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Bess J Hodges Foundation at a glance

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Bess J Hodges Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$307k
Granted FY2025still arriving
79
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$523kArts & Culture$349kHuman Services$334kHealth$244kYouth Development$153kFood & Nutrition$103kHousing & Shelter$83kCrime & Legal$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k73 grants · $231k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $77k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY$23,095
ST ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL FDN$12,000
Individual grant recipient$11,547
PARTNERS FOR BETTER VISION$10,000
MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FDN$10,000
LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION$10,000
ST JOSEPH SCHOOLCHURCH$5,000
LONG BEACH AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC$5,000
LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE FDN$5,000
PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE$5,000
PATHWAYS VOLUNTEER HOSPICE$5,000
RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FDN$5,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LB$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
MEAL ON WHEELS OF LONG BEACH$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Comprehensive Child Development Svc: $3k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE CHILD DEVELOPMENT SVC: $3k → 14%CHILDREN TODAY: $2k → 14%CHILDREN TODAY INC: $2k → 14%CHILDREN TODAY: $2k → 14%CHILD LANE: $2k → 14%CHILD LANE: $2k → 14%CHILDREN TODAY: $2k → 14%CHILDREN TODAY: $2k → 14%CHILDREN TODAY INC: $2k → 14%LIFE STEPS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LIFE STEPS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%LIFE STEPS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%LIFE STEPS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%INTERVAL HOUSE: $5k → 14%INTERVAL HOUSE: $4k → 14%INTERVAL HOUSE: $4k → 14%INTERVAL HOUSE: $4k → 14%INTERVAL HOUSE: $4k → 14%CALIFORNIA FAMILIES IN FOCUS: $3k → 14%CALIFORNIA FAMILIES IN FOCUS: $2k → 14%LOVE IN THE MIRROR: $1k → 14%ABLE ARTS WORK: $4k → 14%ABLE ARTS WORK: $3k → 14%ABLE ARTS WORK: $3k → 14%HIS LITTLE FEET: $4k → 14%HIS LITTLE FEET: $4k → 14%HIS LITTLE FEET: $3k → 14%ABLE ARTS WORK: $3k → 14%ABLE ARTS WORK: $3k → 14%Able Arts Work: $2k → 14%Able Arts Work: $2k → 14%ABLE ARTS WORK: $2k → 14%HIS LITTLE FEET: $2k → 14%HIS LITTLE FEET: $2k → 14%UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY: $2k → 14%HIS LITTLE FEET: $1k → 14%HIS LITTLE FEET: $1k → 14%UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY: $1k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $4k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $4k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $4k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $3k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $3k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $3k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $3k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $3k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 113 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113
32

Total granted

$2.3M
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

54%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +58%
  • PV
    PATHWAYS VOLUNTEER HOSPICE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +62%
  • LB
    LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • HY
    Helpline Youth Counseling Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +201%
  • LB
    LONG BEACH CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • LB
    Long Beach Neighborhood Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +83%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Friends of the Long Beach Public Library

Advocacy for a strong library system in Long Beach

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2
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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3
Youths Working for Change

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

Youth Development
4
Family Promise of Los Angeles

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.

Human Services
5
Long Beach Community Players Inc

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

Arts & Culture
6
Long Beach Community Improvement League

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

—
7
Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership Inc Dba the Nonprofit Partnership

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.

Community Improvement
8
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education
9
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
10
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
11
Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Laguna Beach Community Clinic

The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Beach Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/83
Grantees still filing
55/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $94,190 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL FDN: $94,000 · OtherST ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL FDN+103 more: $1,219,240 · Other+103 moreORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY: $188,380 · EducationORAL ROBERTS UN…Long Beach Education Foundation: $43,000 · EducationLong Beach Educ…LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $42,000 · EducationLONG BEACH CITY…Shared Science: $27,450 · EducationShared ScienceLong Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today: $22,500 · EducationLong Beach BLAS…+4 more: $23,500 · Education+4 moreRANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Arts & CultureRANCHO LOS A…MUSICAL THEATRE WEST: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL THEA…Long Beach Symphony Association: $39,000 · Arts & CultureLong Beach S…LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $28,000 · Arts & CultureLONG BEACH M…Dramatic Results: $28,000 · Arts & CultureDramatic Res…RANCHO LOS CERRITOS FOUNDATION: $27,000 · Arts & CultureRANCHO LOS C…INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONA…MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART: $23,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF LA…+4 more: $22,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreABILITYFIRST: $30,000 · Human ServicesWOMENSHELTER OF LONG BEACH: $22,000 · Human ServicesINTERVAL HOUSE: $21,000 · Human ServicesARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK: $21,000 · Human ServicesHis Little Feet: $17,000 · Human ServicesLIFE STEPS FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesChildren Today Inc: $12,000 · Human ServicesCHILD LANE: $9,500 · Human Services+3 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S DENTAL FOUNDATION: $29,000 · HealthMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $24,000 · HealthTHE GUIDANCE CENTER: $19,000 · HealthHUMANSAVE: $11,500 · HealthST MARY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $11,000 · HealthOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern California: $6,100 · HealthAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $5,000 · HealthFOOD FINDERS INC: $34,500 · Food & NutritionMeals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc: $34,500 · Food & NutritionTHE AIDS FOOD STORE INC: $11,500 · Food & NutritionLong Beach Community Table: $7,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $2,500 · Food & NutritionLONG BEACH BAR FOUNDATION: $28,000 · Crime & LegalFOR THE CHILD INC: $16,500 · Crime & LegalLONG BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION: $14,000 · Crime & LegalACTION SPORTS KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Crime & LegalHelpline Youth Counseling Inc: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,407,430Education$346,830Arts & Culture$278,000Human Services$154,000Health$105,600Food & Nutrition$90,000Crime & Legal$75,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY: $188,380 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPATHWAYS VOLUNTEER HOSPICE: $44,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetLong Beach Education Foundation: $43,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetLONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $41,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetMUSICAL THEATRE WEST: $40,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLong Beach Symphony Association: $39,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD FINDERS INC: $34,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc: $34,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE: $34,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION: $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Outreach Appeal dba Christian Outreach in Action: $31,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLeadership Long Beach: $30,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetOPERATION JUMP START: $30,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetABILITYFIRST: $30,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLONG BEACH BAR FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDramatic Results: $28,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetShared Science: $27,450 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetRANCHO LOS CERRITOS FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE: $25,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART: $23,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLong Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today: $22,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWOMENSHELTER OF LONG BEACH: $22,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK: $21,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLONG BEACH POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION: $21,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSt Francis Center: $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHuman-I-T: $20,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GUIDANCE CENTER: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLong Beach Century Club Inc: $18,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetHis Little Feet: $17,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetFOR THE CHILD INC: $16,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLIFE STEPS FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE LOVE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $14,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetNEW LIFE BEGINNINGS INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH: $13,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetChildren Today Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGROUND EDUCATION: $11,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHUMANSAVE: $11,500 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetTHE AIDS FOOD STORE INC: $11,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetST MARY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LONG BEACH SAILING FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCHILD LANE: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS OF PARKS: $9,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 FOOD FINDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Meals on Wheels of Long Beach 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 Leadership Long Beach ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION JUMP START ↗
  • Who funds ABILITYFIRST ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LONG BEACH BAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Dramatic Results ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Earl B & Loraine H Mi…Long Beach Community …The Rudolph J & Daphn…The Josephine S Gumbi…The Ralph M Parsons F…Keesal Young & Logan …Martin & Clarisse Cla…California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…Farmers & Merchants B…California Foundation…The Crail-Johnson Fou…
Earl B & Loraine H Miller FoundationCA92.6× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bess J Hodges Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bess J Hodges Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oral Roberts University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Bess J Hodges Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bess J Hodges Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 154 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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