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Help the Innocent Inc at a glance

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Help the Innocent 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.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$29kInternational$10kCrime & Legal$4kCivil Rights$3kAnimals$2kHuman Services$1kEducation$925Recreation & Sports$400Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$800
Median grant
4
States reached
$287k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS$10,710
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS$4,265
RAPE RECOVERY CENTER$2,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INNOCENCE CENTER$1,258
YOUTH LINK$800
MURRAY GREENHOUSE FOUNDATION$500
ABBY LOU FOUNDATION$500
Better Not Broken Community Develop$300
FAMILY PLACE$229
KNOWLEDGE POINT NETWORK$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YOUTH LINK: $800 → 11%ABBY LOU FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 9%TUMAINI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $203 → 6%ABBY LOU FOUNDATION: $350 → 8%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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62k · 9 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +131% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$62k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+131%
+23%

Still filing today

56%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsCrime & LegalEducationEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RR
    RAPE RECOVERY CENTER
    6× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +131%
  • RM
    Rocky Mountain Innocence Center
    3× · 2018–2025 · $2k · revenue +226%
  • AL
    ABBY LOU FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $850 · revenue ×15

Funded once

  • HE
    HUMANITARIAN EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $400 · revenue +19%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Utah Domestic Violence Advisory Council

The organization's mission is to end domestic violence in utah through advocacy, education, collaboration, and leadership. the organization is the nationally recognized domestic violence coalition for the state of utah.

Crime & Legal
2
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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3
Rising for Justice Inc

The mission of rising for justice is to leverage the collective forces of law students and social work students who work along with our experienced attorneys to achieve justice for our clients. we directly represent individuals who cannot…

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4
Youth Power Project

Breaking down barriers between lawmakers & youth by centering voices & stories of young people in policymaking at local, state, & federal levels. We are working on a nationwide campaign to uplift survivors of child sexual abuse and provide…

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5
Childsafe Colorado Inc

Mission: our mission is to break the cycle and heal the childhood trauma resulting from abuse and neglect with specialized treatment, education and community outreach. we believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem…

Crime & Legal
6
Sunflower House Inc

To protect children in our community from physical and sexual abuse through education, advocacy, forensic , medical and mental health services.

Crime & Legal
7
GenerationAll

Our Mission is to drastically minimize the generational impact of sexual violence through advocacy and healing by breaking the cycle of generational trauma through advocacy, awareness, and change.

Human Services
8
Childrens Center

The mission of childrens center is to support and medically assess children who are suspected victims of abuse or neglect.

Crime & Legal
9
Community Action Against Rape

Offering hope, help and healing to those affected by sexual violence and exploitation. making an impact in the core services of: prevention, education, advocacy and counseling.

Crime & Legal
10
Safehouse Denver Inc

Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…

Human Services
11
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
12
The District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center

Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ycc Family Crisis Center; 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS: $51,025 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDSHUMANITARIAN EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH: $2,900 · OtherNAACP: $2,260 · Other+15 more: $4,704 · Other+15 moreRAPE RECOVERY CENTER: $4,710 · HealthMURRAY GREENHOUSE FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthSaprea: $250 · HealthABBY LOU FOUNDATION: $850 · Human ServicesYOUTHLINK: $800 · Human ServicesYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $650 · Human ServicesTUMAINI CHILDRENS FOUNDATION USA INC: $313 · Human ServicesRocky Mountain Innocence Center: $1,508 · Civil RightsUTAH CENTER FOR LEGAL INCLUSION: $100 · Civil RightsWASHINGTON 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 & LegalKnowledge Point Network: $100 · Environment
Other$60,889Health$5,460Human Services$2,613Civil Rights$1,608Education$500Crime & Legal$500Environment$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAPE RECOVERY CENTER: $4,710 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Innocence Center: $1,508 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetSaprea: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE UTAH FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHILD & FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF CACHE: $229 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 budgetKnowledge Point Network: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Larry H Miller and Ga…Sorenson Legacy Found…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Help the Innocent Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Help the Innocent Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Connecticut Bar Foundation: 14% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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