California · Private foundation
Bess J Hodges Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $307k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 79
- Grants FY2025
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $23,095
- Organizations funded a year
- 61 to 74
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Bess J Hodges Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 78 | $302k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 68 | $264k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $279k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 72 | $288k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 64 | $252k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $262k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 74 | $267k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $254k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oral Roberts University | $188,380 | 9 | 0% |
| Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pathways Volunteer Hospice | $44,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Long Beach Education Foundation | $43,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Long Beach Public Library Foundation | $41,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Musical Theatre West | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Long Beach Symphony Association | $39,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Food Finders Inc | $34,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc | $34,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Pathways to Independence | $34,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($926k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bess J Hodges Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Keesal Young & Logan Charitable Foundation · Martin & Clarisse Clancy Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · The Crail-Johnson Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bess J Hodges Foundation
- How much does Bess J Hodges Foundation give?
- Bess J Hodges Foundation reported 79 grants totaling $307,242 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 74 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bess J Hodges Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Arts & Culture (14%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Bess J Hodges Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oral Roberts University ($188k), Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation ($45k), Pathways Volunteer Hospice ($44k).
- Does Bess J Hodges Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bess J Hodges Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bess J Hodges Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation, Long Beach Community Foundation, The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation.
- Where is Bess J Hodges Foundation based?
- Bess J Hodges Foundation is based in CA.
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