· Private foundation
Higher Rock Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $308k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $188k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Operation Mobilization - General | $77,500 |
| Sedera - Jesus Family Kingdom | $60,030 |
| Justice Rising International | $50,000 |
| Care of Children | $45,000 |
| Acres of Love | $45,000 |
| AsOne | $40,000 |
| Project CURE | $33,270 |
| Harbor Point Church | $28,336 |
| AIRO | $24,000 |
| Riverbank Organization | $21,600 |
| Healing At the Well | $10,300 |
| UNIDOS South OC | $10,000 |
| i5 Freedom Network | $10,000 |
| Discovery Cube orange County | $10,000 |
| Plant With Purpose | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 87% of grant dollars ($906k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($135k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 13% of all-years giving ($135k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Higher Rock Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 31%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 12 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAIRO3× · 2023–2025 · $36k · revenue +3%
- FUFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED3× · 2023–2025 · $34k · revenue +280%
- LHLogos Healing Institute2× · 2024–2025 · $17k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- JFJesus Family Kingdomone grant, 2024 · $75k
- PBPeanut Butter Jesusone grant, 2024 · $20k
- OCOrange County Rescue Mission Incone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -7%
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.
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.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…
Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.
Journey To Destiny Ministries (JTDM) is a global, faith-based nonprofit organization committed to transforming and restoring dignity, hope, and opportunity to vulnerable individualsespecially children, women, and families affected by…
Provide holistic and integrated service that address the diverse needs of vulnerable individuals and families experiencing instability as the result of domestic violence and /or homelessness.
Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
RLMI is organized exclusively for charitable purposes. Our Mission is to minister to the Haitian people beginning in the village of Laffiteau seeking to share the love of Jesus with each individual and discipling those who know Jesus as…
Church world service, inc. is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.
Free Rain provides resources and empowering, educational programs to aid those enslaved, impoverished, and exploited. Our vision is to create options and opportunities for those rescued and oppressed in order to make positive and radical…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 45 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ACRES OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds AIRO ↗
- Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGACY RELIEF PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE RIVERBANK ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Logos Healing Institute ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIDOS South OC Inc ↗
- Who funds I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Peace House Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Align Ministries DBA Align International ↗
- Who funds ONE ATTA TIME INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WYLDE HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING FACILITY ↗
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: Optivest Foundation · RightSpace Storage Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Higher Rock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Higher Rock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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