New York · Private foundation
The Helena Segy 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.
- $180k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations The Helena Segy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $175k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $172k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $175k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $188k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $130k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $180k | 23% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $136k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Heart Association Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Grace Institute | $72,500 | 7 | 2% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $37,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition | $37,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc | $34,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Calvary Hospital Inc | $31,500 | 7 | 0% |
| American Institute for Cancer Research | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $20,500 | 7 | 0% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($567k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Helena Segy Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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
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About The Helena Segy Foundation
- How much does The Helena Segy Foundation give?
- The Helena Segy Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $180,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Helena Segy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (43%), Arts & Culture (32%), Employment (5%).
- Who are The Helena Segy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Heart Association Inc ($105k), Grace Institute ($73k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($38k).
- Does The Helena Segy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Helena Segy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Helena Segy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Helena Segy Foundation based?
- The Helena Segy Foundation is based in NY.
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