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Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2023
52
Itemized grants FY2023
52
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$642k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
37 to 52
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
4
Total assets, FY2023
$23M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202352$642k38%
FY202237$569kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$6.8MHealth$374kReligion$156kHuman Services$150kEducation$122kArts & Culture$104kHousing & Shelter$83kAnimals$51kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Carilion Clinic Foundation$325,00022%
Roanoke Area Ministries$100,00026%
Family Promise of Greater Roanoke$80,000210%
Jewish Community Preschool Inc$68,00026%
Jefferson Center Foundation Ltd$40,00021%
Apple Ridge Farm Inc$34,00024%
Mill Mountain Playhouse Co Inc Dba Mill Mountain Theatre$27,50021%
Grandin Theatre Foundation Inc$21,50021%
Presbyterian Community Center$20,00021%
St John Neumann Academy$17,50021%
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All grantees of Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Carilion Clinic Foundation$325,00022%
Roanoke Area Ministries$100,00026%
Family Promise of Greater Roanoke$80,000210%
Jewish Community Preschool Inc$68,00026%
Jefferson Center Foundation Ltd$40,00021%
Apple Ridge Farm Inc$34,00024%
Mill Mountain Playhouse Co Inc Dba Mill Mountain Theatre$27,50021%
Grandin Theatre Foundation Inc$21,50021%
Presbyterian Community Center$20,00021%
St John Neumann Academy$17,50021%
Lovable Services Inc$15,0001n/a
The Rescue Mission of Roanoke Inc$15,00010%
Adult Care Center of Roanoke Valley Inc$10,00021%
Henry Fork Service Center$7,50023%
Taubman Museum of Art$7,50010%
ROANOKE CHILDRENS THEATRE INC dba VIRGINIA CHILDRENS THEATRE$6,50021%
National D-Day Memorial Foundation$6,00020%
Friendship Foundation$5,00010%
Roanoke Higher Education Center Foundation$5,00014%
Impact Living Services$5,00010%
Free Clinic of Franklin County Inc$4,00011%
Va Foundation for Independent Colleges$4,00020%
Boxfit$3,0001n/a
Hope's Legacy Equine Rescue Inc$3,00020%
Habitat for Humanity in the Roanoke Valley Inc$3,00010%
Tudor House$3,00013%
University of the Cumberlands Inc$2,00020%
Opera Roanoke$1,00010%
Roanoke Valley Speech & Hearing Center Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($371k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCarilion Clinic Foundation: $325,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetRoanoke Area Ministries: $100,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetFamily Promise of Greater Roanoke: $80,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetJewish Community Preschool Inc: $68,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetJefferson Center Foundation Ltd: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetApple Ridge Farm Inc: $34,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMill Mountain Playhouse Co Inc Dba Mill Mountain Theatre: $27,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGrandin Theatre Foundation Inc: $21,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPresbyterian Community Center: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSt John Neumann Academy: $17,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Rescue Mission of Roanoke Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAdult Care Center of Roanoke Valley Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHenry Fork Service Center: $7,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTaubman Museum of Art: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROANOKE CHILDRENS THEATRE INC dba VIRGINIA CHILDRENS THEATRE: $6,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNational D-Day Memorial Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriendship Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoanoke Higher Education Center Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetImpact Living Services: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFree Clinic of Franklin County Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVa Foundation for Independent Colleges: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHope's Legacy Equine Rescue Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity in the Roanoke Valley Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTudor House: $3,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetUniversity of the Cumberlands Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOpera Roanoke: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRoanoke Valley Speech & Hearing Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 27.

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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.

Community Foundation …Edgar a Thurman Fdn C…Robertson Family Foun…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Newbern FoundationCarilion Medical Cent…The Ceres Foundation …Evelyn F James Founda…Cartledge Charitable …United Way of Virgini…Muse Family Foundatio…Roanoke Womens Founda…
Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA44.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Newbern Foundation · Carilion Medical Center · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Evelyn F James Foundation · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc · Muse Family Foundation Co Elizabeth Muse · Roanoke Womens 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 Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation

How much does Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation give?
Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation reported 52 itemized grants totaling $642,000, out of $1,285,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 52 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (72%), Health (4%), Religion (2%).
Who are Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2023: Carilion Clinic Foundation ($325k), Roanoke Area Ministries ($100k), Family Promise of Greater Roanoke ($80k).
Does Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect, Robertson Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation based?
Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation is based in VA.

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 57 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.3M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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