMY6× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +61%
- CKCrossroads Kids Club8× · 2017–2024 · $939k · revenue +148% · 38% of their budget
- LULeTourneau University8× · 2017–2024 · $460k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
- CECHRISTIAN EMBASSYone grant, 2017 · $25k
- GEGREATER EUROPEAN MISSIONone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
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Faith's purpose is to mentor students for spirit-filled leadership in ministry, in light of the great commission. while academics are important, the classrooms are not the only learning place. through a combination of formal instruction,…
None
Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Training pastors and leaders in christian faith
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To provide undergrad, graduate and doctoral programs and training for individuals desiring education in preparation for Christian Ministry
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 64 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WHEATON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Kids Club ↗
- Who funds THE WHEATON SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION ↗
- Who funds LeTourneau University ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR YOUTH ATHLETICS INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds VINEBRANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MASTERPIECE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds New Canaan Society Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION LAZARUS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Faith and Learning International NFP ↗
- Who funds FLOURISH RWANDA ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 202 ED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILEMON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COURTSIDE MINISTRIES ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helen's Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen's Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
How this is measured
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