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HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE

HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE (Virginia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,074,640 to it, the largest being HELP & EMERGENCY RESPONSE FOUNDATION ($1,004,503). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.7M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
$3.1M
12/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Help and Emergency Response does

Mission

To provide shelter and to engage in dedicated efforts to eliminate domestic violence. The organization provides advocacy, support, and education to those who have been affected by domestic violence in the cities of chesapeake and portsmouth, virginia.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Crisis services- provide a 24-hour crisis hotline, crisis counseling, intensive case management, shelter, food and support to over 500 women and children every year. H.e.r. Focuses on the long term stabilization of each client and family through a focus on rapid rehousing and permanent solutions.

    $1,412,996 spentof which $268,669 as grants
    97% of program spending

  2. Childrens program - offers individual, age appropriate, trauma assessment and care plans. Each child is provided screening for developmental, educational, emotional and physical health to ensure long term care and success is achieved. H.e.r provides tutoring, support groups, field trips and creative opportunities to triumph over trauma.

    $36,401 spentof which $6,735 as grants
    3% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,449,397.

02The 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 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($443k)2018 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 111 ($1.5M) Net assets 130 ($577k)2019 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 121 ($1.6M) Net assets 130 ($578k)2020 Revenue 106 ($1.7M) Expenses 133 ($1.8M) Net assets 117 ($519k)2021 Revenue 119 ($1.9M) Expenses 134 ($1.8M) Net assets 147 ($651k)2022 Revenue 239 ($3.9M) Expenses 131 ($1.7M) Net assets 620 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 104 ($1.7M) Expenses 131 ($1.8M) Net assets 648 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 106 ($1.7M) Expenses 125 ($1.7M) Net assets 694 ($3.1M)2025 Revenue 108 ($1.7M) Expenses 133 ($1.8M) Net assets 698 ($3.1M)
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Revenue (108)Expenses (133)Net assets (698)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $687k to $2.8M (+314%).

$456k
$602k
$623k
$615k
$687k
$2.8M
$2.9M
$3.2M
$3.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 45% · 2018 52% · 2019 62% · 2020 51% · 2021 59% · 2022 32% · 2023 67% · 2024 65% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$278k
’17
$134k
’18
$1k
’19
−$60k
’20
$135k
’21
$2.1M
’22
−$84k
’23
$35k
’24
−$25k
’25
3.6
months of
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

Olivia Smithberger

Executive director

Board chair

David O'Donnell

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+6+4+2+0+7+1+0+3
No longer listed·35127104
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $30k → $115k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
Ms Molly Foundationunclassified
$21k
Mary Kay Ash Foundationunclassified
$20k
funders
2
4
5
5
7
8
4
7
2
1

8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE’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

HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41% 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 HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE.

48%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 40% · 2019 37% · 2020 61% · 2021 77% · 2022 84% · 2023 74% — 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

56% of HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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

97% of HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

NY
CA
MO
VA
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE

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 Virginia

Safe Harbor84%Shelter for Help in Emergency Inc84%Transitions Family Violence Services82%Bethany House of Northern Virginia Inc81%Project Horizon Inc81%The James House InterventionPrevention Services Inc80%Safehome Systems Inc80%People Incorporated of Virginia79%

Nationally

Safe Harbor84%Shelter for Help in Emergency Inc84%The Harbor Inc84%Violence Free Crisis Line83%Peace at Home Advocacy Center Inc83%Center for Hope and Safety Inc82%Freedom House82%Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault Crisis Center of Warren County Inc82%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 17%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

VA

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Her- Operations LLC · disregarded
  • Her- Investment Funds LLC · disregarded
  • Help and Emergency Response Real Estate LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE: 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 HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE?
HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE (Virginia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,074,640 to it, the largest being HELP & EMERGENCY RESPONSE FOUNDATION ($1,004,503). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,074,640 in grants to HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE?
HELP & EMERGENCY RESPONSE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,004,503 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HELP AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 20 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