California · Private foundation
Henley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $227k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $176,378
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Henley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $227k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $77k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $921k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $1.3M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $234k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $321k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $227k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $432k | 56% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapman University | $1,540,371 | 7 | 0% |
| Concordia University Irvine | $515,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Richard Nixon Foundation | $241,378 | 6 | 0% |
| Family Promise of Orange County | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Lutheran High School Association of Orange County | $65,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Peace Lutheran Church | $48,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Santa Ana Kiwanis Club Foundation | $36,000 | 7 | 4% |
| University of Massachusetts Global | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $18,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Field of Valor | $17,500 | 4 | 7% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Henley Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Henley Foundation
- How much does Henley Foundation give?
- Henley Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $226,728 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Henley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Religion (32%), Public Benefit (6%).
- Who are Henley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chapman University ($1.5M), Concordia University Irvine ($515k), The Richard Nixon Foundation ($241k).
- Does Henley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Henley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Henley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation, Donors Trust Inc.
- Where is Henley Foundation based?
- Henley Foundation is based in CA.
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