How much did BESS J HODGES FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of BESS J HODGES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

league long

2019

medicaleducation

2020

—

2021

international

2022

lovecentury

2023

century

2024

century

2025

outreachcentury

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k73 grants · $231k
$10k–50k6 grants · $77k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY$23,095
ST ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL FDN$12,000
TRINITY BROADCASTING$11,547
PARTNERS FOR BETTER VISION$10,000
MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FDN$10,000
LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION$10,000
RANCHO LOS CERRITOS FDN$5,000
PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE$5,000
RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FDN$5,000
MEAL ON WHEELS OF LONG BEACH$5,000
LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE FDN$5,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LB$5,000
LONG BEACH AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC$5,000
CARPENTER PERFORMING ARTS CTR$5,000
LONG BEACH GIVES$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.3M · 116 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

116 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116

Total granted

$2.3M

$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

Still filing today

42%

21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

OR
ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $188k · revenue +45%
RL
RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FDN
9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +8%
PV
PATHWAYS VOLUNTEER HOSPICE
9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +3%

Funded once

HY
Helpline Youth Counseling Incgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +107%
LB
LONG BEACHCOMMUNITY FDN
one grant, 2020 · $5k
LB
LONG BEACH CANCER SOCIETY
one grant, 2023 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation

The purpose of the Foundation is to promote understanding and appreciation of the arts, to collect and exhibit significant works of art, & to manage and support an institution where these works of art may be housed and displayed for the…

Arts & Culture

Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber is the platform for business to provide leadership, education and advocacy so that the Long Beach area thrives in the 21st century.

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Friends of the Long Beach Public Library

Advocacy for a strong library system in Long Beach.

—

Youths Working for Change

Expand opportunities available to underresourced individuals in the city of long beach

Youth Development

Laguna Beach Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy

Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership Inc

We believe in the power of nonprofits to impact and transform communities. To strengthen the sector and the communities it serves, The Nonprofit Partnership (TNP) engages in learning, collaboration, resource sharing, and advocacy.

Community Improvement

Long Beach Community Players Inc

To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and alike in theatre productions

Arts & Culture

Assistance League of Long Beach

Assistance League of Long Beach is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation whose mission is to empower and transform the lives of children and adults through impactful programs.

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Long Beach Community Action Partnership

The organization is committed to helping people today build their tomorrow, through essential services, youth development, local partnerships, and advocacy.

Human Services

Long Beach Community Improvement League

To provide high quality and affordable child care, nutrition and other social services to low-income families.

—

Long Beach Accelerator Inc

Long beach accelerator was formed for the purpose of performing all things incidental to, or appropriate in, the achievement of the following specific and primary mission to accelerate early state startups with seed funding, mentorship,…

Community Improvement

Laguna Beach Community Clinic

To provide primary medical and other service programs to individuals and families.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Beach Forward Inc 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/65

the rest of the field

13%

6,641/49,751

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.

05the grantee network

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/63

Grantees still filing

47/63

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,575,430Education$343,830Arts & Culture$242,500Health$89,100Crime & Legal$75,500Human Services$75,500Food & Nutrition$55,500

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.

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.

Long Beach Community FoundationCA78.9× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Long Beach Community Foundation · Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer · The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Keesal Young & Logan Charitable · Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership Inc · The Ahmanson Foundation · Air Products Foundation · John W Hancock Foundation · Martin & Clarisse Clancy 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Long Beach Neighborhood Fdn.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +83% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 061827164 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Long Beach Neighborhood Fdn, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bess J Hodges Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bess J Hodges Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BESS J HODGES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bess J Hodges Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BESS J HODGES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bess J Hodges Foundation?

More from the funding graph