Wisconsin · Private foundation
Hollywood Canteen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $107k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 23
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Hollywood Canteen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 23 | $95k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $107k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $103k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $117k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $115k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles | $38,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Spirit of America Worldwide | $38,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New Directions Inc | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Wounded Heroes Fund Kern County | $22,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation | $19,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc | $18,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Operation Red Wings Foundation | $15,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Our Nations Heroes Foundation | $15,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Seal-Nsw Family Foundation | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles | $38,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Spirit of America Worldwide | $38,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New Directions Inc | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Wounded Heroes Fund Kern County | $22,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation | $19,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc | $18,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Operation Red Wings Foundation | $15,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Our Nations Heroes Foundation | $15,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Seal-Nsw Family Foundation | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $14,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Homes for Families | $7,500 | 2 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($293k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hollywood Canteen 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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Hollywood Canteen Foundation
- How much does Hollywood Canteen Foundation give?
- Hollywood Canteen Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $107,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 23 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Hollywood Canteen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Health (16%), Education (16%).
- Who are Hollywood Canteen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles ($38k), Spirit of America Worldwide ($38k), New Directions Inc ($23k).
- Does Hollywood Canteen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hollywood Canteen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hollywood Canteen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Hollywood Canteen Foundation based?
- Hollywood Canteen Foundation is based in WI.
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