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Helpers Community Inc

Helpers Community, Inc. is dedicated to supporting individuals with developmental disabilities and the organizations that serve them in the greater SF Bay Area.

$137k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$12,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$7.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Helpers Community Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEmployment
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$137k67%
FY20238$256k25%
FY20228$410k13%
FY20218$360k50%
FY20209$369k56%
FY20195$254k20%
FY20186$261k50%
FY20174$1.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.9MHuman Services$557kHousing & Shelter$362kEmployment$140kArts & Culture$80kYouth Development$18k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helpers Community Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center: $861,100 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetThe Arc San Francisco: $395,750 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetThe Cedars of Marin: $385,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCornerstone Community Homes: $334,300 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetVia Rehabilitation Services Inc: $164,274 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetKainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled: $125,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLife Services Alternatives Inc: $123,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy of the North Bay Inc: $115,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMonterey Bay Horsemanship & Therapeutic Center: $75,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCommon Roots Farm: $70,313 over 2y, 18% of budgetInk People Inc: $44,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLArche Portland: $40,845 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDe Colores Arts: $40,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetOne Step Beyond Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHumboldt Community Access and Resource Center: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAbilitypath: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIntegrated Community Services: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOaks of Hebron Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCreativity Explored Inc: $21,350 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCreative Growth Art Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSocial Development Centers Inc dba Community Employment Services: $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCollege of Adaptive Arts: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPony Express Equine Assisted Skills for Youth: $17,500 over 1y, 19% of budgetLife Steps Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSweetwater Spectrum Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBig Wave Group: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Bothin FoundationCA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bothin Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Touchpoint Foundation - Host · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · June & Julian Foss 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.

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How do I get to Helpers Community Inc?

Find your warmest path to Helpers Community Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Helpers Community Inc

How much does Helpers Community Inc give?
Helpers Community Inc reported 9 grants totaling $137,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Helpers Community Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (62%), Human Services (18%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
Who are Helpers Community Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center ($861k), The Arc San Francisco ($396k), The Cedars of Marin ($385k).
Does Helpers Community Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Helpers Community Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bothin Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Heffernan Group Foundation.
Where is Helpers Community Inc based?
Helpers Community Inc is based in CA.

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 27 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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