Maryland · Nonprofit
Helping Friends Foundation
Helping Friends Foundation (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $526 to it, the largest being Someone Elses Child Inc ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $267k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $526
- Net assets
- $804k
What Helping Friends Foundation does
Mission
To provide financial assistance to employees of hunt valley holdings, llc, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and such employees' immediate family members, (I) whose homes and possessions have been severely damaged or destroyed as a result of natural disasters, (ii) who have suffered severe financial hardship as the result of significant injury, illness, or death, and/or (iii) who have suffered severe financial hardship as a result of domestic violence affecting such employee or his or her immediate family.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Financial assistance to individuals whose homes and possessions were severely damaged or destroyed as a result of natural disasters; who suffered severe financial hardship as the result of significant injury, illness or death; or who suffered severe financial hardship as the result of domestic violence on such employee or his/her immediate family.
$237,541 spentof which $237,541 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $237,541.
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 2022 to 2023, from $968k to $872k (−10%).
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.
88% of Helping Friends Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $505 → $11.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Helping Friends Foundation’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
Helping Friends Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 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
Helping Friends Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 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
Helping Friends Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 Helping Friends Foundation
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Helping Friends Foundation: 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 Helping Friends Foundation?
- Helping Friends Foundation (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $526 to it, the largest being Someone Elses Child Inc ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Helping Friends Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $526 in grants to Helping Friends Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Helping Friends Foundation?
- Someone Elses Child Inc is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Helping Friends Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2020–2025), 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