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Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Diminishing reputation - Anonymous employee Helmsley Charitable Trust Employee Review

1.0
26 Sept 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This organization provides good benefits for you and your dependants, including fully subsidized health coverage, generous retirement contributions, and extra time off in the form of Summer Fridays (out at 1 PM) and break between Christmas and New Years. Staff members are collegial and most care a lot about making or facilitating impactful grants.

Cons

There is little room for professional growth, so negotiate the best title and salary you can at the outset. Company-wide policies concerning promotion are not applied fairly across departments, which leaves employees wishing for more transparency and feeling unappreciated. Department heads/management overall lacking experience in developing their team members and exacerbate low morale. There has been a wave of staff transitions, both voluntary and involuntary, since a new CEO started. The CEO and trustees do not share the culture and values of the company's most passionate and driven employees, who tend to be intellectually curious, politically progressive and equity-minded.

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18 Aug 2025
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Pros

Good people if you get a good team

Cons

Not much room for growth

3.0
3 Sept 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Relaxed environment, most of the employees are very nice and easy to get along with. The good culture is a result of the employees banding together not a result of management. Very generous benefits, summer Friday's, good time off. Your job is to give money away, and that is pretty great.

Cons

Office is nice but not open and conducive to cross department run in and communications. Also, too corporate/law office looking it does not match the staff or the mission. There is very little room to grow. Program staff is treated a lot better than support staff. HR department is pretty bad. Can't trust HR, don't feel like concerns (not serious) are taken seriously or thought out. Under go reviews but unable to get a performance based increase. You can work as hard as you want to or bare minimum and you are treated the same.

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