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Helping Hand Foundation at a glance

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Helping Hand Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2026still arriving
31
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$131k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Human Services$590kHousing & Shelter$353kCommunity Improvement$247kFood & Nutrition$197kPhilanthropy$100kHealth$76kEducation$60kYouth Development$44kOther$0
02FY2026 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k6 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $377k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $667k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER WHEELING COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$131,250
Individual grant recipient$125,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
TRUIST BANK$99,500
FAMILY SERVICES OF UPPER OHIO VALLEY$80,100
THE LIFE HUB$75,000
BROOKE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING$56,250
VALLEY HOSPICE$42,500
SEEING HAND ASSOCIATION$38,000
SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING$36,000
CARING PLACE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$35,000
OHIO COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK$22,500
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL$22,500
WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT$20,000
OLD MAN RIVERS MISSION$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–26, $823k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%TRI COUNTY HELP CENTER: $15k → 17%BROOKE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $72k → 13%COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $18k → 21%JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $15k → 19%BROOKE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $56k → 13%COUNCIL OF SENIOR TYLER COUNTIANS: $5k → 15%COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $17k → 21%BROOKE HANCOCK FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK: $17k → 12%BROOKE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $40k → 13%BROOKE HANCOCK FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK: $3k → 12%BROOKE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $10k → 13%THE LIFE HUB INC: $100k → 15%COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $5k → 21%COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $5k → 21%THE LIFE HUB: $75k → 15%HELPING HEROS: $65k → 15%APPALACHIAN OUTREACH: $50k → 15%THE LIFE HUB: $50k → 15%APPALACHIAN OUTREACH: $46k → 15%HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER: $44k → 15%OHIO COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK: $23k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM: $20k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM: $19k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM: $13k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM: $12k → 15%OHIO COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK: $11k → 15%HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER: $10k → 15%OHIO COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK: $5k → 15%OHIO COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK: $3k → 15%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 24 repeat orgs$398k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2026, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
12

Total granted

$2.4M
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

58%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEmploymentHealthOther
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

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE - UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC
    4× · 2023–2026 · $295k · revenue +3%
  • TG
    THE GREATER WHEELING COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    3× · 2024–2026 · $269k · revenue +19%
  • AO
    APPALACHIAN OUTREACH INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $96k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • HH
    HELPING HEROES INC
    one grant, 2025 · $65k · revenue 0%
  • WH
    WHEELING HOUSE AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • JC
    JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -38%
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
Central West Virginia Aging Services Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Wayne County Community Services Organization

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

Community Improvement
3
Holmes County Council On Aging Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Southeastern Ohio Center for Independent Living

Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.

Human Services
5
Stark County Council On Aging

Provide elderly services to allow persons to stay in their own homes

Human Services
6
Walpole Area Visiting Nurse Association Inc

Our mission is to provide compassionate, multi-disciplinary, high quality health care to patients in their homes.

Health
7
Hampshire County Committee on Aging

To improve the quality of life for seniors by providing nutritious meals to senior citizens, in-home care services to medicaid eligible & private pay citizens and providing transportation.

Human Services
8
Human Resources Center Inc

Services to challenged individuals in Vocational,Residential, Home Based, and Community settings.

Human Services
9
Helping Hands Chore Service Inc

Home care services for older/disabled adults

Human Services
10
Jackson County Board On Aging Inc

To provide nutrition and meal services to jackson county ohio and to supply transportation services to senior citizens, the disabled, and others.

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11
Ohio Heartland Community Action

Operate programs to assist low and moderate income individuals and families.

Human Services
12
Meals on Wheels of Hamilton County

Mowhc supports individuals who are elderly, disabled, and homebound by delivering nutritious meals, reducing hunger, improving health and promoting independence.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheeling Health Right Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
10/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUIST BANK: $346,000 · OtherTRUIST BANKFAMILY SERVICE - UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC: $294,688 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE - UPPER OHIO VALLEY INCTHE GREATER WHEELING COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $269,331 · OtherTHE GREATER WHEELING COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCIndividual grant recipient: $225,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INC: $124,500 · OtherTHE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INCIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+22 more: $281,946 · Other+22 moreLIFE HUB INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesLIFE HUB INCBROOKE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $178,250 · Human ServicesBROOKE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGINGAPPALACHIAN OUTREACH INC: $96,225 · Human ServicesAPPALACHIAN OUTREACH INCHELPING HEROES INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HEROES INCYOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC: $64,400 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INCTHE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC: $54,097 · Human ServicesTHE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INCCOMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $45,045 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOURCES INCOHIO COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK: $40,500 · Human Services+4 more: $54,555 · Human Services+4 moreSEEING HAND ASSOCIATION INC: $90,500 · EmploymentGROW OHIO VALLEY INC: $78,500 · Food & NutritionOLD MAN RIVERS MISSION: $67,000 · Housing & ShelterA CARING PLACE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $35,000 · Crime & LegalCASA FOR CHILDREN INC: $12,500 · Crime & LegalWHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC: $20,000 · Health
Other$1,641,465Human Services$823,072Employment$90,500Food & Nutrition$78,500Housing & Shelter$67,000Crime & Legal$47,500Health$20,000

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 budgetFAMILY SERVICE - UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC: $294,688 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetTHE GREATER WHEELING COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $269,331 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetLIFE HUB INC: $225,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetBROOKE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $178,250 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetTHE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INC: $124,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetAPPALACHIAN OUTREACH INC: $96,225 over 2y, 23% of budgetSEEING HAND ASSOCIATION INC: $90,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetGROW OHIO VALLEY INC: $78,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetOLD MAN RIVERS MISSION: $67,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHELPING HEROES INC: $65,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC: $64,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC: $54,097 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $45,045 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOHIO COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK: $40,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetBROOKE HANCOCK FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $15,055 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN INC: $12,500 over 1y, 3.7% 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.

Community Foundation …Francis J and Edith J…Hess Family FoundationAlbert Schenk III & K…Vna Home Support Serv…August J & Thelma S H…Raymond A & Gertrude …United Way of the Upp…Elizabeth Stifel Klin…Bernard McDonough Fou…Rosemary M Front Char…James B Chambers Memo…
Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley IncWV28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Helping Hand Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helping Hand Foundation. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Helping Hand Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Helping Hand Foundation 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 46 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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