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Helm Willis C Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$179kHealth$146kEducation$126kHousing & Shelter$27kYouth Development$27kCrime & Legal$21k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VISION LOSS RESOURCES INCORPORATED$25,000
BEREA COLLEGE$15,000
FATHER FLANAGANS BOYS HOME$15,000
THE PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER-CITY EDUCATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHILDRENS HOME OF READING: $5k → 11%BRIDGE TO BRIGHTER: $5k → 10%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS AID INC: $3k → 9%TAYLOR MADE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%LEAD INC: $4k → 13%ATTENTION HOMES: $5k → 12%MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 9%ABBOTT HOUSE: $10k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN CHILD WELFARE AGENCY: $7k → 27%NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC: $4k → 15%ATTENTION INC: $2k → 12%ABBOTT HOUSE: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
KY
NC
MS
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$443k · 14 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +111% since the first grant, against +58% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
19

Total granted

$443k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+111%
+58%

Still filing today

64%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 COLLEGE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +27%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF ELI INC
    2× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +64%
  • NR
    NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
    3× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +195%

Funded once

  • PC
    PRESBYTERIAN CHILD WELFARE AGENCYgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +46%
  • TW
    TOGETHER WE THRIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +79%
  • AS
    ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +72%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Community Care

To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.

Human Services
2
Pathways Youth and Family Services Inc

Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.

Human Services
3
Family Tree Inc

Housing counseling

Human Services
4
Looking Glass Community Services

Looking glass provides counseling, residential treatment, education, vocational training, as well as shelter and case management to children, youth and adults.

Human Services
5
Choose to Win Transitional Housing

Transitional Housing Services

Housing & Shelter
6
Reach Resource Services

Services to runaway youth

Human Services
7
Youth Crisis Center Inc

The mission of YCC is to build a healthier community by empowering young people and families to rise above adversity.

Human Services
8
Pentz Run Youth Services Inc

Provide group and emergency shelter care, independent living, and transitional living programs.

Health
9
Elevate Youth Services Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Journey to Adult Success Inc

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.

Human Services
11
Juneau Youth Services Inc

Responding to the behavioral health needs of alaska's children.

Health
12
Nexus-Path Family Healing

Strengthening lives, families, and communities through our cornerstone values.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Home; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC: $135,000 · OtherVISION LOSS RESOURCES INCFATHER FLANAGANS BOYS HOME: $106,000 · OtherFATHER FLANAGANS BOYS HOMEARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLFAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE OF MID: $12,000 · Other+8 more: $44,500 · Other+8 moreBEREA COLLEGE: $80,000 · EducationBEREA COLLEGENEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $15,000 · EducationNEWPORTFALL RIVER ST…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationABBOTT HOUSE INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesABBOTT HOUSE…ATTENTION INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesATTENTION IN…PRESBYTERIAN CHILD WELFARE AGENCY: $7,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN…ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesALABAMA SHER…BRIDGE TO BRIGHTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE TO BR…TAYLOR MADE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTAYLOR MADE …The Children's Home of Reading: $4,500 · Human ServicesThe Children…LEAD INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesLEAD INCTHE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesTHE NORTHERN…FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesMULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentFour Corners Group Inc: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMake A Chess Move: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOUSE OF ELI INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER: $7,500 · Crime & LegalYOUTH ACHIEVING MORAL MATURITY INC: $1,500 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S SAFE HARBOR INC: $1,500 · Crime & LegalPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$317,500Education$96,000Human Services$59,000Youth Development$17,000Housing & Shelter$15,000Crime & Legal$10,500Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVISION LOSS RESOURCES INC: $135,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF ELI INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetABBOTT HOUSE INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CHILDREN'S HOME: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetATTENTION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN CHILD WELFARE AGENCY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER WE THRIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFour Corners Group Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE RISE UP EXPERIENCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetBRIDGE TO BRIGHTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAYLOR MADE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMake A Chess Move: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Children's Home of Reading: $4,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLEAD INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SAFE HARBOR INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Mile High United Way …Enterprise Holdings F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…
The Denver FoundationCO14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Helm Willis C Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helm Willis C Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 36%
  • Family and Children's Aid Inc: 36% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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