Kentucky · Nonprofit
HELP US GROW FOUNDATION INC
HELP US GROW FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,116,665 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($528,000). 8 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 FY2025
- $489k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $164k
What Help US Grow Foundation Inc does
Mission
Help us grow foundation was established for the purpose of assisting in the education of students in the second and third grades in the jefferson county (kentucky) public schools who are struggling with reading and in danger of failing their third grade proficiency tests.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through its h.u.g. Reading program, the organization recruits and trains volunteers to work with students on basic reading proficiency by utilizing a specific curriculum, and workbooks are provided to each student. Students are selected for the program by the recipient schools based on four specific criteria, and volunteers work with the students one-on-one for 60 minutes each week at the school.
$403,577 spent91% of program spendingN/a
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Help us grow foundation was established for the purpose of assisting in the education of students in the second and third grades in the jefferson county (kentucky) public schools who are struggling with reading and in danger of failing their third grade proficiency tests. The organization is expanding to four additional states as it seeks to increase its impact on national literacy rates.
$38,519 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $442,096.
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 2023 to 2024, from $241k to $168k (−30%).
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 HELP US GROW FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Samuel Corbett
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $30k → $286k.
9 of 15 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 HELP US GROW FOUNDATION 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
HELP US GROW FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 US GROW FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 80% · 2021 39% · 2022 38% · 2023 42% — 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
60% of HELP US GROW FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
84% of HELP US GROW FOUNDATION INC'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 $176k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $940k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HELP US GROW FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HELP US GROW FOUNDATION 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% 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 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HELP US GROW FOUNDATION INC?
- HELP US GROW FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,116,665 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($528,000). 8 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 HELP US GROW FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,116,665 in grants to HELP US GROW FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELP US GROW FOUNDATION INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $528,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELP US GROW FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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