Illinois · Private foundation
Help the World Foundation
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.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $59k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Help the World Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 14 | $51k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $113k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $84k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $125k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $40k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Seed | $20,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Friends of Humanity Nfp | $11,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Cair-Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Medical Association | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sfusa | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nedea | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Urdu Institute | $1,005 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($393k), not named here.
About Help the World Foundation
- How much does Help the World Foundation give?
- Help the World Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $51,005 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Help the World Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (88%), Religion (5%), Education (2%).
- Who are Help the World Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Seed ($20k), Friends of Humanity Nfp ($11k), Cair-Foundation Inc ($7k).
- Does Help the World Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Help the World Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Where is Help the World Foundation based?
- Help the World Foundation is based in IL.
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