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Helen Wardman Naselli Tes Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$413k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$1.9MHuman Services$784kReligion$392kEducation$46k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$51,611
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$51,611
COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE$51,611
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$51,611
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$51,611
ST ALBAN'S CHURCH$51,611
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$51,611
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$51,611
SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING$51,611
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $784k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $62k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $52k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $49k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $47k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $62k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $52k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $49k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $47k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $46k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $46k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $46k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $46k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $45k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $46k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $46k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $45k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 8 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$3.0M
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+35%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LS
    LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $392k · revenue +26%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $392k
  • SR
    Seabury Resources for Aging
    8× · 2018–2025 · $392k · revenue -47%

Funded once

  • MG
    MEDSTAR GEORGETOWN
    one grant, 2018 · $46k
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $46k · revenue +35%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $392,242 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $392,242 · OtherSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITALST ALBAN'S CHURCH: $392,242 · OtherST ALBAN'S CHURCHCOLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE: $392,242 · OtherCOLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THEGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $300,451 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL+1 more: $46,061 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $392,242 · Human ServicesLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR O…Seabury Resources for Aging: $392,242 · Human ServicesSeabury Resources for AgingAmerican Heart Association Inc: $392,242 · HealthAmerican Heart…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $45,730 · Education
Other$1,915,480Human Services$784,484Health$392,242Education$45,730

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $392,242 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSeabury Resources for Aging: $392,242 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $392,242 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $45,730 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
  • Who funds Seabury Resources for Aging ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Helen Wardman Naselli Tes Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Wardman Naselli Tes Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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