Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HELPIS Inc
HELPIS Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,684 to it, the largest being BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $34k
What HELPIS Inc does
Mission
The mission of HELPIS, Inc. is: 1) To encourage and promote good and charitable deeds by groups and individuals for the purpose of helping someone needing help, and2) To create the first observation of HelpMeHelpSomeone celebration, a spirit of sharing during May giving help and saluting those who promote generosity and kindness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We established an account for The Month of May Scholarship fund. Scholarships for continuing education will be awarded to young adults who have been in Foster Care or homeless shelters and who are sponsored and referred to us through organizations such as Boys and Girls Clubs. In addition to the scholarships, we are working with numerous homeless shelters in the Boston area to provide a range of items needed by the families and individual being served by these organizations.We provide food, clothing , school supplies, and other items as requested by our partners.Boston Medical Center for the Homeless is one of the organizations we are helping.We are working with Foster Care organizations and agencies to provide help to the children served.Last we were created Welcome Bags for children going into Foster Care and delivered several hundred.
$183,694 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $183,694.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11k to $26k (+130%).
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 HELPIS Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $48 → $5k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 HELPIS 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
HELPIS Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 HELPIS Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 94% · 2023 93% — 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
97% of HELPIS 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 $1k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
HELPIS Inc has grown faster than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HELPIS 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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 HELPIS 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 HELPIS Inc?
- HELPIS Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,684 to it, the largest being BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HELPIS Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $46,684 in grants to HELPIS Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPIS Inc?
- BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPIS Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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