How much did Helios Education Foundation grant in FY2024?

Education$68MPhilanthropy$19MHuman Services$4.9MYouth Development$4.9MArts & Culture$3.3MCommunity Improvement$2.7MCrime & Legal$2.7MPublic Benefit$1.6MSocial Science$1.6MOther$36M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $73k
$10k–50k32 grants · $750k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.7M
$250k+18 grants · $22M

$40,000

Median grant

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States reached

$833M

Total assets

Largest grants

Education Forward Arizona$4,037,600
Teach for America - Miami-Dade$2,505,000
Teach for America - Phoenix$2,188,820
ALL In Education$1,506,500
Aliento$1,502,483
Make Way for Books$1,500,000
Arizona Science Center$1,055,000
Center for the Future of Arizona$1,001,000
The Children's Movement of Florida$1,000,000
Achieve Miami$1,000,000
Phoenix Suns Charities$1,000,000
Florida Chamber Foundation$725,385
Translational Genomics Research Institute Foundation$507,500
Arizona School Administrators$480,000
Arizona Community Foundation$454,000

02The need

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 (FY18–22, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

$135M · 101 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

101 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101

Total granted

$135M

$9.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+35%

Still filing today

91%

76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $636k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

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
7× · 2018–2024 · $17M · revenue +23% · 70% of their budget
ASU Foundation for a New American University
7× · 2018–2024 · $10M · revenue +37%
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Northern Arizona University Foundation
2× · 2019–2023 · $7.5M · revenue +42%

Funded once

MD
Miami Dade College Foundation Incgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue +118%
TS
The SEED Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +125% · 29% of their budget
YC
Yavapai County Educational Services Agency
one grant, 2020 · $950k

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.

Arizona Foundation for Women

To advance the status of arizona's women through research, advocacy and philanthropy to ensure their safety, health and economic independence. this includes performing the functions of, or carrying out the purposes of the arizona community…

Human Services

Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education

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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Florida Education Fund Inc

To promote greater institutional and educational advancement

Education

Aacsb International - the Association to

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

Education

Arizona Chamber of Commerce and

A statewide advocacy organization that advances arizona business and the arizona economy. the arizona chamber of commerce and industry is commited to advancing arizona's competitive position in the global economy by advocating free market…

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Arizona Cpa Foundation for

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

International School of Arizona

Opening doors to success in a constantly changing world

Education

American Association of State Colleges

Aascu elevates and transforms member institutions through effective public policy and leadership enabling its members to drive regional economic mobility through student access and success while helping to solve their communities' most…

Education

National Association for College

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

Education

Florida Institute of Technology Inc

Florida institute of technology's mission is to provide high-quality education to a culturally diverse student body in order to prepare students for entering the global workforce, seeking higher-education opportunities, and serving within…

Education

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Roadtrip Nation Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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 field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%3/181

the rest of the field

14%

10,621/74,582

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.

05the grantee network

164 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

157/164

Grantees still filing

125/164

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$68,179,190Other$42,198,586Philanthropy$18,589,248Human Services$4,932,298Youth Development$4,902,580Arts & Culture$3,297,950Community Improvement$2,719,907

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.

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ70× affinity59 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Ellis Center for Educational Excellence · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Burton Family Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · Thunderbirds Charities · Gates Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · BHHS Legacy 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 organisation 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

38get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Lawton Chiles Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 593400148 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Lawton Chiles Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Helios Education Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Helios Education Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Helios Education Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

164 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Helios Education Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Helios Education Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

164 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Helios Education Foundation?

More from the funding graph