· Private foundation
Bill Holmes Charitable Trust co Susan Holmes CEO
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $266k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Doctors Without Boarders | $32,796 |
| Happy Hill Farm for Children | $28,592 |
| Food for the Poor | $28,592 |
| Share Our Selves | $28,592 |
| Orange County Rescue Mission | $28,592 |
| Feed the Children | $28,591 |
| Cross International | $28,591 |
| International Children's Surgical F | $17,659 |
| ST JOSEPH INDIAN SCHOOL | $17,659 |
| St Jude's Childrens Research Hospit | $13,454 |
| SAMUELI ACADEMY | $12,614 |
| Barium Springs Home for Children | $9,251 |
| Friends of San Pasqual Academy | $9,250 |
| Crossnore School Children's Home | $9,250 |
| Palmer Home for Children | $9,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OCOrange County Rescue Mission Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $301k · revenue +39%
Share Our Selves Corporation7× · 2017–2025 · $271k · revenue +63%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $203k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- CCCHOC Childrens Hospitalone grant, 2017 · $12M
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.
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.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The mission of Laurel House (dba Hope Harbor) is providing a home for teens in crisis, transforming lives, and strengthening families. Laurel House has the only long-term youth shelters in Orange County, CA for runaway, homeless and…
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
The mission of homeless intervention services of orange county is to provide support and assistance to the underprivileged and unhoused to improve their quality of life and to help them regain stability and hope.
In collaboration with our partners, we provide dignified, equitable and consistent access to nutritious food, creating a foundation for community health.
Family assistance ministries is a faith-based charitable non-profit organization assisting those in need in southern orange county with resources for food, shelter, and personalized counsel and aid, helping clients bridge the gap from…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds Share Our Selves Corporation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BARIUM SPRINGS HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SAMUELI ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bill Holmes Charitable Trust co Susan Holmes CEO funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bill Holmes Charitable Trust co Susan Holmes CEO. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
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