How much did HELP ASSOCIATION INC grant in FY2024?

HELP ASSOCIATION INC reported 9 grants totaling $183,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is HELP ASSOCIATION INC based?

HELP ASSOCIATION INC is based in MD.

HELP ASSOCIATION INC

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

HELP ASSOCIATION INC

All proceeds from the sale of donated clothing and household items are donated to other non-profit community organizations in the form of monetary grants

$184k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$20k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of HELP ASSOCIATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k8 grants · $96k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$390k

Total assets

Largest grants

CHRISTMAS IN APRIL-CALVERT CO$20,000
CALVERT MEALS ON WHEELS$15,000
ST ANTHONY'S LADIES OF CHARITY$11,000
CALVERT CHURCHES COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$10,000
ST JOHN VIANNEY FOOD PANTRY$10,000
CALVERT FAMILY ADVOCATES$10,000
PROJECT ECHO$10,000
FRIENDS OF CALVERT CO SENIORS$10,000
BAYSIDE HISTORY MUSEUM INC$6,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5% — the area typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$419k · 13 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$419k

$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+43%

Still filing today

54%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationOther

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

PE
PROJECT ECHO INC HOMELESS SHELTER
5× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +25%
CI
CHRISTMAS IN APRIL-CALVERT CO
3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +33%
CF
CALVERT FAMILY ADVOCATES
3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +93%

Funded once

SO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS - CALVERTgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +43%
CC
CALVERT CHURCHES FOOD PANTRY
one grant, 2019 · $10k
CC
CALVERT CHURCH FOOD PANTRY
one grant, 2018 · $8k

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.

Calverthealth Medical Center Inc

Calverthealth medical center provides quality inpatient and ambulatory health care to the people of southern maryland that is accessible, cost-effective and compassionate. chmc works in partnership with the community to improve the health…

Health

Community Ministry of Calvert County

Provide financial assistance and support to individuals in need due to emergency situations.

Human Services

Garrett County Maryland Community

To improve the quality of life for people in need by empowering them to become more self-sufficient by providing essential services in collaboration and cooperation with other community based organizations.

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Calvert K-9 Search Team Inc

Provide nationally certified search dog teams with support management personnel to requesting agencies to assist in finding lost or missing persons utilizing the teams volunteer member dogs. Additionally provide Community Education…

Public Safety & Disaster

Calver Foundation

Human Services

Calvert Marine Museum Society Inc

Promote community awareness of the museum and to support the operation of the museum.

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Adult Day Care of Calvert County Inc

The organization provides a structured setting for impaired adults to obtain medical and social therapy, recreational and educational activities, and nutritional supervision.

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Calverthealth Foundation Inc

The calverthealth foundation is focused on the development, optimization and operation of multiple charitable donation programs to maximize support for calverthealth medical center and its subsidiaries whose vision is to provide…

Health

End Hunger in Calvert County Inc

Work in partnership with faith communities, not-for-profit organizations, businesses, and concerned citizens to provide groceries, self-sufficency assessments, training and other services to local families and individuals in need.

Food & Nutrition

Callahan County Aging

Provide meals to elderly and disabled

Human Services

End Hunger in Charles County Inc

To eradicate hunger in Charles County MD

Human Services

Maryland Historical Society Inc

The maryland historical society serves the people of maryland, and those interested in maryland history, through stewardship of comprehensive library and museum collections that are central to the state's history.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Echo Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Bayside History Museum Inc. 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

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/13

Grantees still filing

9/13

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$216,500Human Services$146,500Housing & Shelter$60,000Food & Nutrition$51,000Arts & Culture$12,725Recreation & Sports$10,000Education$5,000

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.

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.

United Way of Southern MarylandMD13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Southern Maryland · Give Back Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation HELP ASSOCIATION INC 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MEALS ON WHEELS - CALVERT CO.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 521242692 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MEALS ON WHEELS - CALVERT CO, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 31% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Help Association Inc?

Find your warmest path to Help Association Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HELP ASSOCIATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Help Association Inc?

More from the funding graph

HELP ASSOCIATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Help Association Inc?

More from the funding graph