· Private foundation
Helm Willis C Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VISION LOSS RESOURCES INCORPORATED | $25,000 |
| BEREA COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| FATHER FLANAGANS BOYS HOME | $15,000 |
| THE PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER-CITY EDUCATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +111% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
BEREA COLLEGE6× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +27%- HOHOUSE OF ELI INC2× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +64%
- NRNEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM3× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +195%
Funded once
- PCPRESBYTERIAN CHILD WELFARE AGENCYgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +46%
- TWTOGETHER WE THRIVEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +79%
- ASALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +72%
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.
To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.
Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.
Housing counseling
Looking glass provides counseling, residential treatment, education, vocational training, as well as shelter and case management to children, youth and adults.
Transitional Housing Services
Services to runaway youth
The mission of YCC is to build a healthier community by empowering young people and families to rise above adversity.
Provide group and emergency shelter care, independent living, and transitional living programs.
Elevate's mission is to promote safety, competence, and confidence as youth create their path through adolescence and into adulthood.elevate provides a wide range of innovative and effective programs that empower and enrich the lives of…
Ensure at risk youth and youth transitioning from foster care - primarily those between the ages of 18-25 - make successful transitions from adolescence to adulthood.
Responding to the behavioral health needs of alaska's children.
Strengthening lives, families, and communities through our cornerstone values.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Home and the most unlike its peers is Piney Woods School. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 34 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.
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 VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF ELI INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILD WELFARE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc ↗
- Who funds ATTENTION INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE THRIVE ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC ↗
- Who funds Four Corners Group Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RISE UP EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO BRIGHTER INC ↗
- Who funds TAYLOR MADE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Make A Chess Move ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Reading ↗
- Who funds LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC ↗
- Who funds MULTI-SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ACHIEVING MORAL MATURITY INC ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Helm Willis C Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family and Children's Aid Inc — 36% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% 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.