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Henley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Richard Nixon Foundation | $176,378 |
| Concordia University | $20,000 |
| Orange Lutheran High School | $15,000 |
| St John Lutheran Church | $3,500 |
| Conservative Partnership Institute | $3,000 |
| Field of Valor | $2,500 |
| Public Interest Legal Foundation | $1,500 |
| Hebrew Day School | $1,000 |
| US Justice Foundation | $1,000 |
| 60 Plus Foundation | $500 |
| World War II Veterans Committee | $500 |
| Election Fairness Institute | $500 |
| Eisenhower Foundation | $500 |
| American Battlefield Trust | $250 |
| National D-Day Memorial Foundation | $200 |
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 (FY17–25, $102k) 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 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 +33% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +62%
- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE4× · 2020–2025 · $515k · revenue +33%
- TRTHE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $241k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- SJSt John's Lutheran Church of Orangeone grant, 2023 · $747k
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF ORANGE COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -23%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS GLOBALone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +15%
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 american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Educate/advocate for effective corporate governance and public company disclosure, strong shareholder rights and fair capital markets.
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The Foundations Mission is to enhance our understanding of the Constitution and our constitutional history.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Field of Valor. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 47 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 CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE ↗
- Who funds THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Santa Ana Kiwanis Club Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds Field of Valor ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Orange ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CENTERS OF ORANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Miss Washington Scholarship Organization ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE 60 PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Eisenhower Foundation ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds GRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELECTION FAIRNESS INSTITUTE ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Henley 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.
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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