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Helliwell 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
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN SUN FARM SANCTUARY | $15,000 |
| ARMOUR DANCE THEATRE INC | $10,000 |
| LEGAL SERVICES OF GREATER MIAMI | $10,000 |
| ZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KIDS 4 KIDS | $5,000 |
| DEERING ESTATE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- MLMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC3× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue -25%
- ACALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue -8%
- LSLegal Services of Greater Miami Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TJTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MIAMI INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +21%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAPone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +2%
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.
In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…
EverydayHUMANE is the first comprehensive humane education organization in South Florida. We work with public schools, summer camps, and community based organizations. Our goal is to foster empathy, inspire kindness, and cultivate…
The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
To create a greater miami where everyone can thrive by accelerating generosity, leadership, and community engagement. the miami foundation serves as a philanthropic and community backbone for greater miami, bringing together donors,…
Tri-county animal rescue is a no-kill, nonprofit animal shelter working to prevent the killing of over 573,000 unwanted pets in broward, miami-dade, and palm beach counties. tri-county has no boundaries; we go all over the u.s. whenever we…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
The mission is to create a community-based network that develops coordinates and provides quality education accessible health care youth development programs opportunities for employment and safe neighborhoods for children and families…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Junior League of Miami Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kids 4 Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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.
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 MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN SUN FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS 4 KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP ↗
- Who funds ZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARMOUR DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DEERING ESTATE 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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Kirk Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Helliwell 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.
- Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc — 2% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
- Zoo Miami Foundation Inc — 0% 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.
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