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Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Religion$29kHuman Services$26kYouth Development$18kHealth$16kRecreation & Sports$15kArts & Culture$8kCommunity Improvement$3kEducation$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,846
Median grant
1
States reached
$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$7,846
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 (FY17–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NARROW GATE FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%PORTER'S CALL: $3k → 4%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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35k · 4 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +186% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
19

Total granted

$35k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+186%
+37%

Still filing today

50%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesInternationalHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TF
    THISTLE FARMS INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue +186%
  • TR
    The Red Road Inc
    2× · 2018–2021 · $5k · revenue +77%
  • PR
    PCA REFORMED UNIVERSITY MINISTRIES
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k

Funded once

  • BR
    BAREFOOT REPUBLIC CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • MT
    MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • SJ
    ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
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.

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Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
2
Remade Ministries

Eradicate biblical illiteracy and christian isolation

—
3
Free to Worship Ministries

This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.

Religion
4
Repairing the Breach Ministries Inc
Religion
5
One in the Spirit Ministries
Religion
6
Praise Broadcasting Inc

Praise broadcasting's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experiencing jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where…

Religion
7
Color Green Ministries

The mission of color green ministries is: to tell the world jesus loves them through art, movies and ministry.

Religion
8
Redeemed & Restored

Our mission is simple yet profound, changing lives through christ. we want to help individuals come to christ, being redeemed by his blood and restored and transformed by his word. our goal is to assist individuals struggling with…

Health
9
The Redeemed Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Transform Ministries
—
11
Music Serving the Word Ministries
Religion
12
Relationship With Jesus Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Connect Inc; the most unlike its peers is Reformed Church of Los Angeles. 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

13 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. 13 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THISTLE FARMS INC: $22,500 · OtherTHISTLE FARMS INCBAREFOOT REPUBLIC CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER: $15,000 · OtherBAREFOOT REPUBLIC CAMP AND RETREAT CENTERMIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS: $12,500 · OtherMIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTSIndividual grant recipient: $7,846 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH: $7,500 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCHPCA REFORMED UNIVERSITY MINISTRIES: $4,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH PENTECOSTAL: $3,000 · Other+6 more: $11,900 · Other+6 moreThe Red Road Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesPORTERS CALL: $2,500 · Human ServicesNARROW GATE FOUNDATION: $500 · Human ServicesREFORMED CHURCH OF LOS ANGELES: $4,000 · ReligionJENNIFER ONEILL MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 · ReligionTouchstone Youth Rescue Services Inc: $750 · ReligionFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,500 · HealthPROJECT CONNECT INC: $1,000 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC: $1,000 · International
Other$84,246Human Services$8,000Religion$7,750Arts & Culture$5,000Youth Development$5,000Health$2,500International$2,000

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

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
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.

The Community Foundat…The Signatry Charitab…Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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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