· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPPER VALLEY HAVEN | $40,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE HOLYOKE | $40,000 |
| ST JUDES RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $40,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NORRIS COTTON CANCER | $20,000 |
| VERMONT PUBLIC | $20,000 |
| WILLING HANDS | $20,000 |
| SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER | $10,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE | $10,000 |
| THE FAMILY PLACE | $10,000 |
| HARTFORD DISMAS HOUSE | $10,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO | $10,000 |
| HONDURAS TOLUPAN ED FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY | $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 (FY17–25, $406k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
49 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WHWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $246k · revenue +48%
- UVUPPER VALLEY HAVEN6× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +107%
- LCLIGHTWORKS COLLECTIVE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $97k · revenue +232%
Funded once
- TFTHE FOCUS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- THTHE HAVEN UPPER VALLEY HAVENone grant, 2021 · $25k
- THTHE HAVENone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
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How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 92 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 WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds LIGHTWORKS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Norwich Community Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds Community Gallery Inc ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SPARK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE (WISE) OF THE UPPER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOCUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PUBLIC CO ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Help for People Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Help for People Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Institute for Sustainable Communities: 100% of income from government
- The Family Place Inc: 38% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven: 38% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Salvation Farms Inc: 26% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc: 17% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports: 11% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc: 5% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company: 5% of income from government
- Montshire Museum of Science Inc: 4% of income from government
- Upper Valley Trails Alliance: 3% of income from government
- Norwich Community Collaborative Inc: 1% of income from government
- Vermont Public Co: 0% of income from government
- Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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