· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 14 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.
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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.
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