Michigan · Private foundation
Here to Help Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3,428
- Grants FY2025
- 489
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,530
- Organizations funded a year
- 362 to 527
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations Here to Help Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 431 | $743k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 489 | $737k | 58% |
| FY2023 | 463 | $607k | 69% |
| FY2022 | 523 | $583k | 74% |
| FY2021 | 527 | $726k | 84% |
| FY2020 | 362 | $524k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alternatives for Girls | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mariners Inn | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Focushope | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jsl Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Redford Brightmoor Initiative | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 1,993 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Here to Help Foundation
- How much does Here to Help Foundation give?
- Here to Help Foundation reported 3,428 grants totaling $1,038,961 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 362 and 527 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Here to Help Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (48%), Employment (16%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Here to Help Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Alternatives for Girls ($13k), Forgotten Harvest Inc ($10k), Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan ($10k).
- Does Here to Help Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Here to Help Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Here to Help Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Community Foundation for Southeast, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Here to Help Foundation based?
- Here to Help Foundation is based in MI.
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