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Hg 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTALLATION GALLERY | $66,666 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC | $40,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $33,333 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO | $19,695 |
| VILLA MUSICA | $11,200 |
| GILLISPIE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMITTE FOR MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS OF MODERN ART | $6,652 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERA FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| FUNDACION CASA SANATA ANA | $2,500 |
| ATHENAUEM | $2,000 |
| LAS PATRONAS | $1,594 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AHARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC4× · 2020–2024 · $162k · revenue +22%
- LPLAS PATRONAS5× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +25%
- PFPORTAL FOR INVESTMENT IN THE LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL SECTOR2× · 2020–2021 · $35k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- LOLA OPERAone grant, 2022 · $25k
- MMMUSEO MODERNO BUENOS AIRESone grant, 2023 · $15k
- ODOpen Door Foundationone grant, 2022 · $12k
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.
The Museo De Las Americas is dedicated to educating our community through collecting preserving interpreting and exhibiting the diverse arts and cultures of the Americas from ancient to contemporary through innovative exhibitions and…
to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and publishing platform that is dedicated to providing inclusive perspectives on contemporary art. Publishing in both print and online, Carla is an…
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…
To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…
Through its exhibitions and outreach programs, the institute of contemporary art, los angeles fosters diversity, innovation, and discovery in contemporary art - local, national, and international.
Lace both champions and challenges the art of our time by fostering artists who innovate, explore, and risk. we move within and beyond our four walls to provide opportunities for diverse publics to engage deeply with contemporary art. in…
Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.
A+d architecture and design museum's mission is to celebrate and promote an awareness of progressive architecture and design in everyday life.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Mitchell Thorp Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 30 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 INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INSTALLATION GALLERY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds LAS PATRONAS ↗
- Who funds PORTAL FOR INVESTMENT IN THE LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL SECTOR ↗
- Who funds THE GILLISPIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds VILLA MUSICA ↗
- Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Mitchell Thorp Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds 1 SAN DIEGO ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Hg 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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