How much did Helen Thoele Family Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of Helen Thoele Family Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

park

2019

low

2020

low

2021

low

2022

low

2023

parkcharitablegeneralcreeklow

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$930k

Total assets

Largest grants

Gleaners Food Bank$5,000
Noblesville Boys Girls Club$5,000
Pet Friendly Services of Indiana$3,000
American Cancer Society$3,000
Back to Basic Project$3,000
FIDO$3,000
Hamilton County Low Spayed Clinic$3,000
Faces Low Cost Animal Clinic$3,000
Friends of McCormick Creek$2,000
Wheeler Mission$2,000
Random Acts of Flowers$2,000
Shepherd Center of Hamilton County$1,150
Ambassadors For God's Creatures$1,100
Children's Cancer Research Fund$1,000
Leukemia Lymphomia Society$1,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 73% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$306k · 46 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$306k

$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

+6%

Still filing today

28%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEmploymentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

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FIDO
7× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +380%
BA
Boys and Girls Club of Noblesville
2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +164%
AP
Animal Protection League
4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +70%

Funded once

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SPAY-NEUTER SERVICES OF INDY
one grant, 2019 · $6k
JD
JANUS DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +6%
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AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2019 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Indiana County Humane Society

To provide and to promote humane treatment of animals

Animals

Bartholomew County Humane Society Inc

Humane treatment of stray dogs and cats

Animals

Felines Inc

Providing a safe and loving shelter to cats and dogs until their permanent adoptive home is found.

Animals

Cincinnati Animal Care Humane Society

We meet the immediate needs of animals in our community through individualized care, life saving solutions, and temporary shelter en-route to a safe, compatible home. we envision a community where all animals are valued, protected and have…

Animals

Spay Illinois Pet Well Clinics Inc

Our mission is to end pet homelessness by empowering pet owners and shelters with the resources that they need to be successful.

Animals

Friends of Indianapolis Animal Care

The Friends of Indy Animals works alongside Indianapolis Animal Care Services to strategically provide essential support for the agency and to improve the quality of life for animals in Indianapolis.

Animals

Pet Pal Rescue Inc

Our mission is to rescue dogs and cats from animal shelters that may otherwise be euthanized due to time limitations, illness, injuries or lack of socialization and training.

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Pets in Need of Greater Cincinnati Inc

To provide affordable,high-quality veterinary care to allow individuals and families of limited means to enjoy benefits of healthy and responsible pet ownership. Anyone who wants to share a loving home with a pet should have access to…

Animals

Animal Nation Inc

Animal welfare organization providing rescue, rehabilitation and adoption for wild, domestic, and farmed animals.

Animals

Paris Animal Welfare Society Inc

To save and protect homeless animals through responsible adoptions, to provide humane care for all animals entrusted to us, advocate for animal welfare and enhance the human-animal bond by promoting healthy relationships between pets in…

Animals

Floyd County Animal Rescue League

To educate the community in the humane treatment of animals and responsible and enjoyable pet ownership, to reduce the number of unwanted animals in floyd county, in, and to assist and support the new albany-floyd county animal shelter.

Animals

Animal Lifeline of Iowa Inc

A special needs, no kill animal shelter that helps cats & dogs that are injured, handicapped, have a serious medical condition, pregnant & nursing moms & orphan babies. animal lifeline provides vet care, support/rehab care & when healthy…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spay Neuter Services of Indiana and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/25

the rest of the field

3,688/41,970

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

17/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$286,923Animals$19,101Education$13,000Health$12,200Employment$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Food & Nutrition$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lilly Endowment IncIN21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation Helen Thoele Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Freewheelin Community Bikes.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 263748830 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Freewheelin Community Bikes, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Helen Thoele Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Helen Thoele Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Helen Thoele Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Helen Thoele Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Helen Thoele Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Helen Thoele Family Foundation?

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