Ohio · Nonprofit
HELPFUL
HELPFUL (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,029 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $375
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $40k
What Helpful does
Mission
Applicant is empowering and engaging people around the world in order to respond to this pandemic and the issues it has exposed by providing the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework to allow a network of volunteers to collaborate to solve these and other challenges. Applicant has built a network of volunteers who are collaborating via applicant's slack group. This network is concentrated in the united states but has members in countries throughout the world. Applicant is responding to the shortage of resources and equipment needed to keep people healthy during the pandemic by providing assistance to volunteers who are creating novel solutions to meet these needs, and by providing project management standards and oversight, and an open-source legal, contractual, and licensing framework, to ensure that the work of applicant's volunteer network translates into active supply chains providing desperately needed equipment to health care providers and patients.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Prototyping of medical equipment 1.) design of ppe, masks and face shields with design distribution numbering in the multi-millions and physical deliverables beyond counting. 2.) one open source product at market, before fda. 3.) multiple technologies tested by the usg (sandia labs and us army). 4.) development of a comprehensive suite of early stage medical hardware countermeasures relating to covid, with utility beyond the pandemic. These include multiple ventilators, software and human and logistic coordination software (reach4help). 5.) more than 100 projects begun. 6.) an unfunded Helpful/nist collaboration exploring medical supply chain functionings and resulting in the production of a concept solution.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $31k to $66k (+116%).
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 HELPFUL’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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13 → $16.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 HELPFUL’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
HELPFUL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 HELPFUL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of HELPFUL'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HELPFUL's revenue fell 99% between 2020 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,648 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like HELPFUL
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELPFUL: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HELPFUL?
- HELPFUL (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,029 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HELPFUL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,029 in grants to HELPFUL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPFUL?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPFUL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 2 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