Vermont · Private foundation
The Help for People Foundation
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.
- $275k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 37
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Help for People Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $275k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $425k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $390k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $283k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $330k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $226k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $169k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willing Hands Enterprises Inc | $246,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Upper Valley Haven | $180,900 | 6 | 1% |
| Lightworks Collective Inc | $96,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Northern Stage Company | $70,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Norwich Community Collaborative Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 11% |
| The Family Place Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc | $54,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Upper Valley Humane Society Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Special Needs Support Center of the Upper Valley | $45,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Valley Insight Meditation Society | $42,000 | 5 | 36% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($638k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Help for People Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Couch Family Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Flora R and Isidor M Stettenheim Foundation Inc · Frank and Brinna Sands Foundation · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Barrette Family Fund · The Greenspan Foundation 5223318 · The Stannard & Dorothy Dunn Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About The Help for People Foundation
- How much does The Help for People Foundation give?
- The Help for People Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $275,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Help for People Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Help for People Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Willing Hands Enterprises Inc ($246k), Upper Valley Haven ($181k), Lightworks Collective Inc ($97k).
- Does The Help for People Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Help for People Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Help for People Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Couch Family Foundation, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, The Vermont Community Foundation.
- Where is The Help for People Foundation based?
- The Help for People Foundation is based in VT.
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