California · Private foundation
Helpful Fish Private 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.
- $197k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,210
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $38,716
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 41
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Helpful Fish Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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 | 28 | $197k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $117k | 65% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $131k | 66% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $72k | 94% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $26k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alzheimer's Orange County | $51,400 | 2 | 0% |
| PIH Health Foundation | $32,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation | $21,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $19,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Seven Point Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $8,210 | 2 | 0% |
| Red Cloud Indian School | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sheriffs Employee Assistance Team | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Regents Univ of California | $4,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Als United Orange County | $4,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($347k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helpful Fish Private Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Farrell Family Foundation · Ebs Foundation · The Yaseen Family Foundation Inc · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · California Community Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Helpful Fish Private Foundation
- How much does Helpful Fish Private Foundation give?
- Helpful Fish Private Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $196,811 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 41 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Helpful Fish Private Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (49%), Education (11%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Helpful Fish Private Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Alzheimer's Orange County ($51k), PIH Health Foundation ($32k), Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation ($22k).
- Does Helpful Fish Private Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helpful Fish Private 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helpful Fish Private Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farrell Family Foundation, Ebs Foundation, The Yaseen Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Helpful Fish Private Foundation based?
- Helpful Fish Private Foundation is based in CA.
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