· Private foundation
Helmsmanshipinc
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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCEANS VOYAGE INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| 1130 NAUTICAL DONATIONS | $10,000 |
| SE SIDE EXP INCUBATOR | $8,750 |
| VAR MISC ORGANIZED CHARITIES | $6,105 |
| MOUNT CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WIREPOINTS | $5,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $4,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $4,000 |
| ST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| ST PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,500 |
| CHICAGO POLICE SAILING ASSOC | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER | $3,000 |
| CHICAGO TRAINING CENTER | $3,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO | $2,500 |
| CANAL CORRIDOR ASSOCIATION | $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 (FY19–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OVOcean Voyages Institute4× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +27%
- CYCHICAGO YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $15k · revenue +287%
- WCWIREPOINTS CORP5× · 2019–2024 · $11k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- PUPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +12%
- CACONSTANCE ABBEY INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue 0%
- SAST ANN CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Chicago yacht club's mission is to encourage and promote the comingling of members through yachting by providing recreation activities, classes and regattas for members and their guests.
The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.
To promote foster and support both sweep rowing and sculling to youth and adults in the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area and to educate coach and train the general public in skills relating to rowing and in-water safety.
Sailing instruction
The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…
The chicago convention and tourism bureau is the premier sales and marketing organization that promotes chicago's world-class assets to global leisure travel and convention business to ensure the economic vitality of the city and its…
The chicago club is and shall continue to be the premier club in the city of chicago, serving the business, civic, educational, and philanthropic leaders, and their families, by providing a private club with outstanding dining, service,…
Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 50 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 Ocean Voyages Institute ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MARITIME ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CANAL CORRIDOR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds WIREPOINTS CORP ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CHICAGO PARENTS & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY ON WATER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER ↗
- Who funds RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Chicago Training Center ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CONSTANCE ABBEY INC ↗
- Who funds George Pocock Rowing Foundation ↗
- Who funds JACKSON PARK YACHT CLUB ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
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: Dr Scholl Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Stone Barrett Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Canning Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Tides Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helmsmanshipinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helmsmanshipinc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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