· Private foundation
Helgeson Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $386k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NANTUCKET PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $125,000 |
| BLUEFORCE STRATEGIES INC | $100,000 |
| NANTUCKET BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $61,000 |
| DEXTER SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| NANTUCKET RESOURCE PARTNERSHIP | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 40% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED2× · 2020–2021 · $500k
- NPNANTUCKET PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $225k · revenue +42%
- NBNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC4× · 2020–2024 · $216k · revenue -4%
Funded once
- SJST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $350k
- TKTHE KINGSLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $85k · revenue +23%
- NCNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2021 · $70k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To generate private support for public education on nantucket, to foster private and public partnerships that benefit the children of nantucket public schools, and to honor excellence in teaching and learning.
Nantucket lighthouse school education calls forth inherent social, intellectual, and moral wisdom and prepares each child to lead a responsible and joyful life.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To provide developmental and educational instruction for children ages 2-5 years of age.
To empower students with a love of learning through ocean-based experiential programs that serve schools, teachers, and families.
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…
Nansemond-suffolk academy believes the goal of education is to cultivate honorable, well-informed, responsible, and compassionate persons who think and act constructively in a complex international environment. the academy provides an…
The alliance to protect nantucket sound is a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the permanent preservation of nantucket sound, the historic body of water that lies between cape cod, martha's vineyard, and…
Nekls offers comprehensive educational programs and services to community members who would like to advance their education, workplace skills, or attain a high school diploma/equivalency. in addition, nekls provides early education and…
The organization is committed to developing each student's full intellectual, artistic and physical potential. students are encouraged to challenge themselves intellectually, to pursue rigorous learning for its own sake, (see schedule…
Education of grades pre-school through eighth grade.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dexter Southfield Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blue Force Strategies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 20 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NANTUCKET PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE FORCE STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds THE KINGSLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC dba BIG SKY DISCOVERY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN RADIO RELAY LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSLEY FOUNDATION 009009-009 ↗
- Who funds NOURISH NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Helgeson 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
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.