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The Helen Snyder Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$165k
Granted FY2019
40
Grants FY2019
13
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$105kReligion$104kHuman Services$95kInternational$54kEducation$27kFood & Nutrition$27kCommunity Improvement$27kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0
02FY2019 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CPC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE$5,000
HOLIDAY EXPRESS$5,000
ST ANN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
ST NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINE CHURCH$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA$4,500
DEBORAH HOSP FOUNDATION$4,500
CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT$4,500
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$4,500
Individual grant recipient$4,500
Individual grant recipient$4,500
STJOSEPH'S SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$4,500
LIGHT HOUSE INTERNATIONAL$4,500
GOODWILL MISSION$4,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$4,500
ST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL$4,500
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 (FY17–19, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 9%CONVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%CONVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%CONVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%GOOD COUNSEL: $5k → 14%GOOD COUNSEL: $5k → 14%GOOD COUNSEL: $5k → 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

MT
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
MO
KY
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$540k · 46 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2019, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
0

Total granted

$540k
$0

Still filing today

46%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Human ServicesHealthInternationalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyFood & 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

  • CI
    CPC Integrated Health Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +25%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +90%
  • IF
    INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +162%

Funded once

    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
    The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

    To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

    Health
    2
    Lehigh Valley Hospital

    Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

    Health
    3
    Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation

    To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…

    Health
    4
    New York Genome Center Inc

    Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

    Health
    5
    City Harvest Inc

    To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

    Food & Nutrition
    6
    Virtua Medical Group Pa

    The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

    Health
    7
    New York University

    Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

    Education
    8
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

    The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

    Health
    9
    Hunger Free America Inc

    Hunger free america (hfa) is a nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization building the movement to enact the policies and programs needed to end domestic hunger and ensure that all americans have sufficient access to nutritious food.

    —
    10
    The Johns Hopkins Hospital

    For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

    Health
    11
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

    Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

    Health
    12
    Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

    Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

    Health
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jersey City Fire Foundation. 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

    24 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. 24 of the 46 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.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    5
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    23/24
    Grantees still filing
    18/24
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    ST NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINE CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherCPC Integrated Health Inc: $15,000 · OtherST ANN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $13,500 · OtherAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH: $13,500 · OtherEASTER SEALS INC: $13,500 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $13,500 · OtherDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $13,500 · OtherST JUDES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $13,500 · OtherCONCORDIA LEARNING CENTER AT ST JOSEPHS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $13,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $13,500 · OtherGOODWILL MISSION: $13,500 · OtherAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $13,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $13,500 · OtherMARGARET ANNA CUSACK CARE CENTER INC: $13,500 · OtherPERC: $13,500 · OtherUNICEF USA: $13,500 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $13,500 · OtherST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL: $13,500 · Other+12 more: $81,000 · Other+12 moreWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $13,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARR…GOOD COUNSEL INC: $13,500 · Human ServicesGOOD COUNSEL…CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $13,500 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN AP…COVENANT HOUSE: $13,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOU…GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES…American Heart Association Inc: $13,500 · HealthDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $13,500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · HealthLIGHTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $13,500 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $13,500 · InternationalKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC: $13,500 · Community ImprovementSOUTH HUDSON CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $13,500 · Community ImprovementHOLIDAY EXPRESS INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyFeeding America: $13,500 · Food & NutritionUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $13,500 · Public Benefit
    Other$342,000Human Services$61,500Health$40,500International$27,000Community Improvement$27,000Philanthropy$15,000Food & Nutrition$13,500Public Benefit$13,500

    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 budgetCPC Integrated Health Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOLIDAY EXPRESS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD COUNSEL INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH HUDSON CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $13,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARGARET ANNA CUSACK CARE CENTER INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE OF THE WORLD: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN BOXING ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 71% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 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 CPC Integrated Health Inc ↗
    • Who funds HOLIDAY EXPRESS INC ↗
    • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
    • Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
    • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL ↗
    • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
    • Who funds GOOD COUNSEL INC ↗
    • Who funds Feeding America ↗
    • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
    • Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
    • Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
    • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ↗
    • Who funds SOUTH HUDSON CIVIC ASSOCIATION ↗
    • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
    • Who funds MARGARET ANNA CUSACK CARE CENTER INC ↗
    • Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
    • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
    • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
    • Who funds HOPE OF THE WORLD ↗
    • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗

    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.

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    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 Snyder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Helen Snyder Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
    • Cpc Integrated Health Inc: 6% of income from government
    • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
    • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 46 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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