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The Peter S and Vicki a Helming Family Fdn Inc at a glance

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The Peter S and Vicki a Helming Family Fdn Inc

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.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$146kEnvironment$33kHealth$25kHousing & Shelter$14kHuman Services$10kArts & Culture$9kFood & Nutrition$8kYouth Development$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$577k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAS SENORAS INC$5,000
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
IDAHO FOOD BANK$5,000
LIFES KITCHEN$5,000
IDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$5,000
PARKER BOUNDS JOHNSON FOUNDATION$5,000
INTERFAITH SANCTUARY$5,000
IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION$5,000
BOISE URBAN GARDEN SCHOOL$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF IDAHO: $5k → 11%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$228k · 10 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +119% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$228k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+119%
+20%

Still filing today

80%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • LK
    LIFES KITCHEN INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $78k · revenue +129%
  • TP
    THE PEREGRINE FUND INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +8%
  • PB
    PARKER BOUNDS JOHNSON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • SN
    SECOND NATURE ALUMNI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • CC
    COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF IDAHO INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +20%
  • OD
    OREGON DOG RESCUE
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -3%
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.

1
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
2
Idaho Animal Rescue Network

Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…

Animals
3
Underdogs Boise
Arts & Culture
4
Idaho Wildlife Federation

The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.

Animals
5
Idaho Operation Lifesaver
—
6
Brave Hearts Idaho
Arts & Culture
7
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
8
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
9
Idaho Hispanic Foundation Inc
Human Services
10
Idaho Hunger Relief Task Force Inc

Our mission is to put private and public resources into action statewide to eliminate hunger and provide food security for all idahoans.

Human Services
11
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

—
12
Children's Home Society of Idaho Inc

Our mission is to improve the lives of children in our community.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Council of Idaho Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Peregrine Fund 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $50,000 · OtherIDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISIONTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $28,000 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INCBOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · OtherBOISE STATE UNIVERSITYSECOND NATURE ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherLAS SENORAS INC: $5,000 · OtherBoise Urban Garden School: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $7,000 · Other+5 moreLIFES KITCHEN INC: $78,000 · EducationLIFES KITCHEN INCTHE JULIE FOUDY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · EducationTHE JULIE FOUDY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION I…PARKER BOUNDS JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthPARKER BOUN…INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC: $14,000 · Housing & ShelterIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $8,000 · Food & NutritionIDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSUREL'S PLACE INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureBOISE ART MUSEUM INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY COUNCIL OF IDAHO INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $1,500 · Human Services
Other$106,000Education$90,000Health$25,000Housing & Shelter$14,000Food & Nutrition$8,000Arts & Culture$8,000Human Services$6,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIFES KITCHEN INC: $78,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARKER BOUNDS JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetINTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JULIE FOUDY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAS SENORAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetIDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNCIL OF IDAHO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoise Urban Garden School: $5,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetOREGON DOG RESCUE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUREL'S PLACE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOISE ART MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Harad Family Foundati…Idaho Community Found…The Julius C Jeker Fo…Lamb Weston Charitabl…Idaho Power Foundatio…Joy & Thomas Kealey F…Sylvan Creek Foundati…Four J FoundationLangan Barber Foundat…Percival Stern Founda…Idaho Womens Charitab…Claude R & Ethel B Wh…
Harad Family FoundationID20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harad Family Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Joy & Thomas Kealey Foundation · Sylvan Creek Foundation Inc · Four J Foundation · Langan Barber Foundation · Percival Stern Foundation · Idaho Womens Charitable Foundation · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation

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 Peter S and Vicki a Helming Family Fdn Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peter S and Vicki a Helming Family Fdn Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Peter S and Vicki a Helming Family Fdn Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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