Utah · Nonprofit
HELPER PROJECT
HELPER PROJECT (Utah) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $268,300 to it, the largest being JEFFREY S & HELEN H CARDON FOUNDATION ($81,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $268k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Helper Project does
Mission
The Helper Project's mission is to foster, revitalize, promote beautification and cultural enhancement for the city of helper, utah.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We are working on a variety of projects all aimed to create a vibrant and beautiful city respectful of our heritage, with community direction, to attract tourists, increase economic activity, and bolster local pride.
$36,934 spentof which $10,000 as grants32% of program spendingIn effort to promote the importance of higher education and/or technical skills training beyond high school, the project provide funding for an ongoing scholarhip programs for youth from carbon county who are bettering themselves through post highschool education or training.
$77,000 spentof which $77,000 as grants68% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $113,934.
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 2023 to 2024, from $169k to $84k (−51%).
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 HELPER PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Shalee Johansen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $11k → $64k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 HELPER PROJECT’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
HELPER PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 61% · 2020 30% · 2021 49% · 2022 39% · 2023 39% — 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
50% of HELPER PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
99% of HELPER PROJECT's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HELPER PROJECT has grown faster than half of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HELPER PROJECT
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELPER PROJECT: 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 HELPER PROJECT?
- HELPER PROJECT (Utah) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $268,300 to it, the largest being JEFFREY S & HELEN H CARDON FOUNDATION ($81,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELPER PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $268,300 in grants to HELPER PROJECT, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPER PROJECT?
- JEFFREY S & HELEN H CARDON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $81,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPER PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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