Ohio · Private foundation
William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $108k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $850k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $108k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $64k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $28k | 59% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $32k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $37k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $66k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $34k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $59k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoological Society of Cincinnati | $64,600 | 9 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts | $33,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Museum Association | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Art Academy of Cincinnati | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Northern Kentucky University Foundation Inc | $13,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Museum Center | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Public Radio Inc | $11,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Save the Animals Foundation | $11,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Taft Museum of Art | $8,100 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($204k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Thomas R Schiff Foundation · Earthward Bound Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Duke Energy Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Ohio Valley Foundation Fifth Third Bank
How this is measured
Compare William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation
- How much does William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation give?
- William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $108,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Animals (22%), Philanthropy (16%).
- Who are William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Zoological Society of Cincinnati ($65k), Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ($34k), Cincinnati Museum Association ($28k).
- Does William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust, Louise Taft Semple Foundation.
- Where is William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation based?
- William G & Jane Helms Charitable Foundation is based in OH.
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