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Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,846
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,846
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$16k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’23
Human ServicesInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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 arriving1$8k100%
FY20234$24k100%
FY20212$4k50%
FY20194$8k50%
FY20189$39k89%
FY20178$33kn/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.

Religion$29kHuman Services$26kYouth Development$18kHealth$16kRecreation & Sports$15kArts & Culture$8kCommunity Improvement$3kEducation$1kOther$0

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Thistle Farms Inc$22,50020%
Fractured Atlas Inc$5,00010%
The Red Road Inc$5,00021%
Barefoot Republic Inc$5,00010%
Pca Reformed University Ministries$4,0002n/a
Reformed Church of Los Angeles$4,0001n/a
Jennifer Oneill Ministries Inc$3,00012%
Christ Church Pentecostal$3,0002n/a
The Catherine H Tuck Foundation$2,50013%
Breakthrough T1d$2,50010%
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All grantees of Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Thistle Farms Inc$22,50020%
Fractured Atlas Inc$5,00010%
The Red Road Inc$5,00021%
Barefoot Republic Inc$5,00010%
Pca Reformed University Ministries$4,0002n/a
Reformed Church of Los Angeles$4,0001n/a
Jennifer Oneill Ministries Inc$3,00012%
Christ Church Pentecostal$3,0002n/a
The Catherine H Tuck Foundation$2,50013%
Breakthrough T1d$2,50010%
Porters Call$2,50010%
Starfish Infertility Foundation$2,0001n/a
Bridgeway Church$1,0251n/a
Project Connect Inc$1,00010%
Operation Smile Inc$1,00010%
Touchstone Youth Rescue Services Inc$75011%
Narrow Gate Foundation$50010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThistle Farms Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Red Road Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBarefoot Republic Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJennifer Oneill Ministries Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Catherine H Tuck Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPorters Call: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetProject Connect Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTouchstone Youth Rescue Services Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNarrow Gate Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 12.

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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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About Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation

How much does Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation give?
Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $7,846 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Human Services (22%), Youth Development (15%).
Who are Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Thistle Farms Inc ($23k), Fractured Atlas Inc ($5k), The Red Road Inc ($5k).
Does Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Signatry Charitable Trust, Servant Foundation.
Where is Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation based?
Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation is based in TN.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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