· Private foundation
The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust
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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k144 grants · $21M
- $250k+361 grants · $418M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $6,966,024 |
| MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM FOR THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $6,753,638 |
| BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV | $5,785,714 |
| HADASSAH MEDICAL ORGANIZATION | $5,265,160 |
| STICHTING THE OCEAN CLEANUP | $5,000,000 |
| THE QUEENS MEDICAL CENTER | $5,000,000 |
| KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER - ICHILOV HOSPITAL | $4,879,510 |
| BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTRE | $4,505,896 |
| BLUE CIRCLE HEALTH INC | $4,470,844 |
| BLUE CIRCLE HEALTH INC | $4,470,843 |
| ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM | $4,214,824 |
| BLUE CIRCLE HEALTH INC | $3,975,887 |
| WILCOX HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,944,163 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 65% of grant dollars ($1.3B). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 35% that went abroad ($683M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $26.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 35% of all-years giving ($683M)
23 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
429 repeat relationships — 270 still active in FY2025, 159 since wound down; 86 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $33M · revenue +33%
- TEThe End Fund Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $32M · revenue +79% · 40% of their budget
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI5× · 2021–2025 · $19M · revenue +22%
Funded once
- CHCOMMONWEALTH HEALTHCARE CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $6.4M
- NGNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSIONone grant, 2022 · $5.6M
- NYNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2024 · $3.7M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Altru Health System and the most unlike its peers is Petals 4 Paws Llc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
398 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 398 of the 766 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
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- Who funds BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds T1D EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAEB CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Avera McKennan ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A GLIMMER OF HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fairview Health Services ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · North Dakota Hospital Foundation · Minnesota Hospital Association · Breakthrough T1d · Altman Foundation · American Cancer Society Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Iowa Hospital Association · College of St Scholastica Inc · Gates Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc — 60% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- National Association of School Nurses — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Center for Health Care Strategies Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Youth Development Organization Inc — 4% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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