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· Public charity

Helping Hands Ministries Inc

To assist individuals whom are "down and out- and to spread the gospel of jesus christ through evangelistic means by distributing literature.

$22M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$4.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

67% of Helping Hands Ministries Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Nema Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’17
0
’18
3
’19
0
’20
2
’21
2
’22
1
’23
6
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$36MHuman Services$6.4MReligion$1.6MInternational$190kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $6,964,143, the rows itemized in this filing. The $21,994,390 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,030,247 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $533k
  • $250k+5 grants · $6.4M
$506,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEMA FOUNDATION$4,339,948
HARP'S CROSSING BAPTIST CHURCH$750,000
ASSOCIACAO LIFESHAPE BRASIL$525,000
LORDSHIP FOUNDATION INC$506,000
HELPING HANDS SUPPORT INC$309,964
AMAZING GRACE CHURCH$225,000
HOPE AND HEALING INTERNATIONAL$190,000
HELPING HANDS CHARITABLE INC$118,231
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HELPING HANDS CHARITABLE INC: $118k → 9%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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 4 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$2.2M
$632k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-31%
+81%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $774k · revenue ×103
  • LF
    LORDSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $752k · revenue -31% · 93% of their budget
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS CHARITABLE INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $389k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • TB
    THE BIBLE FOR YOU INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $112k · revenue +65%
  • LB
    Larry Burkett Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +81%
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
His Glory Ministries Inc

Our mission is to bring the light of Gods love to every corner of the world through evangelism and teaching Gods Word. We seek to transform lives one soul at a time and build a world where everyone can experience Gods love.

Religion
2
Helping Hands Ministries Inc

To assist individuals whom are "down and out- and to spread the gospel of jesus christ through evangelistic means by distributing literature.

Human Services
3
God Is Great Foundation

The organization provided funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc. ("nccf").

Philanthropy
4
Ncf Corporation

The corporation serves as charitable trustee for ncf charitable trust, a grant making organization, and supporting organization of national christian charitable foundation, inc.

Philanthropy
5
National Christian Foundation -- Wisconsin Inc

Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.

Religion
6
National Christian Foundation Real Property Inc

To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc. ("nccf")

Religion
7
Global Impact Resources Inc

Global Impact Resources partners with Christian missionaries around the world, providing spiritual support and practical administration to make the fundraising side of ministry an easier process.The organization provides credibility,…

International
8
The Global Charitable Foundation

To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of nccf.

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9
Austin Charis Foundation

To provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc. ("nccf")

Philanthropy
10
Creation Investments Foundation Inc

The organization provided funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc. ("nccf").

Philanthropy
11
Practical Christianity Foundation
Religion
12
Daily Living Ministries Inc

To bring the light of god's word to the darkness of the world in applying the gospels catholic liturgy and the teachings of jesus christ into daily living of all people.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lordship Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hope & Healing International. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEMA FOUNDATION INC: $39,025,640 · PhilanthropyNEMA FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $1,775,135 · PhilanthropyHELPING HANDS SUPPORT INC: $1,352,083 · ReligionLIFESHAPE INC: $525,000 · ReligionHope & Healing International: $190,000 · ReligionHARPS CROSSING BAPTIST CHURCH: $750,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherHELPING HANDS CHARITABLE INC: $388,805 · OtherAMAZING GRACE CHURCH: $225,000 · OtherTHE BIBLE FOR YOU INC: $112,091 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherHELPING HANDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $118,231 · Human ServicesLarry Burkett Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Health
Philanthropy$40,800,775Religion$2,067,083Other$1,985,896Human Services$118,231Health$10,000

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 budgetNEMA FOUNDATION INC: $39,025,640 over 8y, 31% of budgetHELPING HANDS SUPPORT INC: $1,352,083 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetLORDSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $752,100 over 2y, 93% of budgetHEALTHY HOMES MINISTRIES INC: $248,539 over 2y, 100% of budgetHELPING HANDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $118,231 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BIBLE FOR YOU INC: $112,091 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

Lordship Foundation I…Helping Hands Support…Natl Christian Charit…
Lordship Foundation IncFL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lordship Foundation Inc · Helping Hands Support Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Ministries Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helping Hands Ministries Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%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
    5get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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

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    How do I get to Helping Hands Ministries Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Helping Hands Ministries Inc 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 15 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 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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