· Private foundation
Henley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Election Fairness Institute | $500 |
| World War II Veterans Committee | $500 |
| Eisenhower Foundation | $500 |
| 60 Plus Foundation | $500 |
| American Battlefield Trust | $250 |
| Truman Library Institute | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Miss Washington Scholarship Organization ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Eisenhower Foundation ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds GRACEWORKS LUTHERAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE 60 PLUS FOUNDATION 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Henley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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