· Private foundation
Bess J Hodges Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k73 grants · $231k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY | $23,095 |
| ST ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL FDN | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,547 |
| MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FDN | $10,000 |
| LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR BETTER VISION | $10,000 |
| CARPENTER PERFORMING ARTS CTR | $5,000 |
| MUSICAL THEATRE WEST | $5,000 |
| AUGIE'S QUEST TO CURE ALS | $5,000 |
| PATHWAYS VOLUNTEER HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| FOOD FINDERS | $5,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LB | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LONG BEACH AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC | $5,000 |
| RANCHO LOS CERRITOS FDN | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
113 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ORORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $188k · revenue +58%
- PVPATHWAYS VOLUNTEER HOSPICE9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +62%
- LBLONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- HYHelpline Youth Counseling Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +201%
- LBLONG BEACH CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $5k
- LBLong Beach Neighborhood Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +83%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Advocacy for a strong library system in Long Beach
The Chamber is the platform for business to provide leadership, education and advocacy so that the Long Beach area thrives in the 21st century.
Expand opportunities available to underresourced individuals in the city of long beach
Family promise of the south bay assists families experiencing housing insecurity with short-term shelter, case management, and navigation with the goal of creating a sustainable solution for their family.
To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.
To provide high quality and affordable child care, nutrition and other social services to low-income families.
We believe in the power of nonprofits to impact and transform communities. To strengthen the sector and the communities it serves, The Nonprofit Partnership engages in learning, collaboration, resource sharing, and advocacy.
Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.
The organization is committed to helping people today build their tomorrow, through essential services, youth development, local partnerships, and advocacy.
The Laguna Beach Community Foundation strengthens our community by encouraging philanthropy. We provide expertise and resources to assist local charities, connect donor passions with nonprofit needs, and work with local professional…
To inform and educate the public by providing timely, accurate and interesting news that inspires readers to think, act and connect with the world around them.
The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Beach Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Gold Star Manor. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 154 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS VOLUNTEER HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds Long Beach Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL THEATRE WEST ↗
- Who funds Long Beach Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Christian Outreach Appeal dba Christian Outreach in Action ↗
- Who funds OPERATION JUMP START ↗
- Who funds Leadership Long Beach ↗
- Who funds ABILITYFIRST ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dramatic Results ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Shared Science ↗
- Who funds RANCHO LOS CERRITOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today ↗
- Who funds WOMENSHELTER OF LONG BEACH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bess J Hodges Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oral Roberts University — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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