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Helpers Community Inc

Helpers Community, Inc.

$137k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$12,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AbilityPath$25,000
Creative Growth Art Center$20,000
One Step Beyond Inc$20,000
Pony Express Equine Assisted$17,500
Life Steps Foundation Inc$12,500
Sweetwater Spectrum Inc$12,000
Big Wave Group Inc$10,000
Cedars of Marin$10,000
LArche Portland$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Cornerstone Community Homes: $250k → 8%Oaks of Hebron Inc: $25k → 9%The ARC San Francisco: $250k → 10%Monterey Bay Horsemanship: $75k → 13%Life Steps Foundation Inc: $13k → 14%LArche Portland: $10k → 12%Cornerstone Community Homes: $60k → 8%Sweetwater Spectrum Inc: $12k → 9%ARC San Francisco: $51k → 10%Humboldt Community Access: $15k → 18%LArche Portland: $10k → 12%Cornerstone Community Homes: $24k → 8%ARC San Francisco: $50k → 10%Humboldt Community Access: $15k → 18%LArche Portland: $12k → 12%ARC San Francisco: $25k → 10%LArche Portland: $9k → 12%Kainos Home and Training: $55k → 7%Life Services Alternatives: $50k → 8%Kainos Home and Training: $40k → 7%Life Services Alternatives: $38k → 8%ARC San Francisco: $20k → 10%Kainos Home and Training Ctr: $30k → 7%Life Services Alternatives In: $35k → 8%Community Employment Svcs: $20k → 10%Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center: $250k → 10%The Janet Pomeroy Center: $145k → 10%Integrated Community Svcs: $25k → 8%The Janet Pomeroy Center: $130k → 10%The Janet Pomeroy Center: $110k → 10%The Janet Pomeroy Center: $101k → 10%The Janet Pomeroy Center: $100k → 10%Janet Pomeroy Center: $25k → 10%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 12 repeat orgs$367k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$2.7M
$270k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+66%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEmploymentYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • PR
    Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center
    7× · 2017–2023 · $861k · revenue +39%
  • TA
    THE ARC SAN FRANCISCO
    5× · 2017–2022 · $396k · revenue +10%
  • TC
    The Cedars of Marin
    6× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • MB
    Monterey Bay Horsemanship & Therapeutic Centergraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +66%
  • IP
    INK PEOPLE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $44k · revenue +133%
  • DC
    DE COLORES ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +175%
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
People with Disabilities Succeeding

Community support for Developmentally Disabled Adults, with a main emphasis on helping people to obtain and maintain real jobs in local businesses.

Employment
2
Serra Residential Center Inc

To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities

—
3
Marin Ventures

The mission of Marin Ventures is to serve adults with developmental disabilities by fostering independence, personal growth, and promoting the opportunity for community integration based upon individual need.Marin Ventures is an Adult…

Human Services
4
Abilities Oc

To help people with developmental disabilities reach their highest potential and guide them through their special needs journey.

Human Services
5
Diversified Services Inc

To provide training and independent living skills to individuals with development disabilities so they may become as self-reliant as possible and lead more meaningful lives in the community.

Employment
6
Counterpoint Inc

Counterpoint offers intensive and standard work/day services and supported employment services. Counterpoint also offers three types of residential services: intensive group home, standard group home, and independent living supports.

—
7
Cape Abilities Inc

To serve individuals with disabilities by educating, counseling, providing residential, social, therapeutic and employment supports, so as to empower them to achieve meaningful and valued roles in society.

Human Services
8
Nci Affiliates Inc

Providing vocational training,day program, and community living services that encourage and support individuals with disabilities so that they may successfully achieve their personal and professional goals.

Employment
9
Inclusive Horizons Inc

Inclusive Horizons provides community integration services for adults with intensive behavioral support needs through individualized programming, vocational skill development, life skills training, and meaningful participation in community…

Human Services
10
Developmental Services Continuum Inc

The mission is to provide support and services for children and adults with developmental disabilities.

—
11
East Bay Services to the Developmentally Disabled

To assist those we serve to get in touch with their own Goodness, Dignity and Unlimited Potential. Our Services will Nurture and Affirm the capacity for growth that will be expressed in unique and individual ways.

Human Services
12
Abilities At Work

To provide employment and alternative service programs for developmentally disabled adults in the portland metro area.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled; the most unlike its peers is Pony Express Equine Assisted Skills for Youth. 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

27 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.

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)
27/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center: $861,100 · Human ServicesPomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation CenterTHE ARC SAN FRANCISCO: $395,750 · Human ServicesTHE ARC SAN FRANCISCOCornerstone Community Homes: $334,300 · Human ServicesCornerstone Community HomesKainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled: $125,000 · Human ServicesKainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally DisabledLIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES INC: $123,000 · Human ServicesLIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES INCMonterey Bay Horsemanship & Therapeutic Center: $75,000 · Human Services+7 more: $165,345 · Human Services+7 moreThe Cedars of Marin: $385,000 · OtherThe Cedars of …VIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $164,274 · HealthVIA REHABILIT…UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF THE NORTH BAY INC: $115,000 · HealthUNITED CEREBR…ONE STEP BEYOND INC: $35,000 · HealthONE STEP BEYO…CREATIVITY EXPLORED INC: $21,350 · HealthCREATIVITY EX…Creative Growth Art Center: $20,000 · HealthCreative Grow…INK PEOPLE INC: $44,000 · Arts & CultureDE COLORES ARTS: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCOLLEGE OF ADAPTIVE ARTS: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMON ROOTS FARM: $70,313 · EmploymentABILITYPATH: $25,000 · EmploymentSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $20,000 · EducationPONY EXPRESS EQUINE ASSISTED SKILLS FOR YOUTH: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIG WAVE GROUP: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$2,079,495Other$385,000Health$355,624Arts & Culture$104,000Employment$95,313Education$20,000Youth Development$17,500Housing & Shelter$10,000

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

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 budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

Bothin FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Heffernan Group Found…Atkinson FoundationMcNabb FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…Touchpoint Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…San Jose Mercury News…June & Julian Foss Fo…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 59%
  • LArche Portland: 59% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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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.

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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