Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Helping Hands Foundation Inc
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.
- $813k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $103,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $153,823
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Helping Hands Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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 | 8 | $813k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $893k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $743k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $796k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $400k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $753k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $762k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $789k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Give Kids the World Inc | $1,224,778 | 8 | 1% |
| Place of Hope Inc | $1,210,586 | 9 | 1% |
| The Crossroads Foundation | $750,844 | 7 | 11% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh | $676,541 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation | $535,332 | 9 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $469,099 | 8 | 0% |
| Angels of Hope a Family Cancer Foundation | $428,478 | 9 | 12% |
| West Jupiter Community Group Inc | $226,244 | 2 | 9% |
| Best Buddies International Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Winners Circle Charities Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 93% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Give Kids the World Inc | $1,224,778 | 8 | 1% |
| Place of Hope Inc | $1,210,586 | 9 | 1% |
| The Crossroads Foundation | $750,844 | 7 | 11% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh | $676,541 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation | $535,332 | 9 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $469,099 | 8 | 0% |
| Angels of Hope a Family Cancer Foundation | $428,478 | 9 | 12% |
| West Jupiter Community Group Inc | $226,244 | 2 | 9% |
| Best Buddies International Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Winners Circle Charities Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 93% |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $29,143 | 4 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($939k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Helping Hands Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
About Helping Hands Foundation Inc
- How much does Helping Hands Foundation Inc give?
- Helping Hands Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $812,856 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Helping Hands Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (45%), Human Services (38%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are Helping Hands Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Give Kids the World Inc ($1.2M), Place of Hope Inc ($1.2M), The Crossroads Foundation ($751k).
- Does Helping Hands Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helping Hands Foundation Inc 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 Helping Hands Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Helping Hands Foundation Inc based?
- Helping Hands Foundation Inc is based in PA.
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