· Private foundation
Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $450k
- $250k+8 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Mayors Fund For Los Angeles | $1,500,000 |
| Monarch School | $1,100,000 |
| Air Force Enlisted Village | $1,000,000 |
| Operation Homefront | $550,000 |
| Chrysalis | $400,000 |
| World War II Foundation | $310,000 |
| RAIN Inc | $300,000 |
| US Vets | $300,000 |
| Chordoma Foundation | $150,000 |
| High Point University | $150,000 |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $100,000 |
| Basser Institute | $50,000 |
| Good Shepherd Shelter | $25,000 |
| Recovery Shot | $25,000 |
| American Film Institute | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $5.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +67% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- TNTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC6× · 2017–2022 · $7.9M · revenue +26%
- MSMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +89%
- OHOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +41%
Funded once
- UMUSS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +18%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESSone grant, 2023 · $890k
- NYNew York Historical Societyone grant, 2019 · $375k · revenue +1%
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.
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
Swords to plowshares' mission is to heal the wounds of war, to restore dignity, hope and self-sufficiency to all veterans in need, and to significantly reduce homelessness and poverty among veterans.
Our mission is to provide a holistic approach to support veterans with disabilities by removing barriers in every aspect of their lives. this includes funding customized, barrier-free home modificationssuch as wheelchair-accessible…
Housing, employment, and physical and mental health services for women overcoming homelessness and poverty.
Homes 4 families' mission is to build resiliency, economic growth, neighborhoods, and homes for veterans and their families.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…
Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The center provides a place of community to end isolation, build relationships, and introduce housing, health and wellness services to adult individuals experiencing homelessness in hollywood. it contracts with public and non-profit grant…
Preserve and protect earned benefits for our uniformed services, veterans, their families, and surviving spouses through advocacy, leadership, education and service. provide first-class service to our members. we are the leading voice on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 97 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 THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds USO - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA INC DBA BOB HOPE USO ↗
- Who funds AIR FORCE ENLISTED VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL AID FOR INTERIM NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds LEAH'S PANTRY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WAR II FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHORDOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Armed Services Arts Partnership ↗
- Who funds GINA ROSE MONTALTO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD ON FOOT ↗
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: The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Green Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Lori · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Banc of California Charitable 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 Bob & Dolores Hope 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.
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% 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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