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Helen V Voran Irrev Char Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$148k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$297kEducation$215kRecreation & Sports$159kHealth$97kPhilanthropy$80kArts & Culture$70kAnimals$35kPublic Benefit$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $103k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METHODIST CHURCH$31,200
WELLINGTON RECREATION FOUNDATION$25,000
WELLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$22,500
USD 353 SCHOOL FOUNDATION$13,000
FUTURES UNLIMITED$11,000
CITY OF WELLINGTON GOLF COURSE IMPR$5,250
WELLINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY$4,750
Individual grant recipient$3,000
NATL DEPRESSION GLASS MUSEUM$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
CHISHOLM TRAIL MUSEUM$3,000
WELLINGTON HIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL FCA$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FUTURES UNLIMITED: $22k → 13%FUTURES UNLIMITED: $20k → 13%FUTURES UNLIMITED: $18k → 13%FUTURES UNLIMITED: $11k → 13%FUTURES UNLIMITED: $10k → 13%FUTURES UNLIMITED: $6k → 13%FUTUERES UNLIMITED: $5k → 13%FUTURES UNLIMITED: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$980k · 30 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
19

Total granted

$980k
$184k

Still filing today

17%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

  • FU
    FUTURES UNLIMITED INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +21%
  • WH
    WELLINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +13%
  • WS
    WELLINGTON SENIOR CENTER INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • FM
    FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $42k
  • CO
    CITY OF WELLINGTON 317 S WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2021 · $26k
  • WH
    WGTN HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $26k

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METHODIST CHURCH — $229,640 · OtherMETHODIST CHURCHUSD 353 SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $107,000 · OtherUSD 353 SCHOOL FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $99,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWELLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $80,420 · OtherWELLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONWellington Recreation Foundation — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $48,000 · OtherFIRST METHODIST CHURCH — $41,580 · OtherSCHOLARSHIPS-PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES — $38,700 · Other+41 more — $368,350 · Other+41 moreFUTURES UNLIMITED INC — $97,100 · Human ServicesFUTURES U…WELLINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $8,750 · AnimalsFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $4,500 · Youth Development
Other$1,062,690Human Services$97,100Animals$8,750Youth Development$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFUTURES UNLIMITED INC — $97,100 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWellington Recreation Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetWELLINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $8,750 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWELLINGTON SENIOR CENTER INC — $6,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds FUTURES UNLIMITED INC
  • Who funds Wellington Recreation Foundation
  • Who funds WELLINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds WELLINGTON SENIOR CENTER INC
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Stewart Charitable Trust Linda B Stewart Co-TrusteeKS15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stewart Charitable Trust Linda B Stewart Co-Trustee

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 organization Helen V Voran Irrev Char Trust 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Helen V Voran Irrev Char Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Helen V Voran Irrev Char Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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