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Help the Innocent Inc

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.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Religion$29kInternational$10kCrime & Legal$4kCivil Rights$3kAnimals$2kHuman Services$1kEducation$925Recreation & Sports$400Other$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
$350
Median grant
2
States reached
$226k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS$26,650
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS$2,400
ABBY LOU FOUNDATION$350
RAPE RECOVERY CENTER$250
JEFF DESKOVIC FOUNDATION$200
02The need
03

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, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%ABBY LOU FOUNDATION: $350 → 8%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 9%TUMAINI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $203 → 6%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $150 → 9%TUMAINI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $110 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
NY
OH
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CA
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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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$43k · 8 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +131% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
16

Total granted

$43k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+131%
+23%

Still filing today

50%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalCivil RightsEducationOther

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

  • RR
    RAPE RECOVERY CENTER
    5× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +131%
  • YF
    YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER
    2× · 2018–2022 · $650 · revenue +57%
  • RM
    Rocky Mountain Innocence Center
    2× · 2018–2021 · $250 · revenue +226%

Funded once

  • HE
    HUMANITARIAN EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • SL
    STAR LIT BLADES SYNCHRONIZED SKATIN
    one grant, 2018 · $400

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.

1
Sexual Violence Law Center

Sexual Violence Law Center (SVLC) is a nonprofit law firm that protects the safety, privacy, and civil rights of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Washington through holistic and trauma-informed practices rooted in race and…

Human Services
2
Utah Crime Victim Legal Clinic Inc

Provides free legal representation for victims of crime including providing information, support, and advocacy for victims as they go through the criminal justice process.

Human Services
3
Aclu of Utah Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to preserve and promote individual civil rights and civil liberties as guaranteed by the united states and utah constitutions and the civil rights laws within the state of utah.

4
Oregon Law Foundation

The oregon law foundation builds a fairer legal system and supports justice for all in oregon by:-ensuring access to civil legal help for people with low incomes, or who experience other systemic barriers;-promoting the accessibility of…

Crime & Legal
5
Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force

Oregon satf's mission is to build, connect, and sustain survivor-centered systems to prevent sexual violence and advocate for equitable, trauma-informed responses across oregon. we accomplish this by advancing primary prevention, fostering…

Crime & Legal
6
American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation

The purpose of aclu of maine foundation is to advance and protect the civil liberties and human and civil rights provided under the constitutions and laws of the state of maine and the united states. the foundation is a non-partisan…

Civil Rights
7
Stichting Womens Initiatives for Gender Justice

Ending impunity for conflict related sexual violence

International
8
Leaving Legacies Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
10
Lotus Legal Clinic Inc

LOTUS Legal Clinic invests in survivors of human trafficking and sexutal violence by innovatively blending comprehensive legal services, victims rights representation and therapeutic arts programming that results in survivor-driven…

Crime & Legal
11
Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence

The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…

Civil Rights
12
Criminal Justice Policy Foundation

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ycc Family Crisis Center and the most unlike its peers is Abby Lou Foundation. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS — $36,050 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDSHUMANITARIAN EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH — $2,900 · OtherHUMANITARIAN EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTHNAACP — $2,260 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $1,700 · Other+12 more — $2,475 · Other+12 moreRAPE RECOVERY CENTER — $2,710 · HealthSaprea — $250 · HealthYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER — $650 · Human ServicesABBY LOU FOUNDATION — $350 · Human ServicesTUMAINI CHILDRENS FOUNDATION USA INC — $313 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $400 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $100 · EducationSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $300 · Crime & LegalCONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION — $200 · Crime & LegalRocky Mountain Innocence Center — $250 · Civil RightsUTAH CENTER FOR LEGAL INCLUSION — $100 · Civil Rights
Other$45,385Health$2,960Human Services$1,313Education$500Crime & Legal$500Civil Rights$350

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRAPE RECOVERY CENTER — $2,710 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER — $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUMAINI CHILDRENS FOUNDATION USA INC — $313 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Innocence Center — $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaprea — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 RAPE RECOVERY CENTER
  • Who funds YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER
  • Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ABBY LOU FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TUMAINI CHILDRENS FOUNDATION USA INC
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds Rocky Mountain Innocence Center
  • Who funds Saprea
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds UTAH CENTER FOR LEGAL INCLUSION

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.

Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family FoundationUT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization Help the Innocent 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 14%
  • Connecticut Bar Foundation14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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