Texas · Nonprofit
HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION
HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,309 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($43,561). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $163k
What Helms Hope Foundation does
Mission
Helms Hope Foundation will offer education and training programs to individuals in order to provide education on how to identify skin cancer at an early stage and measures to take to reduce the risk.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Helms hope continued expanding its make sun safety a snap initiative, providing free access to top-of-the-line sunscreen machines in high-traffic outdoor spaces. Theprogram promotes awareness and prevention of skin cancer by making sun protection easy, effective, and accessible. In 2024, helms hope funded and deployed four snap sunscreen machines that collectively provide free sunscreen to approximately 100,000 people each year.
$0 spentHelms hope led multiple public awareness efforts focused on earlydetection and prevention of skin cancer. Through social media campaigns, community events, and digital resources, the organization educated individuals about the importance of regular skin checks,recognizing warning signs, and practicing daily sun safety.
$0 spentHelms hope supplied goods for sun safety such as sunscreen, upf clothing, awareness literature, etc. These collaborations helped expand the organization's reach,strengthen community engagement, and further its mission to end the skin cancer epidemic.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $142k to $182k (+29%).
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.
100% of HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $57 → $9k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION’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
HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
84% of HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION's revenue fell 43% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION: 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 HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION?
- HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,309 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($43,561). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $91,309 in grants to HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $43,561 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELMS HOPE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 5 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