· Private foundation
The Helmar 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of The Helmar Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Helmar Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $45k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| ASPCA | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FUND | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $3,000 |
| THE 92ND STREET Y | $2,500 |
| THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $2,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH OF METRO NY & WESTERN NY | $1,000 |
| TOMORROWS CHILDREN'S FUND | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $361k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue +145%- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS6× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +80%
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -22%
- OSOPERATION SMILEone grant, 2021 · $1k
- MAMAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Please see schedule o
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOMORROWS CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOUSING WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KAREN INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Helmar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Helmar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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