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The Helming and Knies Family Fndn at a glance

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The Helming and Knies Family Fndn

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.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$190kHousing & Shelter$175kCommunity Improvement$170kFood & Nutrition$60kEducation$55kArts & Culture$50kEnvironment$25kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$308k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TURNING POINTS$35,000
REALIZE BRADENTON INC$35,000
PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDU SER$35,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $20k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$535k · 4 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$535k
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+12%

Still filing today

75%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementFood & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PL
    PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDU SER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $190k
  • CC
    Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points
    5× · 2021–2025 · $175k · revenue -26%
  • RB
    REALIZE BRADENTON INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $140k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • ST
    STAGES THEATRE COMPANY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +51%
  • BOOKER PROMISE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -71%
  • BM
    BISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE NATURE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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2
Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc

The mission of meals on wheels plus of manatee, inc. is to assist individuals to live independently by providing nutrition and caring supportive services.

Food & Nutrition
3
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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4
St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc

With compassion and respect, St. Pete Free Clinic changes lives by providing health care, nutritious food, recovery housing, and education for our neighbors in need.

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5
Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.

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6
Fondy Food Center Inc

He fondy food center connects greater milwaukee to local, fresh food- from farm to market to table - so that children learn better, adults live healthier, and communities celebrate cultural food traditions.

Food & Nutrition
7
Beach Food Pantry Inc

Beach food pantry distributes food and personal hygiene supplies to those in need in dare county, north carolina.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Glades Initiative Inc

The mission of The Glades Initiative is to improve the coordination and effectiveness of the health and human service delivery system in the Glades area of Palm Beach County.

Human Services
9
Feeding South Florida Inc

Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.

Food & Nutrition
10
Food Group Minnesota Inc the

Fighting hunger. nourishing our community.

Food & Nutrition
11
St Petersburg Saturday Morning Market Inc

Our mission is to educate & feed as many people in our community with healthy food by creating affordable, accessible, nutritious food that will help sustain the earth. we have worked to teach our community the value of sustainably grown…

Community Improvement
12
Feeding America

Our mission is to advance change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all in partnership with partner food banks, policymakers, supporters, and the communities we serve.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manatee Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lake Street Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDU SER: $190,000 · OtherPLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY EDU SERSTAGES THEATRE COMPANY INC: $45,000 · OtherSTAGES THEATRE COMPANY INCBISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE NATURE: $25,000 · OtherBISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE NATURE+5 more: $45,000 · Other+5 moreCommunity Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points: $175,000 · Housing & ShelterCommunity Coalition on Ho…REALIZE BRADENTON INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureREALIZE BRADENTON IN…BOOKER PROMISE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $25,000 · EducationOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $30,000 · Human ServicesLake Street Council: $15,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF GLOBAL MARKET INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$305,000Housing & Shelter$175,000Arts & Culture$140,000Education$55,000Human Services$30,000Community Improvement$30,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points: $175,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetREALIZE BRADENTON INC: $140,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetSTAGES THEATRE COMPANY INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBOOKER PROMISE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLake Street Council: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF GLOBAL MARKET INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD OF BRADENTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Community Foundat…Charles & Margery Bar…Manatee Community Fou…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Helming and Knies Family Fndn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Helming and Knies Family Fndn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Helming and Knies Family Fndn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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