Wisconsin · Private foundation
Helios Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $690k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2025
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 60 to 74
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Helios Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $502k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 69 | $685k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 69 | $885k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $660k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $710k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $519k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute for Ecological Civilization | $100,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Process Studies International | $95,000 | 1 | 29% |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of Siouxland Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Animal Rescue League of Boston | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Southern California School Of Theology | $62,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Trees Water and People | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Groton Open Space Association Inc | $59,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Siouxland Cares About Substance Abuse | $55,000 | 4 | 12% |
Show all 151 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($659k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Helios Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 137 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Chelsea Groton Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · Missouri River Historical Development Inc · Boswell Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · United Way of Siouxland Inc · Siouxland Community Foundation · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · The Chesterman Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Helios Foundation
- How much does Helios Foundation give?
- Helios Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $690,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 74 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Helios Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Environment (13%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Helios Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Institute for Ecological Civilization ($100k), Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc ($100k), Process Studies International ($95k).
- Does Helios Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helios Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helios Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chelsea Groton Foundation, Spur Community Foundation Inc, Missouri River Historical Development Inc.
- Where is Helios Foundation based?
- Helios Foundation is based in WI.
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