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Helppie Family Charitable Foundtn
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GUIDANCE CENTER | $110,000 |
| EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $16,280 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $11,375 |
| FAIRHAVEN BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,400 |
| PURPLE ROSE THEATER | $2,000 |
| ESCOT YOUTH DEVELOPMENT | $1,021 |
| BETTIE D GONZALEZ FNDTN OF HOP | $1,000 |
| CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS | $1,000 |
| ST PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $550 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $518 |
| WORLDWIDE INDIGENOUS SCIENCE NETWOR | $500 |
| HEALTHNET FOUNDATION | $500 |
| T WALL FOUNDATION | $310 |
| LUTHERAN HOUR MINISTRIES | $309 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII | $300 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 36% of Helppie Family Charitable Foundtn’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 65% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TGTHE GUIDANCE CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $440k · revenue +45%
- SJST JOSEPH MERCY CHELSEA INC6× · 2017–2022 · $128k · revenue +29%
- LDLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- EMEisenhower Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue +70%
- THTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGANgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +33%
- TPTHE PURPLE ROSE THEATRE COMPANYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +58%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is The a Scott Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 81 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHAMPIONS OF WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH MERCY CHELSEA INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE PURPLE ROSE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE INDIGENOUS SCIENCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE A SCOTT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETTIE D GONZALEZ FOUNDATION OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds T WALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ESCOT YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CANYONLANDS FIELD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS DIRECTION FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · Dte Energy Foundation · The Carls Foundation · Orsa Foundation · Eagles for Children · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Comerica Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Helppie Family Charitable Foundtn funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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