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St Helena Foundation

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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Animals$635kEducation$320kReligion$110kHousing & Shelter$44kHuman Services$27kHealth$19kRecreation & Sports$10kPublic Benefit$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS$8,000
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $30k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 9%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 9%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
NY
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
MS
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 12 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
17

Total granted

$1.1M
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+15%

Still filing today

83%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $320k · revenue +46%
  • MZ
    Motley Zoo Animal Rescue
    2× · 2021–2022 · $300k · revenue +24%
  • HW
    Humane World for Animals International
    3× · 2021–2024 · $261k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • AH
    ALEXANDRIA HOUSE
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +12%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • TH
    THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +54%
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.

1
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
2
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
3
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
4
Animal Humane Society

Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…

Animals
5
Hope for China Dogs Rescue

At Hope for China Dogs, we are committed to combating the cruel and inhumane practice of the dog meat trade in China. We believe that every dog deserves to live a life free from pain and suffering, and we are dedicated to rescuing and…

Animals
6
Lawrence Humane Society

The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community

Animals
7
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
8
Animal Welfare League of Alexandria

The mission of the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria is to inspire compassion for all living things, to provide shelter to animals in need, and to promote adoptions, animal welfare, and responsible pet ownership. Our belief that all…

Animals
9
Paws Need People

Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.

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10
Noah's Animal House Foundation

To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.

Animals
11
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
12
Best Friends Animal Society

To bring about a time when there are no more homeless pets. we do this by demonstrating and promoting exemplary animal care and building community programs and partnerships.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals International. 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

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
19/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Motley Zoo Animal Rescue: $300,000 · AnimalsMotley Zoo Animal RescueHumane World for Animals International: $260,628 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals InternationalHumane World for Animals Inc: $30,000 · Animals+6 more: $44,350 · Animals+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $320,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUND…MISSIONARY OBLATES OF MARY IMMACULATE: $110,000 · OtherMISSIONARY OBLAT…THE SALVATION ARMY: $15,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION AR…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant…Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States: $7,000 · Other+8 more: $27,000 · Other+8 moreALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $30,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $9,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesFOOD LIFELINE: $2,000 · Food & NutritionPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $1,000 · Public BenefitCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Animals$634,978Education$320,000Other$169,000Human Services$55,500Food & Nutrition$2,000Public Benefit$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $320,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMotley Zoo Animal Rescue: $300,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetHumane World for Animals International: $260,628 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars of The United States: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART SO MISSIONS HOUSING: $4,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRing Dog Rescue Inc: $1,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREAMCHASER PMU HORSE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization St Helena Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St Helena Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to St Helena Foundation?

Find your warmest path to St Helena Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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