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.

The Helping Hand Foundation

The Helping Hand Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$108k

Largest

01What it funds

0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MRecreation & Sports$506kHealth$372kArts & Culture$233kPhilanthropy$127kReligion$28kYouth Development$25kHuman Services$22kOther$0

02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k25 grants · $48k
$10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$50k–250k3 grants · $233k

$1,043

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL	$108,333
CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION	$75,000
RANDALL'S ISLAND PARK ALLIANCE	$50,000
ONS FOUNDATION	$15,000
STAMFORD HOSPITAL	$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$7,744
TEMPLE SHOLOM	$7,574
TULANE UNIVERSITY	$5,200
WATERSIDE SCHOOL	$5,164
Individual grant recipient	$4,150
GREENWICH UNITED WAY	$3,626
YWCA GREENWICH	$2,591
JAFCO	$1,800
Individual grant recipient	$1,550
HORIZONS NATIONAL	$1,043

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 38 repeat orgs$577k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$576k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+23%

Still filing today

53%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & 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

GC
GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $853k · revenue +152%
RI
RANDALL'S ISLAND PARK ALLIANCE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +2%
TS
The Stamford Hospital
8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +71%

Funded once

GC
GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCH
one grant, 2017 · $232k
GC
GREENWICH COUNTY DAY SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $225k
SA
STEVEN A COHEN FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $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.

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health

Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Nuvance Health Medical Practice Ct Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc; the most unlike its peers is Amazin' Mets Foundation Inc. 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

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 97 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/48

Grantees still filing

35/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,287,471Education$911,553Health$352,321Philanthropy$15,559Human Services$14,670Youth Development$8,569Food & Nutrition$3,000

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY13.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Helping Hand Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Helping Hand Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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