California · Private foundation
Help Better Lives Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $194k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,974
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $92,520
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 11
- FY2019 to FY2024
- Total assets, FY2025
- $437k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Help Better Lives 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.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
InternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $194k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $191k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $149k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $148k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $150k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $177k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $206k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Food & Nutrition$497kEducation$392kInternational$78kCommunity Improvement$51kYouth Development$4k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Alamitos Youth Center | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Future International Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
About Help Better Lives Inc
- How much does Help Better Lives Inc give?
- Help Better Lives Inc reported 9 grants totaling $193,607 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Help Better Lives Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (49%), Education (38%), International (8%).
- Who are Help Better Lives Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Los Alamitos Youth Center ($3k), Children's Future International Inc ($1k).
- Does Help Better Lives Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Help Better Lives Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Help Better Lives Inc based?
- Help Better Lives Inc is based in CA.
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