· Private foundation
The Helm Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVERYBODY'S PLACE | $45,000 |
| QUILLIAN CENTER | $40,000 |
| THE SAMARITAN CENTER | $30,000 |
| NEIGHBORS IN ACTION | $25,000 |
| TOMAGWA MINISTRIES INC | $25,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SCSAMARITAN CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +51%
- NINeighbors In Action Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +7%
DUKE UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- SGSTRATEGIC GLOBAL MISSIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +137%
- COCLUB OUTREACH MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SRST ROSE OF LIMAone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington is a faith-based community partnership bringing together neighbors who face poverty, homelessness, or other debilitating challenges with partner leaders, donors, volunteers, and staff in a shared…
El Buen Samaritano is an outreach ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas committed to recognizing the dignity of all by ensuring access to health care education and essential needs that lead to healthy productive and secure lives.
The mission of New Life Advance International is to develop gifted leaders who will make disciples among the nations, establish ongoing church planting movements, and work for the relief of human suffering.
The mission of First Refuge Ministries is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ by offering essential services to those in need within our community. We care for their spiritual, emotional, and physical needs.
To incarnate and communicate the story of jesus with humility and authenticity, fidelity to scripture, appreciation of the christian tradition, and sensitivity to the needs and aspirations of postmodern culture.
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
The Centers founding mission since 1968 has been to make quality mental health care accessible and to integrate faith and spirituality within the therapy and psychological services provided by its therapists and psychologists.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Committed to the quality of life...unwaivering in achieving excellence. fellowships mission is to be the regions best community-based care facility in every aspect of the services we provide
To provide educational and humanitarian services to those in need for the purpose of advancing Christian values in the United States and other nations
To provide medical and dental care and health education to low-income and uninsured residents of southeast texas.
Siloam's mission is to share the love of christ by serving those in need through health care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marbridge Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Strategic Global Missions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Helm Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.