Louisiana · Private foundation
The Helis Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2024
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $18,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $554,486
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 66
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $83M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations The Helis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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 | 61 | $2.4M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $2.4M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 66 | $2.5M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $2.8M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $2.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ogden Museum of Southern Art | $3,667,367 | 5 | 26% |
| New Orleans Museum of Art | $1,296,053 | 5 | 3% |
| United Way of Southeast Louisiana | $637,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities | $439,049 | 5 | 5% |
| Arts Council of New Orleans | $410,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Contemporary Arts Center | $355,680 | 5 | 5% |
| Louisiana Childrens Museum | $313,200 | 5 | 2% |
| New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc | $279,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The National World War II Museum Inc | $255,500 | 5 | 0% |
| New Orleans Botanical Garden Foundation | $178,079 | 5 | 20% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Helis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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.
Open a dossier: Goldring Family Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Ella West Freeman Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Woldenberg Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Helis Foundation
- How much does The Helis Foundation give?
- The Helis Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $2,394,486 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 66 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Helis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (77%), Philanthropy (5%), Health (3%).
- Who are The Helis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Ogden Museum of Southern Art ($3.7M), New Orleans Museum of Art ($1.3M), United Way of Southeast Louisiana ($638k).
- Does The Helis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Helis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Helis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Goldring Family Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries, Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation.
- Where is The Helis Foundation based?
- The Helis Foundation is based in LA.
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