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Helmstetter Family Foundation co Erik Helmstetter

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.

$123k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0162% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$224kEducation$179kCivil Rights$62kArts & Culture$41kYouth Development$19kInternational$10kFood & Nutrition$6kCrime & Legal$6kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$361k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Food for Lane County$20,000
Pro Kids First Tee$17,550
UCLA Foundation$12,000
Walk With Sally$10,250
Casa De Amparo$10,000
Relief Nursery$10,000
A Window Between Worlds$10,000
Monarch School Project$10,000
Voices For Children$10,000
University of Oregon Fdn$7,725
Vistamar School$4,000
Food Pantry LAX$500
Airport Marina Counseling Service$500
Culver Palms Meals on Wheels$475
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Elderhelp of San Diego: $4k → 11%YMCA of San Diego County: $10k → 11%Present Now: $2k → 14%Present Now: $1k → 14%Present Now: $1k → 14%Elder Help: $5k → 11%United in Harmony: $5k → 14%A Sense of Home: $2k → 14%Casa De Amparo: $25k → 11%A Sense of Home: $1k → 14%Alexandria House: $1k → 14%Casa De Amparo: $25k → 11%Casa De Amparo: $20k → 11%Peace4kids: $1k → 14%Casa De Amparo: $20k → 11%Casa De Amparo: $12k → 11%Casa De Amparo: $10k → 11%Casa De Amparo: $10k → 11%Casa De Amparo: $7k → 11%North County Community Services: $5k → 11%SOFESA: $1k → 14%Walk With Sally: $10k → 14%Walk With Sally: $10k → 14%Walk With Sally: $9k → 14%Walk With Sally: $9k → 14%Walk With Sally: $9k → 14%Walk With Sally: $6k → 14%Walk With Sally: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$759k · 26 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
38

Total granted

$759k
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+92%

Still filing today

73%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther

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

  • CD
    Casa De Amparo
    8× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +17%
  • FF
    FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +49%
  • MS
    MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • RAZOM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -65%
  • MV
    Mission Valley YMCA
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • YO
    YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +89%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
La Casa de las Madres

La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…

2
Casa of Los Angeles

Our mission is to mobilize community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse and neglect. our vision is a los angeles where every child in the welfare system has an advocate and the opportunity to thrive.

Civil Rights
3
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…

Civil Rights
4
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
5
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
6
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
7
Housing Works

Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.

Housing & Shelter
8
San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc

The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…

Social Science
9
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
10
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
11
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
12
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Amparo and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHigher Education FoundationsHomeless Services & Recover…Disability Services & Suppo…Independent Schools and Edu…Dog Rescue and RehomingMedical Centers and Health …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr17%34%20–35yr10%25%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr10%48%35–55yr12%16%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
15%
10,219/66,677

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.

04the grantee network

46 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 67 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
34/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY — $88,000 · OtherFOOD FOR LANE COUNTYRELIEF NURSERY INC — $57,000 · OtherRELIEF NURSERY INCPro Kids San Diego — $35,000 · OtherPro Kids San DiegoPro Kids First Tee — $30,550 · OtherPro Kids First TeeBethlehem Lutheran Church — $30,087 · OtherBethlehem Lutheran ChurchPEACE OVER VIOLENCE — $16,500 · OtherThe Salk Institute — $13,000 · Other+34 more — $107,975 · Other+34 moreCasa De Amparo — $128,000 · Human ServicesCasa De AmparoWALK WITH SALLY — $57,750 · Human ServicesWALK WITH SALLYYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $10,000 · Human ServicesELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $9,000 · Human Services+7 more — $19,000 · Human Services+7 moreMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $80,000 · EducationMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECTUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $46,225 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON F…UCLA FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONVISTAMAR SCHOOL — $20,000 · EducationVISTAMAR SCHOOL+3 more — $3,000 · EducationVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $42,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS — $35,500 · Arts & CultureCITY BALLET INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureGIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentRAZOM INC — $10,000 · International
Other$378,112Human Services$223,750Education$179,225Civil Rights$62,000Arts & Culture$41,000Youth Development$19,000International$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCasa De Amparo — $128,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY — $88,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $80,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWALK WITH SALLY — $57,750 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetRELIEF NURSERY INC — $57,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $46,225 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $42,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS — $35,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVISTAMAR SCHOOL — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEACE OVER VIOLENCE — $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $14,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRAZOM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAMA'S KITCHEN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED IN HARMONY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSQUAREONE VILLAGES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNorth County Community Services — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIRPORT MARINA COUNSELING SERVICE — $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFood Pantry LAX — $3,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPRESENT NOW — $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS — $2,975 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE 4 KIDS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWHER INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNURTURING MINDS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHIMAYO CULTURAL PRESERVATION — $500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES PET RESCUE — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIENVENIDOS OUTREACH INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 Casa De Amparo
  • Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY
  • Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT
  • Who funds WALK WITH SALLY
  • Who funds RELIEF NURSERY INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
  • Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds A WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds VISTAMAR SCHOOL
  • Who funds PEACE OVER VIOLENCE
  • Who funds GIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES
  • Who funds RAZOM INC
  • Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS
  • Who funds ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO
  • Who funds ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS
  • Who funds MAMA'S KITCHEN
  • Who funds UNITED IN HARMONY
  • Who funds SQUAREONE VILLAGES
  • Who funds North County Community Services
  • Who funds CITY BALLET INC
  • Who funds I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH
  • Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AIRPORT MARINA COUNSELING SERVICE
  • Who funds Food Pantry LAX
  • Who funds PRESENT NOW

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.

California Community FoundationCA18.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Annenberg Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

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 Helmstetter Family Foundation co Erik Helmstetter 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Relief Nursery Inc30% of income from government
  • Food for Lane County5% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation2% of income from government
  • Squareone Villages2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report 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, FY2025

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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Find your warmest path to Helmstetter Family Foundation co Erik Helmstetter through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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