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The Helen Hudson Foundation for Homeless America Inc

The helen hudson foundation will continue the work originally undertaken by the family of helen hudson to help alleviate the plight of the homeless in america.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$147kInternational$23kEnvironment$15kHuman Services$12kArts & Culture$11kHealth$7kCivil Rights$6kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$500
Median grant
9
States reached
$496k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless$13,500
134 Collaborative$2,400
Doctors Without Borders$1,200
RI Community Food Bank$1,200
RISCC$1,000
Southern Poverty Law Center$900
WSHU$700
International Campaign for Tibet$600
Amnesty International$600
ACLU$600
The Gamm Theatre$600
Planned Parenthood$600
The Nature Conservancy$500
WGBH Educational Foundation$500
Providence Preservation Society$500
02The need
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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 (FY20–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Night Ministry: $1k → 14%The Night Ministry: $1k → 14%The Night Ministry: $200 → 14%Gotta Have Sole Foundation: $400 → 14%Nonviolence Institute: $200 → 14%Open Doors: $300 → 14%Open Doors: $200 → 14%134 Collaborative: $3k → 14%134 Collaborative: $2k → 14%134 Collaborative: $2k → 14%134 Collaborative: $2k → 14%Providence Rescue Mission: $2k → 14%Providence Rescue Mission: $1k → 14%Providence Rescue Mission: $800 → 14%Providence Rescue Mission: $200 → 14%Providence Rescue Mission: $200 → 14%American Red Cross: $200 → 14%American Red Cross: $150 → 14%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

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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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$213k · 40 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
29

Total granted

$213k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

68%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • RI
    RHODE ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +242%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +39%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    5× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TM
    The Miriam Hospital Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +439%
  • CB
    CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • HN
    Housing Network of RI
    one grant, 2020 · $750
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.

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World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
2
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.

International
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Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
6
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
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Relief International Inc

Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. relief…

International
8
Refugee Protection International Inc

Rpi's mission is to partner with local non-gov organizations and others to strengthen protection and self-reliance among refugees and internally displaced persons near conflict zones.

International
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International
11
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
12
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Artists for a Better World 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

44 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. 44 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
26/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RHODE ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $100,050 · Housing & ShelterRHODE ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC+1 more: $2,200 · Housing & ShelterTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYRI Community Food Bank: $6,100 · OtherRI Community Food BankGREENPEACE INC: $5,400 · OtherGREENPEACE INCIndividual grant recipient: $4,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPlanned Parenthood: $3,900 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodAmnesty International: $3,750 · OtherAmnesty InternationalHeifer International: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherNotable Works: $2,700 · OtherBIBLE MISSION INTERNATIONAL: $3,500 · Other+38 more: $26,425 · Other+38 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $6,100 · InternationalUNITED STAT…INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $3,950 · InternationalINTERNATION…OXFAM-AMERICA INC: $2,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERI…THE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION INC: $1,200 · International+4 more: $800 · International134 Collaborative: $8,300 · Human ServicesRHODE ISLAND RESCUE MINISTRIES: $4,250 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $2,200 · Human Services+4 more: $1,450 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $6,022 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON OBSERVER INC: $1,450 · Arts & CultureARTISTS FOR A BETTER WORLD INTERNATIONAL: $1,100 · Arts & CultureRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE: $900 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation: $800 · Arts & CultureRhode Island Hospital Foundation: $5,500 · HealthThe Miriam Hospital Foundation: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,350 · Crime & Legal
Housing & Shelter$102,250Other$69,075International$23,050Human Services$16,200Arts & Culture$11,272Health$6,600Crime & Legal$5,350

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRHODE ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $100,050 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget134 Collaborative: $8,300 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $6,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $6,022 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRhode Island Hospital Foundation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $5,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND RESCUE MINISTRIES: $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $3,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE MISSION INTERNATIONAL: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $2,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMOS HOUSE: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON OBSERVER INC: $1,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS FOR A BETTER WORLD INTERNATIONAL: $1,100 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE A WILEY CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPENDOORS: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOTTA HAVE SOLE FOUNDATION INC: $400 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $75 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.

  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds 134 Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Rhode Island Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND RESCUE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE MISSION INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
  • Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON OBSERVER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS FOR A BETTER WORLD INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds The Miriam Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗

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 Rhode Island Comm…Citizens Charitable F…Amica Companies Found…The Champlin Foundati…United Way of Rhode I…Ida Ballou Littlefiel…The Beacon FoundationRalph R Papitto & Bar…Textron Charitable Tr…Mabel T Woolley TrustGertrude N & Seebert …The Pearle W & Martin…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI28.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · The Beacon Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Mabel T Woolley Trust · Gertrude N & Seebert J Goldowsky Foundation · The Pearle W & Martin M Silverstein 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 The Helen Hudson Foundation for Homeless America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Helen Hudson Foundation for Homeless America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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Find your warmest path to The Helen Hudson Foundation for Homeless America Inc 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 76 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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