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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.

$11M
Revenue FY2025
16
Funders on record
$302k
Grants received
$5.1M
Net assets
7/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

HELIX HUMAN SERVICES INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−2% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($9.8M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($5.1M)2019 Revenue 112 ($11M) Expenses 96 ($10M) Net assets 120 ($6.1M)2020 Revenue 110 ($11M) Expenses 97 ($10M) Net assets 128 ($6.5M)2021 Revenue 113 ($11M) Expenses 96 ($10M) Net assets 158 ($8.0M)2022 Revenue 95 ($9.3M) Expenses 95 ($10M) Net assets 123 ($6.2M)2023 Revenue 96 ($9.5M) Expenses 97 ($10M) Net assets 107 ($5.4M)2024 Revenue 102 ($10M) Expenses 96 ($10M) Net assets 103 ($5.2M)2025 Revenue 115 ($11M) Expenses 106 ($11M) Net assets 101 ($5.1M)
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Revenue (115)Expenses (106)Net assets (101)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,397 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$979k
17
$550k
19
$326k
20
$722k
21
$883k
22
$984k
23
$407k
24
$171k
25
0.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

35%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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.

VT
MA
TN
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

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.

State$13.5M
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Top programs
  • (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

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 17%Fundraising 2%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELIX HUMAN SERVICES 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

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.

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 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing