FundersPennsylvania

Anna Marie Helbing Tr for Nursing Education

Jim Thorpe, PA · EIN 23-7681690. Reported 54 grants totalling $52,527 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$775median grant
$52,527granted, 2021-2024
29organizations funded
58%of grantees funded again the next year
$316,748assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Anna Marie Helbing Tr for Nursing Education did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $775. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,200; the smallest was $200 and the largest $3,550. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
34 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
20 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Lehigh Carbon Community College C/O Mauch Chunk Trust CoJim Thorpe, PA$9,900442024
Moravian CollegeBethlehem, PA$6,300442024
Desales University C/O Mauch Chunk Trust CoJim Thorpe, PA$5,400442024
St Lukes School of Nursing C/O Mauch Chunk Trust CoJim Thorpe, PA$4,100332024
Cedar Crest CollegeAllentown, PA$4,000332023
Immaculata UniversityImmaculata Dr, PA$2,400332023
Alvernia CollegeReading, PA$2,000222024
Chamberlain UniversityAddison, IL$2,000112024
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$2,000112024
Villanova UniversityVillanova, PA$1,800442024
Wilkes University C/O Mauch Chunk Trust CoJim Thorpe, PA$1,600332023
Pennsylvania College of TechnologyWilliamsport, PA$1,400222022
Bloomsburg University C/O Mauch Chunk Trust CoJim Thorpe, PA$1,100222023
Messiah UniversityMechanicsburg, PA$1,100222024
Falcon Institute of Health and ScienceBethlehem, PA$800112021
Carlow UniversityPittsburgh, PA$700112022
Lincoln Technical InstitutePhiladelphia, PA$700112022
The Times NewsNew York, NY$677222024
Penn State C/O Mauch Chunk Trust CoJim Thorpe, PA$650112021
Belmont UniversityNashville, TN$600112022
Georgian Court UniversityLakewood, NJ$600112024
East Stroudsburg University of PaEast Stroudsburg, PA$500112023
Kings CollegeWilkesbarre, PA$500112021
York College of PennsylvaniaYork, PA$500112022
Albright CollegeReading, PA$300112021
Misericordia UniversityDallas, PA$300112021
Dr Clement C McginleyJim Thorpe, PA$200112021
Jean StemlerJim Thorpe, PA$200112021
Toni Gibson Honorarium 2014Jim Thorpe, PA$200112021

13 of 29 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 58%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
21 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202117$14,129$500
202214$13,550$775
202312$11,000$900
202411$13,848$1,200

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 93% of this one's giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Pennsylvania
$49K
Illinois
$2K
New York
$677
New Jersey
$600
Tennessee
$600

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $775. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Anna Marie Helbing Tr for Nursing Education's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 289, Jim Thorpe, PA, 18229. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 23-7681690 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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