· Private foundation
Hollywood Canteen 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE | $9,000 |
| NEW DIRECTIONS INC | $7,000 |
| THE SHAKESPEARE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES | $6,500 |
| SPIRIT OF AMERICA | $6,500 |
| QUALITY OF LIFE PLUS PROGRAM | $4,600 |
| SENTINELS OF FREEDOM | $4,500 |
| ARMED SERVICES YMCA | $4,500 |
| WOUNDED HEROES FUND | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS | $3,500 |
| INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND | $3,500 |
| OUR NATIONS HEROES FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| LONE SURVIVOR FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT FOR VETERANS | $3,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSHAKESPEARE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +147%
- SOSpirit of America Worldwide5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +168%
- SOSentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CCCULVER CITY VET CENTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.
The fund cares for our nation's critically wounded, ill, and injured service members, veterans and military families. we assist all military branches, including both post-9/11 and vietnam veterans, providing one-on-one case management,…
Soldiers' angels provides aid, comfort, and resources to the military, veterans, and their families.
The navy seal foundation provides critical support for the warriors, veterans, and families of naval special warfare.
Supports combat veterans in overcoming the challenges of post-military transition by reconnecting those who served together overseas through the execution of recovery reunions.
The mission of the purple heart foundation is to enhance the quality of life of purple heart recipients and other honorably discharged veterans and their families.
To serve the crisis management, information and referral needs of america's veterans and their families.
To develop, operate, and support a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life, and event-based initiatives in support of today's combat-wounded military personnel and their families, while facilitating a greater recognition and…
The Special Operations Fund (the "Fund") is a nonprofit organization that provides educational grants and support to the families of special mission unit warriors killed in action, killed in training, died in the line of duty, suicide, and…
The mission of the texas wounded warrior foundation is to raise awareness, to honor, and to empower our wounded united state military warriors, enabling them to assimilate back to daily life upon their return from combat. we seek to…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 28 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 SHAKESPEARE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Spirit of America Worldwide ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR FAMILIES ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hollywood Canteen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hollywood Canteen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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