· Private foundation
Robert and Mimie Helm Family Charitable Trust D/B/A Helm Family Charitable Trust
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $87k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE | $50,000 |
| ST LOUIS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $25,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE | $20,000 |
| SISTERS ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE | $17,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SERVICE CORPORATION | $15,000 |
| MARYLAND PROVINCE JESUITS | $10,000 |
| JESUITS MIDWEST PROVINCE (USA MIDWEST PROVINCE OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS INC) | $5,000 |
| FUEL FUND OF MARYLAND | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION4× · 2020–2023 · $108k · revenue +112%- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +16%
- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC5× · 2017–2021 · $20k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $44k · revenue +54%
- MPMARYLAND PROVINCE OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUSone grant, 2022 · $28k
- BCBALTIMORE COUNCIL ON FOREone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Marymount is a nationally ranked comprehensive catholic university, guided by the traditions of the religious of the sacred heart of mary, that emphasizes intellectual curiosity, service to others, and a global perspective. a marymount…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology and the most unlike its peers is The Maryland Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 59 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SERVICE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FUEL FUND OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A STUDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Dr Frank C Marino Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Robert and Mimie Helm Family Charitable Trust D/B/A Helm Family Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- St Vincent De Paul of Baltimore Inc — 47% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 11% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 4% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.