Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC
HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,631 to it, the largest being GRACE C B STEBBINS TUA ($106,815). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $302k
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Helix Human Services Inc does
Mission
Helix human services is dedicated to partnering with families by providing innovative and educational programs and services that strengthen children and families; empowering them to succeed at home, within the community, and throughout life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Helix human services, inc. Operates three intensive residential programs serving boys and girls from ages 6 to 18. With three programs in springfield, we serve children throughout the commonwealth and provide structured settings with strong staff supervision and carefully designed clinical, life skill, transitional support and recreation services. Each child has an individually designed service plan with specific goals and objectives focused on preparing that child for a successful transition back home, to a permanent foster home or to independent living. Progress is closely monitored and behavioral plans adjusted as a child progresses through the program, and individual and family therapy is utilized as indicated.
$2,904,938 spent$3,131,133 earned by the program31% of program spendingOur mill pond campuses are dese approved special education schools serving students from grades k to 12. We provide strong academic education in a structured behavioral environment, children in our schools follow individually designed behavioral plans that help them improve academic performance as well as socialization. Both group and individual instruction are utilized to enhance academic performance within a state approved mcas curriculum. Electives include physical education, vocational training in an active shop, technology and computers and art.
$3,572,458 spent$4,149,148 earned by the program38% of program spendingThese growing programs reflect our commitment to "building healthy families". We believe that family is the center of a child's life experience, and that whenever possible, preservation of the family unit should be supported. This array of parent education, family support, stabilization, and visitation services help families address problems that are destabilizing to the family and/or putting a child at risk for out of home placement. Our effective, intensive interventions are designed to keep children safe and strengthen family units. Foster care services are also provided to ensure that children in need of out of home placements have access to families who can develop close relationships and provide a strong substitute environment. Our consistent success in keeping families intact and the community is reflected in the most important way, by families who don't become statistics.
$2,884,129 spent$3,714,517 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,361,525.
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 2019 to 2020, from $7.6M to $9.3M (+22%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 13% · 2022 6% · 2023 11% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Mark Paglia
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $16k → $47k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 HELIX HUMAN SERVICES 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
HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 49% · 2019 62% · 2020 45% · 2021 42% · 2022 38% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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
HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.5M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$13.5M
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$472
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$40
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 HELIX HUMAN SERVICES 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC?
- HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,631 to it, the largest being GRACE C B STEBBINS TUA ($106,815). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $301,631 in grants to HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC?
- GRACE C B STEBBINS TUA is the largest funder on record, with $106,815 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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