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Hennings - Fischer 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $222k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLYMPIA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| HOMELESS HEALTH CARE | $30,000 |
| BURBANK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE | $15,000 |
| SATURDAY CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $15,000 |
| EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC | $15,000 |
| THE MUSIC GUILD | $15,000 |
| LA COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THOUSAND OAKS PHILHARMONIC | $10,000 |
| GLENDALE CITY SDA CHURCH | $9,000 |
| SOUTH COAST SYMPHONY | $8,000 |
| ASTA LOS ANGELES SECTION | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of your 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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
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
- OPOLYMPIA PHIHARMONIC SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +9% · 68% of their budget
- BPBURBANK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA8× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +3% · 40% of their budget
- TMTHE MUSIC GUILD8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- VOVIOLINS OF HOPE LONG BEACH SYMPHONYone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
As a non-profit, artistic organization, the mission of the MOORPARK SYMPHONYORCHESTRA is to provide high quality, affordable musical performances that delight our audiences. Our objective is to inspire, entertain, and serve our community…
The mission of Irvine Classical Players Orchestra is to provide each of its members with the unique opportunity to perform as soloists in an orchestral setting. In an attempt to assure the highest level of musicianship and performance…
Performs five to seven concerts per season in orange county, ca. a member of the american symphony orchestra league and the association of california symphony orchestra
The mission of the Corona Symphony Orchestra is to bring the richness of live orchestral music to the people of the Inland Empire and to represent Corona and the region with musical excellence as one of the premiere performing ensembles.
To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…
Youth Orchestra
The South Bay Chamber Music Society is dedicated to promoting the appreciation of chamber music throughout the South Bay community. We provide free access to performances by top-quality ensembles, ensuring that this art form is open to…
The mission of the Winchester Orchestra is to experience and share the joy of playing orchestral music with the people of San Jose in a friendly and enjoyable concert atmosphere.
The presentation of symphonic and chamber music
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra strives to enlighten and inspire the diverse citizenry of Culver City and the Los Angeles area through the presentation of orchestral music concerts, to present works of American composers, and to…
The orchestra's mission is to provide cultural enrichment, education and entertainment to the community through presenting professional quality orchestral, chamber and solo performances at an affordable price; provide opportunities for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thousand Oaks Philharmonic and the most unlike its peers is Ucla Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 42 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 OLYMPIA PHIHARMONIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BURBANK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC GUILD ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES JEWISH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds The La Mirada Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND OAKS PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Youth Orchestra ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Hennings - Fischer 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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