· Private foundation
Helle 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
- $250k+1 grant · $271k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $271,127 |
| THE JOSSELYN CENTER | $133,513 |
| EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FUND | $101,516 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $50,339 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $35,564 |
| VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,870 |
| STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $20,801 |
| VAIL VETERNS FOUNDATION INC | $12,881 |
| GUARDIAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $12,214 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $10,453 |
| WALKING MOUNTAINS SCIENCE CENTER | $5,108 |
| LIFT UP | $5,000 |
| PECS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| B THE DIFFERENCE | $2,500 |
| GLENVIEW SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Helle Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 9 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $429k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Illinois Foundation7× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +127%- TJTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue ×13
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2017–2024 · $241k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- VCVANGUARD CHARITABLE PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $35k
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY FOUNDERSone grant, 2019 · $25k
- VHVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $23k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
How this is measured
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 97 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Lift Up of Routt County ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds EAST VILLAGE YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ronald Davis Family Foundation · The Winmax Foundation Inc · The Bolwell Foundation · Frechette Family Foundation · Frey Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helle Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helle Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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