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Giving Children Hope

We help children and families in southern california who are housing unstable and looking to build a community to sustain support in areas of food, essentials, and a pathway out of poverty.

$6.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$797k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

International$9.0MHuman Services$2.9MReligion$1.8MFood & Nutrition$739kRecreation & Sports$215kEducation$68kYouth Development$49kArts & Culture$48kOther$0
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 63 grants below total $5,782,301, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,198,499 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $416,198 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $119k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $555k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.2M
$20,562
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
I LIVE 2 GIVE$797,307
MINISTERIO CHRISTIANO CAMINANDO EN FE$426,985
MINISTERIOS BETESDA$417,674
COMPASSION CCHD FOUNDATION$395,658
UNIDOS POR LA MUSICA$296,293
MINISTERIO JESUS REY DE REYES$295,227
WORLD HARVEST CHARITIESC$287,573
WATCHITGROW INC$272,651
THE KEY NONPROFIT$238,947
MONTE SION CENTER$231,586
CARITAS SAN VICENTE$231,499
ATHLETES N EDUCATION$214,663
SALVADORENOS UNIDOS EN EL EXTERIOR$175,213
CASA MISION CRISTIANA MONTE DE SION$139,979
MADISON SANTA ANA$110,580
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 (FY22–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIDOS POR LA MUSICA: $471k → 14%UNIDOS POR LA MUSICA: $296k → 14%SPIN: $6k → 10%LOVE HOPE TOGETHER: $18k → 14%UNITED ACROSS BORDERS FOUNDATION: $14k → 10%THE KEY NONPROFIT: $239k → 14%DELHI CENTER: $34k → 10%RECOVERY ROAD INC: $132k → 10%RECOVERY ROAD INC: $101k → 10%FOCUS OC: $19k → 10%FOCUS OC: $8k → 10%LOVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $9k → 10%WATCHITGROW INC: $273k → 14%WATCHITGROW INC: $93k → 14%WORLD HARVEST CHARITIESC: $288k → 14%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%SABIL USA: $21k → 10%VOICE OF REFUGEES: $21k → 10%RADIANT FUTURES: $17k → 10%ENCOMPASS HOUSING: $8k → 10%MY SAFE HARBOR: $22k → 10%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 33 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +147% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
19

Total granted

$12M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+147%
+12%

Still filing today

42%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’22’24
Human ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentInternationalFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • MC
    MINISTERIO CRISTIANO CAMINANDO FE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $909k · revenue +342%
  • UP
    UNIDOS POR LA MUSICA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $767k · revenue +314% · 51% of their budget
  • MS
    Monte Sion Center
    9× · 2017–2025 · $291k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • SC
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIAN CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $344k · revenue -80%
  • SD
    SANTUARIO DE GUADALUPE CARSON INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $288k
  • AG
    AC GREEN YOUTH FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $274k · revenue +12%
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
Mercy for Humanity Inc

Assist less fortunate people requiring basic needs like food, clothing, transportion & shelter.

Arts & Culture
2
Cover the Homeless Ministry

This organization provides clothing, food, and medical services to low income citizens in various areas of southern california and reunite them with family

Human Services
3
Christian Outreach Appeal dba Christian Outreach in Action

Christian Outreach in Action (COA) is a non-denominational non-profit organization whose mission is to transform the lives of homeless and impoverished individuals in Long Beach and surrounding areas so they may reach and sustain…

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4
Open Arms Food Pantry & Resource Center

Our mission is to provide nutritional meal and food support, food equity programming to local communities and provide infant needs to eradicate infant mortality and abuse rates in LA County and City.

Food & Nutrition
5
Raw Ruth Anointed World Ministries

R.A.W. Ruth Anointed World Ministries is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. We provide ministry services in the area of relief to poor, distressed; underprivileged; and those suffering due to daily life challenges…

Human Services
6
Inland Empire Rescue Mission Inc

Serve the least, the last and lost in the Inland Empire

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7
Feed Our Streets Inc

Our mission is to feed the unhoused in Los Angeles and provide support to those in need.

Food & Nutrition
8
One On One Outreach Inc

One on one outreach is a 100% volunteer, non-profit organization that packs and delivers boxes of groceries, once a month to low-income families who live in a small neighborhood in south los angeles; figueroa st. between 117th street and…

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9
Shelter Care Resources

Shelter Care Resources provides basic necessities to low income, homeless and foster families. We operate a food pantry, a clothing and hygiene resource center, and help individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.Our mission…

Human Services
10
Global Relief

We provide clothing and necessities for the poor and homeless.

Human Services
11
Prodigal Sons Inc

Prodigal Sons Incorporated purpose is to minister and help marginalized individuals and communities throughout Los Angeles. We seek transformation in the lives of gang members and their familites through the ministry of the gospel in…

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12
Recycled Lives

ADVOCATING & actions focused on ceasing poverty for all of God's people throughout the world.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; the most unlike its peers is Iglesia Misionera Jesucristo Es Dios. 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

123 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.

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

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/123
Grantees still filing
79/123
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

I LIVE 2 GIVE: $1,607,640 · OtherI LIVE 2 GIVEMINISTERIOS BETESDA: $1,328,477 · OtherMINISTERIOS BETESDAONTARIO HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1,087,948 · OtherONTARIO HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCEVIDA - LIFE MINISTRIES: $956,731 · OtherVIDA - LIFE MINISTRIESCARITAS SAN VICENTE: $554,627 · OtherCARITAS SAN VICENTEMINISTERIO JESUS REY DE REYES: $434,957 · OtherNICARAGUAN MEDICAL RELIEF: $402,245 · OtherSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIAN CENTER INC: $343,711 · Other+47 more: $2,586,176 · Other+47 moreUNIDOS POR LA MUSICA: $767,283 · Human ServicesUNIDOS POR LA MU…WATCHITGROW INC: $365,535 · Human ServicesWATCHITGROW INCWORLD HARVEST CHARITIES AND FAMILY SERVICES: $287,573 · Human ServicesWORLD HARVEST CH…THE KEY NONPROFIT: $238,947 · Human ServicesTHE KEY NONPROFI…Recovery Road Inc: $233,254 · Human ServicesRecovery Road In…+12 more: $214,275 · Human Services+12 moreMINISTERIO CRISTIANO CAMINANDO FE: $909,299 · ReligionMINISTERI…Monte Sion Center: $290,974 · ReligionMonte Sio…UNITED EVANGELISTS ASSOCIATION: $58,380 · Religion+2 more: $36,496 · ReligionMINISTRY OF JERUSALEM INC: $1,212,943 · Community ImprovementMINISTRY …COMPASSION CCHD FOUNDATION: $395,658 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $27,900 · Food & NutritionLA Legends NBPRA Charitable Org: $273,149 · Recreation & SportsGood Samaritan Medical Dental Ministry: $147,070 · InternationalGIVING CHILDREN HOPE: $59,479 · International
Other$9,302,512Human Services$2,106,867Religion$1,295,149Community Improvement$1,212,943Food & Nutrition$423,558Recreation & Sports$273,149International$206,549

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 budgetUNIDOS POR LA MUSICA: $767,283 over 9y, 51% of budgetWATCHITGROW INC: $365,535 over 5y, 68% of budgetMonte Sion Center: $290,974 over 9y, 16% of budgetWORLD HARVEST CHARITIES AND FAMILY SERVICES: $287,573 over 6y, 20% of budgetTHE KEY NONPROFIT: $238,947 over 3y, 85% of budgetRecovery Road Inc: $233,254 over 5y, 77% of budgetSALVADORENOS UNIDOS EN EL EXTERIOR: $175,213 over 1y, 60% of budgetGood Samaritan Medical Dental Ministry: $147,070 over 1y, 65% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CLINIC AID INC: $89,289 over 2y, 90% of budgetGIVING CHILDREN HOPE: $59,479 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $48,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetInland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc: $44,885 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHIGHER GROUND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $36,555 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $36,342 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDELHI CENTER: $33,505 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $27,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS NORTH AMERICA: $27,276 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $26,317 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMY SAFE HARBOR INC: $21,566 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetSabil USA: $20,562 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetVOICE OF REFUGEES INC: $20,531 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation: $18,389 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE HOPE TOGETHER: $18,333 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetWOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES: $17,009 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED ACROSS BORDERS FOUNDATION: $14,336 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetLEGACY LA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CORP: $12,993 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHOLLENBECK POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $10,850 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLOVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $9,172 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetENCOMPASS HOUSING: $7,992 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMISSION OF FAITH: $7,841 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetMission Go Global: $6,144 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetServing People In Need Inc: $5,604 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5,172 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRANDMA'S HOUSE OF HOPE: $5,168 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,117 over 1y, 0.4% 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 MINISTRY OF JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds MINISTERIO CRISTIANO CAMINANDO FE ↗
  • Who funds UNIDOS POR LA MUSICA ↗
  • Who funds COMPASSION CCHD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WATCHITGROW INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Monte Sion Center ↗
  • Who funds WORLD HARVEST CHARITIES AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds AC GREEN YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LA Legends NBPRA Charitable Org ↗
  • Who funds THE KEY NONPROFIT ↗
  • Who funds Recovery Road Inc ↗
  • Who funds SALVADORENOS UNIDOS EN EL EXTERIOR ↗
  • Who funds Good Samaritan Medical Dental Ministry ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CLINIC AID INC ↗
  • Who funds GIVING CHILDREN HOPE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED EVANGELISTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Inland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER GROUND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Orange County's Unite…Orange County Communi…Sisters of St Joseph …Feed the Children IncUnited Movement IncFood Forward IncWeingart FoundationLos Angeles Regional …Farmers & Merchants B…O L Halsell FoundationSt Joseph Health Syst…Food Finders Inc
Orange County's United WayCA41.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County's United Way · Orange County Community Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Feed the Children Inc · United Movement Inc · Food Forward Inc · Weingart Foundation · Los Angeles Regional Food Bank · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · St Joseph Health System Foundation · Food Finders Inc

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 Giving Children Hope funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Giving Children Hope. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 83 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $12M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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