California · Private foundation
Hesed 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.
- $237k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $71,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Hesed Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 17 | $237k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $159k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $259k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $193k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $140k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $42k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $35k | 55% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $56k | 77% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fuller Theological Seminary | $357,090 | 7 | 0% |
| Scholar Leaders International | $152,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization | $65,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Dream Center Foundation | $50,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Care for Children Care for Children - USA Inc | $46,246 | 4 | 3% |
| Venice Free Methodist Church | $44,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Center for Studies in Global Christianity Inc | $35,600 | 4 | 1% |
| Christ for the City International Inc | $28,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Cure International Inc | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Vision International Alliance | $16,870 | 6 | 7% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($322k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hesed 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: The Fuller Foundation · First Fruit Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Lilly Endowment Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About Hesed Foundation
- How much does Hesed Foundation give?
- Hesed Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $237,449 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hesed Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Religion (41%), International (6%).
- Who are Hesed Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fuller Theological Seminary ($357k), Scholar Leaders International ($153k), Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization ($65k).
- Does Hesed Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hesed Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hesed Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Fuller Foundation, First Fruit Inc, Christian Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Hesed Foundation based?
- Hesed Foundation is based in CA.
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