Kansas · Private foundation
Help Ahead Inc
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.
- $5k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $850
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,073
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $74k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Help Ahead Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $5k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $1k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $5k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $5k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $2k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $4k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $6k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $4k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rose Brooks Center Inc | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Kansas City Autism Training Center Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lakemary Center Inc | $1,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Supporting Kids Foundation | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault | $850 | 1 | n/a |
| Rockhurst High School | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Baker University | $300 | 2 | 0% |
| Wipe Every Tear Inc | $150 | 1 | 0% |
| Church of the Resurrection | $61 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Help Ahead Inc
- How much does Help Ahead Inc give?
- Help Ahead Inc reported 5 grants totaling $4,548 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Help Ahead Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (40%), Human Services (21%), Youth Development (7%).
- Who are Help Ahead Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rose Brooks Center Inc ($5k), Kansas City Autism Training Center Inc ($3k), Lakemary Center Inc ($1k).
- Does Help Ahead Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Help Ahead Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Help Ahead Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, The Sunderland Foundation, Servant Foundation.
- Where is Help Ahead Inc based?
- Help Ahead Inc is based in KS.
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