New York · Nonprofit
HELP USA INC
HELP USA INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $532,000 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($165,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $723k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $532k
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What Help USA Inc does
Mission
Help usa is a national not-for-profit organization committed to assisting families and individuals who are homeless, at-risk of homelessness, formerly homeless or low-income to become and remain stably housed and self-reliant. Since its founding in 1986 as a provider of transitional housing to homeless families in new york city, help usa has grown to become a builder and operator of service-enriched transitional and low-income permanent housing in five states. Help usa operates 3,634 housing units at 42 residential sites across the country, comprising 1,151 units of permanent affordable including 604 supportive housing, and close to 3,000 units of transitional housing for homeless families with children and single adults. Help usa's housing models include transitional housing for homeless adults, families, victims of domestic violence, and veterans; and permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless, low-income, and special-needs adults and families, including veterans. Help usa is also a provider of social services targeted to residents in its housing programs as well as members of the communities we serve. Help usa's programs currently serve more than 30,000 homeless and…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Help opened two new shelters in 2025, a purposed built 169-unit family shelter and a 135-bed shelter for single adult women. Help has secured grant funding to provide a variety of enhanced services to include harm reduction services, client recreational programs and digitizing intake and assessment at our homeless prevention programs in the bronx.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Help ended operations at a small family shelter in queens, ny in 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
In 2025, help usa operated close to 3,000 units of transitional housing and served approximately close to 17,000 homeless people in family and individual transitional housing programs. These programs offered safe, service-rich residential environments and worked with the residents to achieve employment and permanent housing.during 2025, help development corp. Operated 1,712 units of permanent affordable housing at 25 residences across the united states. In addition, it has 4 projects with an additional 456 units under development. In these programs, help usa housed families and individuals who were formerly homeless, at risk of homelessness, and living with disabilities such as serious mental illness. They provide robust clinical and recreational services for tenants. In 2025, help usa provided non-residential social and supportive services to over 18,000 individuals and members of families who were homeless, at risk of homelessness, or low income. These services included homelessness prevention, rapid re-housing, case management services, and employment services. Help also provides domestic violence services to hundreds of families at risk of, or experiencing, domestic violence.
$500,834 spentof which $500,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $500,834.
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 2024 to 2025, from $23M to $14M (−38%).
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.
69% of HELP USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Daniel Lehman
President/CEO
Board chair
Anthony Williams Esq
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $75k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Help USA Inc and Affiliates). These are real filings, and they are not money HELP USA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HELP USA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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 USA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 73%; 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 HELP USA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 48% · 2021 70% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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
60% of HELP USA 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 $215k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $317k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 USA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HELP USA 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 54 related entities
- Help New Jersey Development Co LLC · disregarded
- Creston Tenant LLC · disregarded
- Help Houses Development Corp · exempt
- The Help USA Fund Inc · exempt
- Mentoring USA Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELP USA 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds HELP USA INC?
- HELP USA INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $532,000 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($165,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HELP USA INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $532,000 in grants to HELP USA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELP USA INC?
- LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELP USA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 8 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