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Lend a Helping Hand Foundation Inc at a glance

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Lend a Helping Hand 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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$37kHealth$18kFood & Nutrition$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kEnvironment$4kEducation$3kHousing & Shelter$2kHuman Services$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,073
Median grant
5
States reached
$98k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA$4,000
MAHINDRA FOUNDATION$2,520
Individual grant recipient$2,073
ST JUDE CHILDREN HOSPITAL$2,000
APPNA FOUNDATION$1,000
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 (FY21–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $1k → 7%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $4k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $3k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66k · 11 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
21

Total granted

$66k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+20%

Still filing today

82%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalFood & NutritionHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue +125%
  • FH
    Focus Humanitarian Assistance USA
    5× · 2019–2023 · $13k · revenue +76%
  • FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOPE FOUNDATION USA
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • FI
    FLOODS IN ASSAM & BIHAR
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • SD
    SLUM DWELLERS & FARMERS
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
2
Childfund International Usa

Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…

International
3
Annapurna Global Foundation
Philanthropy
4
World Health Foundation
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5
Aparnas Health Foundation
Philanthropy
6
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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7
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
8
North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

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9
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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10
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
Womens Global Health Network Inc

To promote health and education for women and children in the most underserved and difficult to reach places in the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the World Food Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lig Global Foundation Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE FOUNDATION USA: $5,000 · OtherHOPE FOUNDATION USAFLOODS IN ASSAM & BIHAR: $4,000 · OtherFLOODS IN ASSAM & BIHARAPPNA WATER WELL PROJECT: $3,600 · OtherAPPNA WATER WELL PROJECTIndividual grant recipient: $2,073 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSLUM DWELLERS & FARMERS: $2,000 · OtherSLUM DWELLERS & FARMERSIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAPPNA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS: $1,000 · OtherThe Houston Food Bank: $1,000 · Other+9 more: $3,331 · Other+9 moreFocus Humanitarian Assistance USA: $13,000 · InternationalFocus Humanitarian Assistance …Mahindra Foundation: $7,362 · InternationalMahindra FoundationAGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA: $4,200 · InternationalAGA KHAN FOUNDATION USAST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $13,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'…Children's Hospital Corporation: $500 · HealthLIG GLOBAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyLIG GLOBAL…YOUGIVEGOODS FOUNDATION INC: $500 · PhilanthropyYOUGIVEGOO…FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF…Long Island Cares Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesLong Islan…Feeding America: $2,500 · Food & NutritionAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $1,000 · Food & NutritionCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $500 · Food & NutritionASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OFPAKISTANI-DESCENT OF NORTH AMERICA: $3,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $500 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF ST JOHNS MEDICAL COLLEGE INC: $2,500 · Education
Other$26,004International$24,562Health$14,000Philanthropy$8,000Human Services$8,000Food & Nutrition$4,000Community Improvement$3,500Education$2,500

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 budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFocus Humanitarian Assistance USA: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLIG GLOBAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMahindra Foundation: $7,362 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA: $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST JOHNS MEDICAL COLLEGE INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding America: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUGIVEGOODS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $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 Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · 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 Lend a Helping Hand Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lend a Helping Hand Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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