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Margaret & George Helow Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Margaret & George Helow Family 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.

$255k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$540kEducation$225kHealth$160kHuman Services$145kHousing & Shelter$140kPhilanthropy$65kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kInternational$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bishop Kenny High School$50,000
Holy Family Catholic Church$40,000
San Jose Catholic Church$25,000
IM Sulzbacher Center For the Homeless$20,000
Cathedral Basilica$20,000
FOCUS$20,000
Womens Help Center$10,000
The Guardian Catholic Schools$10,000
Catholic Charities Bureau$10,000
Eternal Word Television Network$10,000
Communita Cenacolo America Inc$10,000
Relevant Radio$5,000
Mercy Ships$5,000
Archdiocese for Military Services$5,000
Thomas More Law Center$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Cathedral Basilica: $20k → 6%St Vincent's Foundation: $50k → 14%Eternal Word Television Network: $10k → 16%FOCUS: $25k → 7%Catholic Relief Services: $15k → 19%Cathedral Basilica: $20k → 6%St Vincent's Foundation: $25k → 14%Eternal Word Television Network: $10k → 16%FOCUS: $25k → 7%Catholic Relief Services: $15k → 19%United Way of Northeast Florida: $10k → 14%Eternal Word Television Network: $10k → 16%FOCUS: $25k → 7%Catholic Relief Services: $10k → 19%United Way of Northeast Florida: $10k → 14%Eternal Word Television Network: $10k → 16%FOCUS: $25k → 7%United Way of Northeast Florida: $10k → 14%Eternal Word Television Network: $10k → 16%FOCUS: $25k → 7%United Way of Northeast Florida: $10k → 14%Eternal Word Television Network: $10k → 16%FOCUS: $20k → 7%Emergency Pregnancy Services: $25k → 14%Emergency Pregnancy Services: $10k → 14%Emergency Pregnancy Services: $10k → 14%Womens Help Center: $10k → 14%Womens Help Center: $10k → 14%San Jose Catholic Church: $25k → 14%San Jose Catholic Church: $25k → 14%San Jose Catholic Church: $25k → 14%San Jose Catholic Church: $25k → 14%Holy Family Catholic Church: $40k → 14%Holy Family Catholic Church: $40k → 14%Holy Family Catholic Church: $40k → 14%Holy Family Catholic Church: $40k → 14%Holy Family Catholic Church: $40k → 14%Holy Family Catholic Church: $40k → 14%IM Sulzbacher Center For the Homeless: $25k → 14%IM Sulzbacher Center For the Homeless: $25k → 14%IM Sulzbacher Center For the Homeless: $25k → 14%Community Foundation of NE Florida: $25k → 14%IM Sulzbacher Center For the Homeless: $25k → 14%IM Sulzbacher Center For the Homeless: $20k → 14%IM Sulzbacher Center For the Homeless: $20k → 14%Bishop Kenny High School: $50k → 14%Bishop Kenny High School: $50k → 14%Bishop Kenny High School: $50k → 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

IL
MI
NY
OH
CO
MD
DC
AL
GA
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 25 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
3

Total granted

$1.5M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+36%

Still filing today

40%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalReligionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IS
    IM SULZBACHER CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +40%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $75k · revenue +500%
  • EW
    ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • FU
    FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +36%
  • PP
    Pilgrims Peace Center
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • LC
    LIFE CAN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +33%
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
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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2
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
3
Sancta Maria Hospital Inc

Faithful to the spirit of the congregation of the daughters of mary, sancta maria nursing facility's mission is to witness christ's compassion, caring and love, reflecting the catholic church's role in the continuation of christ's healing…

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4
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

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5
Amnion Women's Center

Amnion's mission is to share the gospel of jesus christ and to protect and advocate for the sanctity of all human life, born and unborn, through the provision of abortion alternative services that empower mothers to choose life.

Health
6
Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion
7
Women's Care Center Inc

Offer life-affirming choices for pregnancy and sexual health.

Health
8
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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9
Global Health Ministry

We, global health ministry and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. global health ministry is a member of trinity health.

International
10
St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc

As a catholic healthcare ministry, we provide comprehensive and compassionate care that improves the health of the people we serve.

Health
11
Our Lady of Mercy Life Center

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. our lady of mercy life center is a member of st. peter's health…

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12
Life Centers Inc

To affirm the value of life by providing a network of care to those experiencing pregnancy-related decisions by compassionately presenting biblical truth resulting in changed lives to the glory of god. (continued on schedule o)this network…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is St Gerard Campus. 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

15 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. 15 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $240,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCHBISHOP KENNY HIGH SCHOOL: $150,000 · OtherBISHOP KENNY HIGH SCHOOLFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: $145,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTSSan Jose Catholic Church: $100,000 · OtherSan Jose Catholic ChurchST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · OtherST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION INCCommunita Cenacolo America Inc: $60,000 · OtherGUARDIAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $60,000 · OtherCatholic Charities Bureau: $60,000 · OtherEMERGENCY PREGNANCY SERVICES OF JACKSONVILLE INC: $45,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $40,000 · OtherCathedral Basilica: $40,000 · Other+7 more: $120,000 · Other+7 moreIM SULZBACHER CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $140,000 · Housing & ShelterIM SULZBAC…ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $60,000 · ReligionIMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC: $10,000 · ReligionUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMercy Ships International: $25,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $15,000 · InternationalSISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC: $5,000 · InternationalWOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC: $40,000 · HealthTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER: $30,000 · Human ServicesLIFE CAN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $5,000 · Education
Other$1,135,000Housing & Shelter$140,000Religion$70,000Philanthropy$65,000International$45,000Health$40,000Human Services$35,000Education$5,000

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 budgetIM SULZBACHER CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $140,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY PREGNANCY SERVICES OF JACKSONVILLE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetWOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC: $40,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER: $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMercy Ships International: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Gerard Campus: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE CAN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds IM SULZBACHER CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY PREGNANCY SERVICES OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds St Gerard Campus ↗
  • Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
  • Who funds LIFE CAN INC ↗
  • Who funds SISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC ↗

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.

Jack C & Betty a Deme…The Michael Cascone J…T Rowe Price Program …Burton Foundation IncJacksonville Jaguars …Knights of Columbus C…The Community Foundat…Pga Tour IncRenaissance Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…Csx Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…
Jack C & Betty a Demetree Family FoundationFL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jack C & Betty a Demetree Family Foundation · The Michael Cascone Jr & Elizabeth Belyea Cascone Family Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Burton Foundation Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Csx Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Margaret & George Helow Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret & George Helow Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Im Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless Inc: 23% of income from government
  • United Way of Northeast Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 30 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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