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Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation at a glance

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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.

$6.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$17MArts & Culture$13MEducation$4.0MFood & Nutrition$2.6MHealth$2.5MHousing & Shelter$2.4MPublic Benefit$1.3MEnvironment$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $450k
  • $250k+8 grants · $5.5M
$150,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$75M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
US Vets$300,000
RAIN Inc$300,000
High Point University$150,000
Chordoma Foundation$150,000
Gary Sinise Foundation$100,000
Basser Institute$50,000
Recovery Shot$25,000
American Film Institute$25,000
Good Shepherd Shelter$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Recovery Shot: $25k → 10%Leah's Pantry Inc: $150k → 10%Regional Aid for Interim Needs Inc: $508k → 28%Center For Family Justice - Camp Ho: $25k → 9%The Connecticut Hospice Inc: $3k → 12%Recovery Shot: $25k → 10%Leah's Pantry Inc: $150k → 10%Regional Aid for Interim Needs Inc: $500k → 28%Leah's Pantry Inc: $75k → 10%Regional Aid for Interim Needs Inc: $500k → 28%Regional Aid for Interim Needs Inc: $500k → 28%Regional Aid for Interim Needs Inc: $8k → 28%Regional Aid for Interim Needs Inc: $8k → 28%Covenant House California: $25k → 14%Covenant House California: $20k → 14%Maryvale: $20k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $50k → 14%Food on Foot: $50k → 14%Food on Foot: $25k → 14%Food on Foot: $25k → 14%Food on Foot: $20k → 14%El Proyecto Del Barrio Inc: $5k → 14%US Vets: $400k → 14%US Vets: $400k → 14%US Vets: $300k → 14%US Vets: $300k → 14%Midnight Mission: $126k → 14%US Vets: $300k → 14%Midnight Mission: $100k → 14%US Vets: $300k → 14%Midnight Mission: $100k → 14%US Vets: $287k → 14%Midnight Mission: $89k → 14%US Vets: $100k → 14%Midnight Mission: $50k → 14%US Vets: $13k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
IL
NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40M · 42 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +50% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
51

Total granted

$40M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+50%

Still filing today

64%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationPublic BenefitHealthOther
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

  • TN
    THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $7.9M · revenue +26%
  • MS
    MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +89%
  • OH
    OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • UM
    USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +18%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
    one grant, 2023 · $890k
  • NY
    New York Historical Society
    one grant, 2019 · $375k · revenue +1%
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
Interval House

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…

Human Services
2
Swords to Plowshares Veterans Rights Organization

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.

Public Benefit
3
Homes for Veterans a Nj Non Profit Corporation

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 & Shelter
4
Downtown Women's Center

Housing, employment, and physical and mental health services for women overcoming homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
5
Homes for Families

Homes 4 families' mission is to build resiliency, economic growth, neighborhoods, and homes for veterans and their families.

Housing & Shelter
6
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

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.

Human Services
7
Veterans Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Housing Works

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Aerial Recovery

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,…

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10
University of Southern California

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…

Education
11
The Center in Hollywood

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…

Human Services
12
Military Officers Association of America

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…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles; 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 97 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
45/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USO - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA INC DBA BOB HOPE USO: $2,228,150 · OtherUSO - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA INC DBA BOB…RAIN Inc: $1,291,905 · OtherRAIN IncCHRYSALIS: $1,225,000 · OtherCHRYSALISEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $1,100,000 · OtherEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INCProvidence St Joseph Foundation: $1,100,000 · OtherProvidence St Joseph FoundationUnited Services Organizations: $900,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: $890,000 · OtherUSO: $600,000 · OtherAIR FORCE ENLISTED VILLAGE INC: $2,100,000 · OtherAIR FORCE ENLISTED VILLAGE INCFOODCORPS INC: $1,100,000 · OtherFOODCORPS INCWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $710,000 · Other+53 more: $3,927,498 · Other+53 moreTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $7,908,001 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II…USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureUSS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASS…PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM: $570,000 · Arts & CulturePEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUS…New York Historical Society: $375,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD WAR II FOUNDATION: $360,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $34,375 · Arts & CultureUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $2,400,001 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES…REGIONAL AID FOR INTERIM NEEDS INC: $2,022,652 · Human ServicesREGIONAL AID …THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $464,990 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT …LEAH'S PANTRY: $375,000 · Human ServicesLEAH'S PANTRY+9 more: $342,500 · Human Services+9 moreMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $3,535,000 · EducationMONARCH S…HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationArmed Services Arts Partnership: $136,250 · Education+2 more: $136,790 · EducationOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $3,178,468 · Community ImprovementCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $2,920,000 · Public Benefit+3 more: $91,000 · Public BenefitTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,200,001 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$17,172,553Arts & Culture$10,247,376Human Services$5,605,143Education$3,958,040Community Improvement$3,178,468Public Benefit$3,011,000Philanthropy$2,701,001

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $7,908,001 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $3,535,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $3,178,468 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $2,920,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $2,400,001 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetUSO - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA INC DBA BOB HOPE USO: $2,228,150 over 4y, 15% of budgetAIR FORCE ENLISTED VILLAGE INC: $2,100,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetREGIONAL AID FOR INTERIM NEEDS INC: $2,022,652 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $1,500,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,200,001 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $1,100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOODCORPS INC: $1,100,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetUSS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $710,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM: $570,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $464,990 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $401,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetLEAH'S PANTRY: $375,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $375,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWORLD WAR II FOUNDATION: $360,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCHORDOMA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $187,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArmed Services Arts Partnership: $136,250 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetGINA ROSE MONTALTO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $126,790 over 4y, 31% of budgetFOOD ON FOOT: $120,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Francis Center: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUPWARD BOUND HOUSE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRECOVERY SHOT: $50,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH HOLLYWOOD INTERFAITH FOOD PAN: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY'S COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMARYVALE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUSO (UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS) OF NORTHERN OHIO: $19,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCornell University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $9,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL PROYECTO DEL BARRIO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER ROOM DINING HALL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 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 EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOODCORPS 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 LEAH'S PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Annenberg Foundat…California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Green FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…Weingart FoundationSempra FoundationConrad N Hilton Found…Gary E Milgard Family…Carrie Estelle Doheny…Banc of California Ch…
The Annenberg FoundationPA20× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • The Center for Family Justice Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
16report 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 Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bob & Dolores Hope 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 97 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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