· Private foundation
The Helm Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LARK THEATRE COMPANY | $55,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $50,000 |
| THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE | $27,500 |
| ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION, INC. | $10,000 |
| SISTERS ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE, INC. | $7,500 |
| KIPP BALTIMORE, INC | $5,000 |
| ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY | $5,000 |
| MD FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| THE HAMPDEN FAMILY CENTER, INC. | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIEND SERVICE COMMITTEE | $2,500 |
| GREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| HELPING UP MISSION OF BALTIMORE CITY, INC. | $1,000 |
| CARROLL LUTHERAN VILLAGE INC | $500 |
| ARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS (AEMS) | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY2× · 2019–2020 · $350k · revenue +33%
- KBKIPP BALTIMORE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +24%
- EPENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -25%
- TTTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +55%
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.
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.
Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…
Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…
The organization's mission is to solicit and receive contributions and grants from the general public and to hold, invest, and administer these funds and pay expenditures for the benefit of the university of maryland in baltimore and to…
Promote religious, charitable, and educational interests of its members and constituent monthly meetings.
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
Johns hopkins community physicians, inc (jhcp), a valued member of johns hopkins medicine, is a network of medical practices strategically positioned throughout communities in maryland and dc. we strive to meet the needs of each community…
To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…
The mission of baltimore community lending is supporting the revitalization and strengthening of underserved communities in the greater baltimore region through innovative financial solutions and collaborative resources designed to promote…
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…
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LARK THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KIPP BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds WALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Hampden Family Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL LUTHERAN VILLAGE 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.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · Dr Frank C Marino Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Helm Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Helm Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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