· Private foundation
Norman H Helms Jr Charitable Fund
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| GIRLS HAVEN | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY-CARE PRAYER | $2,000 |
| SOME OTHER PLACE | $2,000 |
| NUTRITION SERVICES FOR SENIORS | $2,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARTIES OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS | $2,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $2,000 |
| GOLDEN TRIANGLE AUDUBON SOCIETY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- STSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +16%
- PAPORT ARTHUR HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +117%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- TMTRINITY METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $2k
- MOMUSEUM OF THE GULF COASTone grant, 2022 · $1k
- TTTUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDAATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Christus health foundation of southeast texas serves the philanthropic needs of christus health southeast texas by soliciting and distributing contributions in support of christus health southeast texas.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
To alleviate hunger in the immediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…
Guided by god's love, catholic charities helps people in southeast texas by providing caring, compassionate services and advocating for social justice in collaboration with parishes and communities.
Texas palliative care operates to strengthen and further the goals and purpose of hospice of east texas, a texas non-profit corporation.
Catholic charities-diocese of tyler is a servant of the body of christ engaged in works of mercy to ease suffering of the poor, the hungry, the naked, the sick, the homeless, the immigrant, the least amoung us, our brethren in east texas.…
To further the missions of utsw and thr on a local, regional and national level through the creation of a clinically integrated network of physicians, hospitals and other care providers to deliver healthcare across the continuum and by…
To create an integrated hospital system operating in the dallas area to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves without regard to their ability to pay.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds PORT ARTHUR HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Some Other Place ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas ↗
- Who funds GIRLS' HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Norman H Helms Jr Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman H Helms Jr Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
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