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Henry L Guenther Foundation at a glance

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Henry L Guenther Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
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.

Health$18MEducation$2.9MHuman Services$2.2MPhilanthropy$910kScience & Tech$803kYouth Development$589kHousing & Shelter$572kFood & Nutrition$549kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $712k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.2M
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$116M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rady Children's Hospital- San Diego$500,000
Providence Little Company of Mary Foundation$450,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$450,000
Glendale Adventist Medical Center Foundation$300,000
Salk Institute for Biological Studies$288,000
Long Beach Medical Center$250,000
Saint John's Health Center Foundation$200,000
Braille Institute of America Inc$200,000
Jenesse Center Inc$150,000
Mater Dei High School$100,000
Richstone Center Inc$85,000
Alzheimer's Greater Los Angeles$75,000
American Red Cross$62,000
House Institute Foundation$50,000
Union Station Homeless Services$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $25k → 8%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $36k → 14%Break the Barriers Inc: $25k → 19%Guide Dogs for the Blind: $10k → 8%Boys Republic: $10k → 14%Carol's Kitchen Inc: $25k → 11%Downtown Women's Center: $20k → 14%Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $25k → 10%Happy Trails for Kids: $20k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 14%Harvest Home: $35k → 14%Richstone Center Inc: $85k → 14%Exceptional Children's Foundation (ECF): $54k → 14%Claris Health: $20k → 14%Fallbrook Senior Citizens Service Club: $45k → 11%Casa de Amaro: $25k → 11%American Red Cross: $62k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 10%Foundation for Women Warriors: $15k → 11%Wellnest: $75k → 14%HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $250k → 14%Human Services Association: $150k → 14%Foothill Family Service: $20k → 14%SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $102k → 14%Covenant House California: $15k → 14%Caterina's Club: $20k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $15k → 10%Jenesse Center Inc: $150k → 14%Children of the Night Inc: $15k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $30k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $50k → 14%Children's Institute Inc: $50k → 14%St Anne's Family Services: $40k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $50k → 14%Santa Clarita Valley Committee on Aging: $20k → 14%Los Angeles House of Ruth: $50k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $15k → 14%Proyecto Pastoral: $15k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $25k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $25k → 14%Life Steps Foundation Inc: $25k → 14%Midnight Mission: $20k → 14%Pasadena Senior Center: $20k → 14%St Joseph Center: $20k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $200k → 14%Braille Institute of America Inc: $200k → 14%ICAN California Abilities Network: $25k → 14%OPICA ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC: $20k → 14%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Henry L Guenther Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 92%.

Henry L Guenther Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 64 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
185

Total granted

$12M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+24%

Still filing today

86%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF ORANGE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.5M · revenue +48%
  • TM
    Torrance Memorial Medical Center
    4× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +46%
  • PL
    PROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2024 · $750k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • SM
    SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $600k · revenue -41%
  • UV
    USC VERDUGO HILLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +28% · 25% of their budget
  • KM
    KECK MEDICAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
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
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
2
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
3
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
4
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
5
Valle Del Sol Inc

Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.

Health
6
San Fernando Community Hospital

Provides primary care, oral health, and behavioral health care, including health education to the community without regard to the ability to pay for services.

Health
7
Wise and Healthy Aging

The organization is a multi-service, 501c(3) not-for-profit, social services organization serving seniors throughout los angeles and san bernardio counties, with emphasis on low-income and/or underserved individuals. the organization…

Health
8
Via Care Community Health Center

Providing health care services to the poor and underserved of los angeles.

Health
9
La Clinica Del Valle Family Health Care Center Inc

La clinica provides primary and preventive medical, dental, behavioral health, and other health promotion services to underserved and low-income patients.

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10
Scan Health Plan

Scan's mission is to keep seniors healthy and independent.

Health
11
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
12
South Central Los Angeles Regional Center for Dev Disabled Persons Inc

South central los angeles regional center, (sclarc), believes special needs deserve special attention. we are committed to the provision of culturally sensitive services which enhance the inherent strengths of the family and enable…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Foodbank of Southern California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

243 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 243 of the 287 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
237/243
Grantees still filing
167/243
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF ORANGE: $1,500,000 · HealthST JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF ORANGETorrance Memorial Medical Center: $1,300,000 · HealthTorrance Memorial Medical CenterCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $700,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $623,250 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATIONGlendale Adventist Medical Center Fdtn Adventist Health Glendale Foundation: $550,000 · HealthSharp Healthcare Foundation: $550,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA: $539,000 · HealthUSC VERDUGO HILLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500,000 · HealthRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO: $500,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTH: $400,000 · Health+34 more: $4,164,953 · Health+34 moreRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $800,000 · OtherRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALPASADENA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION DBA HUNTINGTON HOSPI: $600,000 · OtherPASADENA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION DBA …KECK MEDICAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN: $500,000 · OtherKECK MEDICAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERS…Memorial Medical Center Foundation FBO Miller: $500,000 · OtherMemorial Medical Center Foundation…Long Beach Medical Center: $500,000 · OtherLong Beach Medical CenterCity of Hope: $500,000 · OtherCity of HopeREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $423,600 · OtherSt Joseph Hospital of Orange Foundation: $300,000 · OtherMagan Hall Loma Linda University: $275,000 · Other+75 more: $3,742,000 · Other+75 moreLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY: $1,200,000 · EducationLOMA LINDA…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $500,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $250,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $117,000 · EducationSIMPSON UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · Education+12 more: $382,800 · Education+12 moreBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $400,000 · Human ServicesBRAILLE IN…Human Services Association: $400,000 · Human ServicesHuman Serv…Jenesse Center Inc: $150,000 · Human ServicesJenesse Ce…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $112,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $101,742 · Human ServicesTHE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $85,000 · Human Services+34 more: $1,110,000 · Human Services+34 morePROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION: $750,000 · PhilanthropySADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $600,000 · PhilanthropyTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DRAGON KIM FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $288,000 · Science & TechALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES: $50,000 · Science & TechBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SOLA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentANY BODY CAN YOUTH FOUNDATION: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOLLENBECK POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADING LEGACIES: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentOUTDOOR OUTREACH: $15,000 · Youth Development
Health$11,327,203Other$8,140,600Education$2,549,800Human Services$2,358,742Philanthropy$1,720,000Science & Tech$338,000Youth Development$203,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF ORANGE: $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTorrance Memorial Medical Center: $1,300,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY: $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $700,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $623,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGlendale Adventist Medical Center Fdtn Adventist Health Glendale Foundation: $550,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $550,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA: $539,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUSC VERDUGO HILLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $400,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHuman Services Association: $400,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGLENDALE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $293,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $288,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION-INLAND EMPIRE: $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEmanate Health Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUSC ARCADIA HOSPITAL: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPIH Health Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHENRY MAYO NEWHALL MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBEVERLY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION HOWARD EHRENBERG CH 11 BKCY TSTEE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK: $172,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJenesse Center Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVALLEY PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $117,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $112,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $101,742 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTHE DRAGON KIM FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetST JUDE HOSPITAL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMPSON UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $97,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $95,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LET IT BE FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $85,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetST MARY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $84,453 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

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.

The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Rose Hills Founda…Weingart FoundationCalifornia Community …Orange County Communi…The Green FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…S Mark Taper Foundati…Sempra FoundationShelter Partnership I…Kaiser Foundation Hos…
The Ahmanson FoundationCA110.1× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

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 Henry L Guenther Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry L Guenther Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    85report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 287 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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