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Paul Hellman Foundation

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.

$11k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,338
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,866
Organizations funded a year
3 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$212k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Paul Hellman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesInternationalPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$11k63%
FY20236$11k50%
FY20227$11k71%
FY20213$13k0%
FY20205$8k80%
FY201914$12k29%
FY201812$12k33%
FY201716$12kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$16kCrime & Legal$13kInternational$11kEnvironment$10kCivil Rights$9kHealth$9kPublic Benefit$9kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
NJ
CA
MD
TN
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul Hellman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommon Cause Education Fund: $8,936 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJeremiah Program: $8,157 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for Rainforest Nations Secretariat: $7,085 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $4,226 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNy Community Fridge Corp: $4,176 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEverytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc: $4,024 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $3,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGivedirectly Inc: $3,103 over 2y, 0.0% of budget350org: $2,853 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,761 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals International: $2,630 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $2,485 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Global Inc: $2,298 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Life You Can Save: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brigid Alliance Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metrowest Free Medical Program Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,765 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Immigration Council: $1,559 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetavivor Research and Support Inc: $1,559 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Immigration Coalition Inc: $1,338 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Call NYC: $1,151 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAction Against Hunger - USA: $1,148 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $1,145 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamfed USA Foundation: $1,144 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $861 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeeds of Peace Inc: $573 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Arms Control and: $573 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $382 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Contra Costa and Solano: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About Paul Hellman Foundation

How much does Paul Hellman Foundation give?
Paul Hellman Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $11,466 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Paul Hellman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Crime & Legal (14%), International (11%).
Who are Paul Hellman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Common Cause Education Fund ($9k), Jeremiah Program ($8k), Coalition for Rainforest Nations Secretariat ($7k).
Does Paul Hellman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul Hellman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Paul Hellman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Paul Hellman Foundation based?
Paul Hellman Foundation is based in NY.

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 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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