Maryland · 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
- $207k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $118k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $469k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Help Association 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 | 9 | $118k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $102k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $143k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $96k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $93k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $68k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christmas-In-April Calvert County Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 19% |
| Calvert Meals on Wheels Inc | $72,000 | 6 | 31% |
| Project Echo Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Friends of Calvert County Seniors Inc | $55,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Massb Foundation | $45,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Ladies of Charity Calvert County Inc | $42,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Saint John Vianney Church | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Calvert Churches Community Food Pantry Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 11% |
| The Bayside History Museum Inc | $12,725 | 2 | 21% |
| Special Olympics Maryland Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christmas-In-April Calvert County Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 19% |
| Calvert Meals on Wheels Inc | $72,000 | 6 | 31% |
| Project Echo Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Friends of Calvert County Seniors Inc | $55,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Massb Foundation | $45,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Ladies of Charity Calvert County Inc | $42,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Saint John Vianney Church | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Calvert Churches Community Food Pantry Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 11% |
| The Bayside History Museum Inc | $12,725 | 2 | 21% |
| Special Olympics Maryland Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Calvert County Public Schools | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| On Our Own of Calvert Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 3% |
| United Way of Southern Maryland | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Calvert Hospice Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Life Center of Southern Calvert County Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Calvert County Public Library Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Calvert County Government - Museum Fund | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Beach Senior Center Council Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lifestyles of Maryland Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($112k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Help Association Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: United Way of Southern Maryland · Give Back Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Help Association Inc
- How much does Help Association Inc give?
- Help Association Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $118,000, out of $206,981 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Help Association Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (29%), Human Services (25%), Housing & Shelter (24%).
- Who are Help Association Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Christmas-In-April Calvert County Inc ($85k), Calvert Meals on Wheels Inc ($72k), Project Echo Inc ($70k).
- Does Help Association Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Help Association Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Southern Maryland, Give Back Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Help Association Inc based?
- Help Association Inc is based in MD.
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