How much does R L & Elsa Helvering Estate Trust give?

R L & Elsa Helvering Estate Trust reported 30 grants totaling $84,400 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.

What does R L & Elsa Helvering Estate Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Philanthropy (13%), Public Benefit (12%).

Who are R L & Elsa Helvering Estate Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Marshall County Historical Societyinc ($29k), Community Memorial Healthcare Inc ($20k), Pony Express Partnership for Children Inc ($14k).

Does R L & Elsa Helvering Estate Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does R L & Elsa Helvering Estate Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as R L & Elsa Helvering Estate Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Guise-Weber Foundation Inc, Greater Manhattan Community Foundation.

Where is R L & Elsa Helvering Estate Trust based?

R L & Elsa Helvering Estate Trust is based in KS.

R L & Elsa Helvering Estate Trust

R L & Elsa Helvering Estate Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

R L & Elsa Helvering Estate Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$84k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$54k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$172kPhilanthropy$60kPublic Benefit$58kCommunity Improvement$33kHuman Services$24kHealth$20kRecreation & Sports$20kHousing & Shelter$19kOther$0

02FY2026 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k29 grants · $30k
$50k–250k1 grant · $54k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$54,000
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$2,000
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$2,000
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$2,000
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$2,000
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$2,000
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$2,000
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$2,000
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,000
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,000
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,000
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,000
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,000
RSVP OF NE KANSAS	$1,000
MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY20–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$502k · 29 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$502k

$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%

Still filing today

21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

CM
COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +12%
PE
PONY EXPRESS PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC
3× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +79%
KH
KOESTER HOUSE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +129%

Funded once

MC
MARSHALL CO AGENCY ON AGING
one grant, 2021 · $8k
FR
FOUR RIVER HOUSING FOR
one grant, 2024 · $5k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

Haskell County Historical Society Haskell County Historical Society

To restore and preserve historical structures and memorabilia

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Holt county historical society

Holt co history

Arts & Culture

Marshall Chamber of Commerce

To promote business in marshall and the surrounding communitites and to promote a quality of life to support strong business.

—

The Cowley County Historical Society

The museum collects and preserves memorabilia of cowley county, kansas. the museum is open to the public during scheduled hours, and is staffed by a combination of volunteers and staff.

—

Kansas Business Hall of Fame Inc

—

Kittson County Historical Society

Dedicated to the discovery, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge which will esstablish and illustrate the history of kittson county.

—

Marshall County Nonprofit Partnership Foundation

—

Karnes County Historical Society

—

Madison County Historical Society

Arts & Culture

North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc

Community Improvement

Friends of Margaret Harwell Art Mus

Support the margaret harwell art museum

Philanthropy

Markesan Historical Society

—

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Memorial Healthcare Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pony Express Partnership for Children 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 55 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

7/8

Grantees still filing

4/8

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$469,690Arts & Culture$49,500Health$20,000Youth Development$13,500Recreation & Sports$2,500

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.

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 Guise-Weber Foundation IncKS17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Guise-Weber Foundation Inc · Greater Manhattan Community 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 R L & Elsa Helvering Estate Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R L & Elsa Helvering Estate Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get 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 · 0–15%

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.

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