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Robert Helmand 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.

$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Health$45kAnimals$13kReligion$13kFood & Nutrition$12kHuman Services$8kRecreation & Sports$2kEducation$500Environment$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship$6,575
Hospice of the Valley$5,000
St Marys Food Bank$5,000
Society of St Vincent de Paul$5,000
Family Promise$3,000
Wild at Heart$2,000
Cascade Aquatic & Recreation Center$2,000
Heifer International$2,000
Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center$2,000
Puppies behind the Bars$2,000
Mayo Clinic$1,500
Concerned Citizens for Community Health$500
Glorian$500
The Be Kind People Project$500
McDowell Sonoran Conservancy$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Hospice of the Valley: $5k → 11%Hospice of the Valley: $1k → 11%Hospice of the Valley: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$81k · 7 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$81k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+642%

Still filing today

86%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthReligionAnimalsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • CT
    CAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +8%
  • DC
    DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
    5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +41%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • PG
    PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +3%
  • SF
    SCOTT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $300 · revenue +642%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Scottsdale Recovery Continued

To provide a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment for individuals struggling with substance use disorders

Health
3
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
4
Arizona Humane Society

We save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.

Animals
5
Arizona Land and Water Trust Inc

Arizona land and water trust has been a trusted partner to ranchers and farmers of southern arizona for over 40 years. the trust achieves its mission to protect land and water by working with private landowners (continued on schedule o)who…

Environment
6
Scottsdale Leadership Inc

Leadership development training for current and emerging community leaders, including seminars, workshops, and field trips conducted in the city of scottsdale arizona.

Education
7
Desert Discovery Center Scottsdale

The mission of the desert discovery center scottsdale is to educate and inspire people to value and thrive in desert environments through transformative experiences based on global scientific study.

8
Scottsdale Arts

To create arts in diverse experiences that engage the community though the development of new and exciting cultural initiatives for the community; the encouragement of active participation and cooperation of the government, business,…

Arts & Culture
9
Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest

We stabilize people during crisis and transition, build a foundation where people can thrive, and preserve dignity and respect for the most vulnerable.

Religion
10
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
11
Ymca of Southern Arizona

Ymca of southern arizona is dedicated to improving the quality of human life and helping all people realize their fullest potential through the development of spirit, mind and body. we are a powerful association of men, women and children,…

Human Services
12
Arizona Center for Nature Conservation

The arizona center for nature conservation advances the stewardship and conservation of animals and their habitats while providing experiences that inspire people and motivate them to care for the natural world.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scottsdale Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Wild At Heart 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC — $35,534 · HealthCAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC+1 more — $500 · HealthFamily Promise — $5,000 · OtherFamily PromiseIndividual grant recipient — $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant re…Puppies behind the Bars — $2,000 · OtherPuppies behind the …Cascade Aquatic & Recreation Center — $2,000 · OtherCascade Aquatic & R…Heifer International — $2,000 · OtherHeifer Internationa…Mayo Clinic — $1,500 · OtherMayo Clinic+4 more — $1,600 · Other+4 moreDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $12,000 · ReligionDIOCESAN COUNCI…PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $1,000 · ReligionPHOENIX GOSPEL …SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER — $6,200 · AnimalsSOUTHWEST WIL…WILD AT HEART INC — $5,000 · AnimalsWILD AT HEART…ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $10,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FO…Hospice of the Valley — $7,000 · Human ServicesMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY — $500 · Environment
Health$36,034Other$16,600Religion$13,000Animals$11,200Food & Nutrition$10,000Human Services$7,000Environment$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC — $35,534 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Valley — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER — $6,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILD AT HEART INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
  • Who funds Hospice of the Valley
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER
  • Who funds WILD AT HEART INC
  • Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION
  • Who funds MCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS
  • Who funds SCOTT FOUNDATION

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Helmand Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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