New York · Nonprofit
THE HELP USA FUND INC
THE HELP USA FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,887,984 to it, the largest being JON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION ($250,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $0
What The Help USA Fund Inc does
Mission
The help usa fund, inc. Solicits and distributes funds to its affiliated entities to help support their transitional and permanent housing and social services for homeless families and individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Throughout fiscal year 2025, the help usa fund expanded philanthropic support from individuals, foundations, and corporate partners to fuel help usa's housing, prevention, and supportive services. Overall contributions more than doubled fy24 levels, propelled by growth in private and corporate foundation grants, stronger event net revenue and increased giving from board and individual donors. Strategic stewardship, renewed partnerships, and targeted campaigns expanded the pipeline and diversified revenue.signature events and campaigns strengthened both revenue and visibility:- 18th annual vva-help usa toy drive delivered a sold-out evening and extended partner support into june 2025;- art of resilience benefit (feb. 7, 2025) showcased resident artwork and announced an expansion into music therapy made possible by a michael bolton charities grant;- upstream 2025 (april 30, 2025) assembled more than 300 advocates, officials, and practitioners to confront the housing crisis and elevate actionable solutions;- help heroes night (june 12, 2025) convened 300+ supporters to launch the organization's 40th-anniversary celebration and honor civic, arts, and sector leaders.these efforts were…
$1,952,974 spentof which $957,580 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,952,974.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $6.5M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Daniel Lehman
President/CEO
Board chair
Richard Ostroff
Chair (until 02/04/2025)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $65k → $358k.
6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.8M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Help USA Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE HELP USA FUND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE HELP USA FUND 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
THE HELP USA FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 THE HELP USA FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 68% · 2019 83% · 2020 42% · 2021 83% · 2022 68% · 2023 59% — 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
21% of THE HELP USA FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
56% of THE HELP USA FUND INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $829k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like THE HELP USA FUND 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 51 related entities
- Help Houses Development Corporation · exempt
- Mentoring USA Inc · exempt
- Help Development Corp · exempt
- Briteway Inc · exempt
- Help USA Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HELP USA FUND INC?
- THE HELP USA FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,887,984 to it, the largest being JON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION ($250,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HELP USA FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,887,984 in grants to THE HELP USA FUND INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HELP USA FUND INC?
- JON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HELP USA FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 28 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