Alabama · Nonprofit
Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc
Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,396,158 to it, the largest being PETE M HANNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($700,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $22k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc does
Mission
Eye injury is the primary clinical research emphasis of the Foundation. The Foundation's mission and its primary education component is to perpetuate and advance the legacy of Helen Keller.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
An integral part of the Foundation's mission and primary education component is to perpetuate and advance the legacy of Helen Keller. The Character Education Program provides a unique opportunity to influence the moral development of students by focusing on the character and achievements of Helen Keller.
$161,098 spentof which $1,500 as grants37% of program spendingThe Foundation believes that vision research will advance in direct proportion to the public's awareness of research efforts to end blindness. The Helen Keller Prize is a powerful symbol for vision researchers worldwide who labor to preserve the precious gift of sight. Helen Keller Laureates are selected by an international panel of vision researchers. The Prize is awarded at the annual convention of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), an international conclave that attracts more than 13,000 scientists and physicians. The Prize stipend supports the recipient's vision research. The Foundation considers this program to be one of its most important efforts to end blindness.
$139,941 spentof which $37,500 as grants32% of program spendingThe Foundation targets three vision research areas: the child's eye, the injured eye, and the aging eye. The Foundation also awards grants to various medical universities in an effort to advance clinical research.
$132,982 spentof which $2,000 as grants31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $434,021.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $40k to $1.5M (+3753%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2021 17% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $180k → $258k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Helen Keller Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 64% · 2019 93% · 2020 92% · 2021 77% · 2022 91% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Helen Keller Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc?
- Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,396,158 to it, the largest being PETE M HANNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($700,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,396,158 in grants to Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc?
- PETE M HANNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Helen Keller Foundation for Research & E Research & Education Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing