Connecticut · Private foundation
The Helping Hand 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.
- $306k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,043
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $108,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations The Helping Hand Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 30 | $306k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $201k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $307k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $149k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $354k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $377k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $467k | 48% |
| FY2017 | 27 | $426k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwich Country Day School Inc | $852,819 | 7 | 0% |
| Randall's Island Park Alliance Inc | $500,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Stamford Hospital | $100,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Christopher Reeve Foundation | $90,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Greenwich Hospital | $85,000 | 6 | 0% |
| City Year Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Vincent's Medical Center | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of Greenwich Inc | $34,442 | 8 | 0% |
| Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Temple Sholom Inc | $15,324 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($646k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Helping Hand Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
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About The Helping Hand Foundation
- How much does The Helping Hand Foundation give?
- The Helping Hand Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $305,846 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Helping Hand Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (46%), Recreation & Sports (19%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Helping Hand Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Greenwich Country Day School Inc ($853k), Randall's Island Park Alliance Inc ($500k), The Stamford Hospital ($100k).
- Does The Helping Hand Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Helping Hand 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 Helping Hand Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Helping Hand Foundation based?
- The Helping Hand Foundation is based in CT.
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