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Helios Education Foundation

To enrich the lives of individuals in arizona and florida by creating opportunities for success in post-secondary education.

$20M
Granted FY2025still arriving
78
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$136MPhilanthropy$16MHuman Services$12MYouth Development$7.5MCommunity Improvement$4.9MScience & Tech$3.2MPublic Benefit$3.1MSocial Science$1.7MOther$0
02FY2025 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $747k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+19 grants · $17M
$40,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$880M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation$3,709,120
University of South Florida Foundation$1,391,693
Arizona Board of Regents$1,100,000
Broward Education Foundation$1,100,000
Candelen$1,000,000
Consortium of Florida Education Foundations$980,000
Arizona Community Fdn$968,000
FACCT Initiatives$930,000
Southwest Human Development$900,000
Breakthrough Miami$865,000
Heart of Florida United Way$750,000
Camp Catanese Foundation$500,000
Achieve Miami$500,000
The Able Trust$500,000
WestEd$445,000
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, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Hopi Foundation: $8k → 26%Grantmakers in Aging: $8k → 9%Elevation Scholars Inc: $655k → 13%Lawton Chiles Foundation: $51k → 19%Elevation Scholars Inc: $150k → 13%Lawton Chiles Foundation: $40k → 19%Lawton Chiles Foundation: $40k → 19%Lawton Chiles Foundation: $40k → 19%Lawton Chiles Foundation: $40k → 19%Aliento: $535k → 11%Lawton Chiles Foundation: $40k → 19%Helping Advance and Nurture the Development of Youth (Handy): $25k → 13%Lawton Chiles Foundation: $40k → 19%Child and Family Resources: $10k → 15%Valley of the Sun YMCA: $105k → 11%Aliento: $100k → 11%Chicanos Por La Causa: $15k → 11%Chicanos Por La Causa: $9k → 11%Chicanos Por La Causa: $6k → 11%Take the Lead Women - Arizona Chapter: $8k → 11%Not My Kid: $14k → 11%Delivering Dreams of Arizona: $19k → 11%Assistance League of Phoenix Arizona: $14k → 11%Assistance League of Phoenix Arizona: $8k → 11%Jewish Family & Children's Service: $6k → 11%Phoenix Suns Charities: $250k → 11%Genesis City: $54k → 11%Genesis City: $53k → 11%Genesis City: $48k → 11%Genesis City: $45k → 11%Genesis City: $43k → 11%Genesis City: $43k → 11%Genesis City: $40k → 11%Phoenix Suns Charities: $17k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
NC
DC
FL

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$162M · 103 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

103 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
85

Total granted

$162M
$9.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+5%

Still filing today

90%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M 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
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • EF
    EDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $21M · revenue +23% · 77% of their budget
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +196%
  • VC
    VALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $8.5M · revenue +147% · 96% of their budget

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SEED FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +44% · 29% of their budget
  • YC
    Yavapai County Educational Services Agency
    one grant, 2020 · $950k
  • YU
    Yuma Union High School District #70
    one grant, 2017 · $800k

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.

1
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
3
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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4
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
5
Arizona Leads

We facilitate effective, bipartisan partnerships needed to achieve educational excellence and scale success across arizona's public schools - both district and charter.

Education
6
Science Foundation Arizona

Science foundation arizona's mission is to diversify arizona's economy by investing in scientific and engineering research linked to industry needs and investing in education to create a work force with 21st centrury skills.

Philanthropy
7
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
8
Arizona Cpa Foundation for Education and Innovation

The arizona cpa foundation for education and innovationin coordination with the arizona society of cpas supports programs and initiatives in education and practice which enhance excellence and innovation in the profession of accountancy.

Philanthropy
9
Florida Education Fund Inc

To strengthen the larger community by developing and implementing programs and services that lead to institutional enhancement and greater educational advancement.

Education
10
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

—
11
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
12
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yavapai County Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyArizona Advocacy & Professi…Family & Youth Support Serv…Charter and Private SchoolsYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity Health CentersGovernment Accountability &…Senior Residential HousingJewish Community Organizati…Animal Rescue and Shelter S…Community HospitalsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Arts & Cultural Organizatio…Florida Business & Policy A…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%2%<5yr17%7%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr15%33%20–35yr10%24%35–55yr11%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr17%7%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr15%35%20–35yr10%32%35–55yr11%21%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%3/209
the rest of the field
17%
12,547/74,554

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.

04the grantee network

191 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. 191 of the 213 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.

26
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
184/191
Grantees still filing
132/191
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $13,054,820 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AME…Teach for America Inc — $8,773,683 · EducationTeach for America IncNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $7,502,500 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc — $5,824,826 · EducationUniversity of South Florida Foundation IncUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $5,795,533 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCFLORIDA COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $3,884,900 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $3,200,000 · EducationACHIEVE MIAMI INC — $3,077,500 · Education+57 more — $30,716,914 · Education+57 moreEDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONA — $21,295,920 · OtherEDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONAVALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $8,531,750 · OtherVALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCUniversity of Florida Board of Trustees — $2,965,000 · OtherWESTED — $2,610,431 · OtherSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED — $2,421,200 · OtherCandelen Inc — $2,281,212 · OtherTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN — $2,859,055 · Other+63 more — $17,848,913 · Other+63 moreMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $7,323,690 · PhilanthropyMARICOPA COUNTY …ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,082,722 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNIT…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC — $3,941,518 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDA…THE CONSORTIUM OF FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS INC — $2,030,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CONSORTIUM O…VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY — $1,698,383 · PhilanthropyVALLEY OF THE SU…FLORIDA PHILANTHROPIC NETWORK INC — $1,413,070 · PhilanthropyBROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,325,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER PHOENIX CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $960,400 · Philanthropy+15 more — $2,478,810 · Philanthropy+15 moreCHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF FLORIDA INC — $3,450,000 · Youth DevelopmentEARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC — $1,327,400 · Youth DevelopmentSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $894,725 · Youth Development+5 more — $207,355 · Youth DevelopmentAliento Education Fund — $2,136,983 · Human ServicesPHOENIX SUNS CHARITIES INC — $1,267,000 · Human ServicesELEVATION SCHOLARS INC — $814,945 · Human ServicesGENESIS PROGRAM INC — $422,200 · Human ServicesThe Lawton Chiles Foundation Inc — $370,900 · Human Services+10 more — $302,470 · Human ServicesARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER — $2,990,250 · Arts & CultureOPEN CAMPUS MEDIA INC — $150,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $433,560 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA — $1,476,440 · Community ImprovementLEADERSHIP FLORIDA STATEWIDE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $656,100 · Community ImprovementSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY — $395,800 · Community ImprovementPARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC INNOVATION INC — $181,667 · Community Improvement+5 more — $239,100 · Community Improvement
Education$81,830,676Other$60,813,481Philanthropy$28,253,593Youth Development$5,879,480Human Services$5,314,498Arts & Culture$3,573,810Community Improvement$2,949,107

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONA — $21,295,920 over 9y, 77% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $13,054,820 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $8,773,683 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetVALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $8,531,750 over 4y, 96% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $7,502,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $7,323,690 over 8y, 21% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,082,722 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc — $5,824,826 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $5,795,533 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC — $3,941,518 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetFLORIDA COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $3,884,900 over 6y, 87% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF FLORIDA INC — $3,450,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $3,200,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetACHIEVE MIAMI INC — $3,077,500 over 5y, 68% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER — $2,990,250 over 9y, 10% of budgetTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN — $2,859,055 over 9y, 13% of budgetPINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $2,681,760 over 7y, 13% of budgetARIZONA LATINO LEADERS IN EDUCATION — $2,669,900 over 4y, 78% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $2,421,600 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED — $2,421,200 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetREAD BETTER BE BETTER — $2,372,220 over 9y, 31% of budgetCandelen Inc — $2,281,212 over 4y, 11% of budgetAliento Education Fund — $2,136,983 over 3y, 71% of budgetMake Way For Books — $2,046,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetTHE CONSORTIUM OF FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS INC — $2,030,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetHillsborough Education Foundation Inc — $1,959,669 over 9y, 14% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,750,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY — $1,698,383 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,685,250 over 2y, 18% of budgetMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,510,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA — $1,476,440 over 4y, 10% of budgetIMPACT FLORIDA INC — $1,471,390 over 5y, 28% of budgetNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER — $1,427,917 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFLORIDA PHILANTHROPIC NETWORK INC — $1,413,070 over 9y, 48% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC — $1,327,400 over 5y, 35% of budgetBROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,325,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $1,315,000 over 9y, 10% of budgetPHOENIX SUNS CHARITIES INC — $1,267,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetBroward Education Foundation Inc — $1,100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFLORIDA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $1,060,966 over 8y, 20% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION — $1,002,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND — $997,800 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetVALLEY LEADERSHIP CORPORATION — $963,025 over 4y, 95% of budgetGREATER PHOENIX CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $960,400 over 2y, 22% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $894,725 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC — $865,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC — $853,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTUCSON VALUES TEACHERS — $822,299 over 7y, 97% 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 EDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds VALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVE MIAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA LATINO LEADERS IN EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds READ BETTER BE BETTER ↗
  • Who funds Candelen Inc ↗
  • Who funds Aliento Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds Make Way For Books ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSORTIUM OF FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Hillsborough Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA PHILANTHROPIC NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Virginia G Piper Char…Arizona Community Fou…Burton Family Foundat…Thunderbirds CharitiesThe Foundation for Co…Ellis Center for Educ…Suncoast Credit Union…Gates FoundationBlue Cross Blue Shiel…The Diane and Bruce H…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Valley of the Sun Uni…
Virginia G Piper Charitable TrustAZ68× affinity34 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Ellis Center for Educational Excellence · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Gates Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Valley of the Sun United Way

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 Helios Education 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 320%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Urban League of Broward County Inc — 44% of income from government
  • United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Helping Advance and Nurture the Development of Youth Inc (Handy Inc) — 21% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
  • United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Florida Education Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Educate Tomorrow Corp — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
32get no government money at all
63report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 213 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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