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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CDCasa De Amparo8× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +17%
- FFFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +49%
- MSMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +89%
Funded once
RAZOM INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -65%- MVMission Valley YMCAone grant, 2017 · $10k
- YOYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYgraduatedone 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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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,…
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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 field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Squareone Villages — 2% 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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