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Helping Our People Excel Inc

Helping Our People Excel Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,032 to it, the largest being THE PETER AND CARMEN LUCIA BUCK FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$188k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$325k
Net assets
$56k
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Helping Our People Excel Inc does

Mission

Community Service-Outreach services

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide social service programming and community engagement

    $41,931 spentof which $41,931 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,931.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($188k) Expenses 100 ($46k) Net assets 100 ($142k)2021 Revenue 100 ($188k) Expenses 591 ($274k) Net assets 40 ($56k)
20202021
Revenue (100)Expenses (591)Net assets (40)

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 $142k to $56k (−60%).

$142k
$56k
20202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$142k
’20
−$86k
’21
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $69k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Our People Excel 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

Helping Our People Excel Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

52% 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 Helping Our People Excel Inc.

46%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 85% · 2023 44% — 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

20% of Helping Our People Excel Inc's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

Helping Our People Excel Inc draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 3 states in all.

NY
MA
CT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Helping Our People Excel 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 Connecticut

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

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 Helping Our People Excel 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 Helping Our People Excel Inc?
Helping Our People Excel Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,032 to it, the largest being THE PETER AND CARMEN LUCIA BUCK FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Helping Our People Excel Inc have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $325,032 in grants to Helping Our People Excel Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Helping Our People Excel Inc?
THE PETER AND CARMEN LUCIA BUCK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Helping Our People Excel Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2020–2021), 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