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Helping Hand 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $296k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $588k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUIST BANK | $188,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $100,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES OF UPPER OHIO VALLEY | $75,750 |
| HELPING HEROS | $65,000 |
| GREATER WHEELING COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $56,414 |
| SEEING HAND ASSOCIATION | $52,500 |
| THE LIFE HUB | $50,000 |
| APPALACHIAN OUTREACH | $46,000 |
| HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER | $44,045 |
| SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING | $43,500 |
| BROOKE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING | $40,000 |
| OLD MAN RIVERS MISSION | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL | $22,500 |
| YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM | $19,400 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC | $17,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $602k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $338k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FSFAMILY SERVICE - UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $215k · revenue +3%
- TGTHE GREATER WHEELING COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $138k · revenue +19%
- OMOLD MAN RIVERS MISSION2× · 2024–2025 · $47k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- WHWHEELING HOUSE AUTHORITYone grant, 2023 · $20k
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $9k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.
To promote the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social well being of the senior citizens of holmes county, ohio through the delivery of supportive services such as meal and transportation programs thereby enhancing the quality of…
Mowhc supports individuals who are elderly, disabled, and homebound by delivering nutritious meals, reducing hunger, improving health and promoting independence.
Services to challenged individuals in Vocational,Residential, Home Based, and Community settings.
To provide nutrition and meal services to jackson county ohio and to supply transportation services to senior citizens, the disabled, and others.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
Housing/food - handicap
Provide elderly services to allow persons to stay in their own homes
Rehabilitation of adult alcoholics and drug addicts.
Our mission is restoring hope by helping people and changing lives.
Organization operates a kitchen providing daily meals and housing opportunities serving harlan county and surrounding area. food boxes and personal items are also provided on a periodic basis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Greater Wheeling Coalition for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Life Hub Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE - UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE HUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER WHEELING COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds GROW OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SEEING HAND ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLD MAN RIVERS MISSION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKE HANCOCK FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Francis J and Edith Jackson Founda Security National Trust Company · Hess Family Foundation · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · Vna Home Support Services Inc · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc · Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Rosemary M Front Charitable Trust · James B Chambers Memorial
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Helping Hand Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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