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Hernan Lopez Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$386k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Civil Rights$1.4MEducation$399kArts & Culture$25kPhilanthropy$7kEmployment$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $203k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLAAD$125,000
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FUND$50,000
THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK$35,000
CITY YEAR INC$25,000
RIDEBACK RISE$25,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO$25,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$25,000
POINT FOUNDATION$25,000
LITERACY PARTNERS$12,500
ENDEAVOR$10,000
INEVITABLE FOUNDATION$10,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS$10,000
UCLA$5,000
BIG SUNDAY$2,500
SABAN COMMUNITY CLINIC$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CITY YEAR INC: $100k → 16%OUT & EQUAL: $5k → 10%STARTOUT: $5k → 10%SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER: $3k → 14%LATINO U COLLEGE ACCESS: $5k → 9%LITERACY PARTNERS: $13k → 17%WOMENS FUND MIAMI-DADE: $525 → 15%CITY YEAR INC: $50k → 16%PROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $25k → 14%LATINO U COLLEGE ACCESS: $5k → 9%LITERACY PARTNERS: $13k → 17%THE MIAMI FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%CITY YEAR INC: $25k → 16%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LITERACY PARTNERS: $1k → 17%CITY YEAR INC: $25k → 16%SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER: $2k → 14%ENDEAVOR: $25k → 17%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $25k → 14%ENDEAVOR: $25k → 17%UCLA: $5k → 14%PREP FOR PREP: $5k → 17%UCLA: $5k → 14%INEVITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%RIDEBACK RISE: $25k → 14%ENDEAVOR: $10k → 17%RIDEBACK RISE: $25k → 14%ENDEAVOR: $10k → 17%ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FUND: $50k → 14%THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $35k → 17%LATINO DONOR COLLABORATIVE: $250k → 14%THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $35k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $10k → 14%THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $35k → 17%POINT FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $35k → 17%POINT FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $10k → 17%POINT FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%POINT FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%SABAN COMMUNITY CLINIC: $500 → 14%BIG SUNDAY: $3k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 10 repeat orgs$389k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$1.9M
$266k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-2%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementSocial ScienceOther
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

  • TN
    THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK
    5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +52%
  • PF
    POINT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +53%
  • LP
    Literacy Partners Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • LD
    LATINO DONOR COLLABORATIVE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -33%
  • OE
    OUT & EQUAL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +22%
  • PF
    PREP FOR PREP
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -32%
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
Latino Corporate Directors Association

Lcda serves as an advocate and resource to corporate boards, search firms, private equity, and institutional investors interested in gaining access to exceptional latino board talent.

Education
2
Latino Media Collaborative

Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…

Arts & Culture
3
The Council of Urban Professionals Institute

The council of urban professionals institute's (cupi)mission is to inspire, elevate, and empower the next generation of diverse business, civic leaders and women.

Community Improvement
4
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
5
Alliance for a Better Community

Advancing social, economic, racial equity and justice for the latino / a community and the los angeles region through power building and policy advocacy.

Community Improvement
6
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
7
Women in Cable Telecommunications

The wict network develops women leaders who transform our industry.

Community Improvement
8
Women Action & the Media Corp

Gender equity in media access, representation, employment and ownership and a world in which a just media is considered essential to a just society. women, action & the media (wam) connects and supports media makers, activists, academics…

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9
New Media Ventures

We believe that by changing where capital is invested, we can shift the structures of power to benefit more people.

Public Benefit
10
Disabilityin

The organization is the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. together with the world's leading brands, disability:in drives progress on disability inclusion through initiatives, tools, and expertise that…

Community Improvement
11
New Rising Ventures

New rising ventures supports early-stage, nonpartisan entrepreneurs and activists transforming our democracy through innovation and bridges a critical gap not fulfilled by traditional grant-makers or venture capital. our signature four…

Philanthropy
12
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Year Inc; the most unlike its peers is Big Sunday. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 24 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
9/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLAAD INC: $1,315,000 · OtherGLAAD INCCITY YEAR INC: $200,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCENDEAVOR: $70,000 · Other+5 more: $75,525 · OtherLATINO DONOR COLLABORATIVE INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureLATINO DONOR COL…RIDEBACK RISE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureRIDEBACK RISE IN…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CALIFOR…+1 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $150,000 · EducationTHE NEW YORK O…POINT FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationPOINT FOUNDATI…Literacy Partners Inc: $26,037 · EducationLiteracy Partn…LATINO U COLLEGE ACCESS INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthINEVITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $1,045 · PhilanthropyOUT & EQUAL: $5,000 · Social ScienceBig Sunday: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Other$1,660,525Arts & Culture$329,000Education$291,037Health$25,500Philanthropy$16,045Social Science$5,000Community Improvement$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLAAD INC: $1,315,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetLATINO DONOR COLLABORATIVE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRIDEBACK RISE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc: $26,037 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLATINO U COLLEGE ACCESS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOUT & EQUAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARTOUT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sunday: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $1,045 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF MIAMI-DADE INC: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Hernan Lopez Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hernan Lopez Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hernan Lopez Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hernan Lopez Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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