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Helfgott-Renfroe Foundation Inc

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.

$151k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
35
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 35
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Helfgott-Renfroe Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementArts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$151k12%
FY202435$176k11%
FY202333$159k18%
FY202227$160k30%
FY202120$105k50%
FY202012$65k100%
FY201914$80k57%
FY20186$16k83%
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$227kReligion$171kEducation$84kAnimals$83kHealth$57kCommunity Improvement$44kHuman Services$42kRecreation & Sports$35kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Abundant Life Church$69,0006n/a
O'Connor Hospital$26,00020%
Delaware County Senior Council Inc$22,500533%
Delaware Opportunities Inc$14,00060%
Delhi Community Fund$10,500616%
West Kortright Centreinc$5,00031%
Delaware County Historical Association$5,00021%
Honest Brook Music Festival Inc$2,00017%
Delhi Beautification Corporation$1,0001n/a

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($759k), not named here.

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.

Delaware National Bank of Delhi CorporateNY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware National Bank of Delhi Corporate · A Lindsay & Olive B O'Connor Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Helfgott-Renfroe Foundation Inc 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.

About Helfgott-Renfroe Foundation Inc

How much does Helfgott-Renfroe Foundation Inc give?
Helfgott-Renfroe Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $151,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Helfgott-Renfroe Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (25%), Religion (19%), Education (9%).
Who are Helfgott-Renfroe Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Abundant Life Church ($69k), O'Connor Hospital ($26k), Delaware County Senior Council Inc ($23k).
Does Helfgott-Renfroe Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Helfgott-Renfroe Foundation Inc 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 Helfgott-Renfroe Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware National Bank of Delhi Corporate, A Lindsay & Olive B O'Connor Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Helfgott-Renfroe Foundation Inc based?
Helfgott-Renfroe Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 58 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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