New York · Nonprofit
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL (New York) receives grants from 307 organizations whose IRS filings report $415,977,077 to it, the largest being FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC ($104,315,837). 174 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $120M
- Funders on record
- 307
- Grants received
- $416M
- Net assets
- $124M
What Helen Keller International does
Mission
Guided by her remarkable legacy of its co-founder, helen keller, helen keller intl partners with communities that are striving to overcome longstanding cycles of poverty. By delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound nutrition, and clear vision, we help millions of people create lasting change in their own lives. Working in 20 countries with nearly 1,000 staff across africa, asia, europe, and the united states, and together with a global community of supporters, we help ensure every person has the opportunity as helen did to reach their true potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Eyehealth: currently 1 in 7 people worldwide are blind or living with some form of vision loss, yet a staggering 90% of vision loss is preventable or treatable. Vision loss can have an incredible impact on people's quality of life, impacting children and family members' ability to learn, form friendships, earn a living, and to remain safe. It can even set them on a course for generations of poverty. To protect vision, helen keller intl partners with communities and local health networks to improve their ability to provide high-quality eye health services to children and adults who don't have access to adequate, affordable care. In africa and asia, we train, equip, and provide ongoing support to clinicians helping them treat people with cataract, refractive error, and diabetic retinopathy. In the united states, we partner with schools and community-based organizations to provide vision screenings, eye exams, and prescription glasses for vulnerable children and adults. Last year we supported visions screenings for more than 136,000 students and adults globally, of which 119,600 resided in the united states, and provided free eyeglasses to over 31,600 (or 78%) of those diagnosed with…
$4,328,459 spent$2,164,377 earned by the program5% of program spendingNutrition: today as many as 318 million face acute levels of food insecurity. Ongoing stressors including climate change, rising inflation, and instability and conflicts around the world have made nutritious food unaffordable or inaccessible to millions of children and families at greatest risk. To reduce malnutrition, helen keller intl partners with governments, communities, community health workers, and community organizations in africa and asia to reach infants, children, mothers, and families with climate-smart farming training, breastfeeding support, assessment and treatment of malnutrition, complementary high-nutrient foods, and critical vitamins and nutrients like immune-building vitamin a.last year, helen keller partnered with 14 african governments to reach over 47 million children under the age of five with two doses of vitamin a supplementation. We also continued our support to governments and private sector companies in large scale food fortification in several countries across africa (burkina faso, nigeria, and senegal) to explore fortification of bouillon cubes. We estimate having reached more than 2.2 million families with better access to micronutrient-rich foods…
$76,889,685 spentof which $16,846,918 as grants82% of program spendingNeglected tropical diseases: neglected tropical diseases including blinding trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, river blindness, schistosomiasis, and intestinal worms impact more than 1 billion people globally. These mainly parasitic, viral, or bacterial diseases that can cause a host of painful physical disabilities, lost economic opportunities, and social stigma are most prevalent in lower income countries that lack adequate healthcare. Helen keller intl partners with ministries of health, local leaders, and communities to prevent, treat, and eliminate these neglected diseases. A cornerstone of the work involves mass drug administration events where community health workers distribute critical medications to both treat and curb the spread of these diseases. During 2025 alone, we worked with ministries of health to treat more than 32.3 million individuals for at least one of these five diseases in seven african countries (burkina faso, cameroon, guinea, mali, niger, nigeria and sierra leone), contributing greatly to national efforts towards their control and elimination. Helen keller is also involved in morbidity management and disability prevention related specifically to trachoma…
$13,112,320 spentof which $3,686,783 as grants14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $94,330,464.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $112M to $166M (+48%).
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: 2018 67% · 2019 50% · 2020 47% · 2021 48% · 2022 37% · 2023 25% · 2024 37% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Sarah Bouchie
President & CEO - current
Board chair
William Toppeta
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 53 funders to 120 funders, grant income rose $16M → $109M.
43 of 307 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 307 funders by total. 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 INTERNATIONAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
73% 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 INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 29% · 2019 22% · 2020 27% · 2021 32% · 2022 35% · 2023 62% — 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
46% of HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 34 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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 INTERNATIONAL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 59 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 59 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $146.5M on record.
- Agency for International Development$146.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Hki Support Inc · exempt
- Hki - Kenya · exempt
- Hki - Tanzania · exempt
- Hki - Nigeria · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: 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 INTERNATIONAL?
- HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL (New York) receives grants from 307 organizations whose IRS filings report $415,977,077 to it, the largest being FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC ($104,315,837). 174 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 307 organizations giving $415,977,077 in grants to HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL, 174 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL?
- FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $104,315,837 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 307 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing