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Hotchkis 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.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$361kEducation$332kEnvironment$143kPhilanthropy$70kHealth$53kInternational$20kFood & Nutrition$16kRecreation & Sports$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYFIELD SENIOR SCHOOL$22,000
OCEANOGRAPHIC TEACHING STATIONS$16,000
SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION$15,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$10,000
FILM INDEPENDENT$10,000
LAGUNA ARTS MUSEUM$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
PASADENA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION$5,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$3,500
JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT$3,500
FESTIVAL OF ARTS$3,000
YOUNG AMERICAS FOUNDATION$2,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INST$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 10%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$850k · 26 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
10

Total granted

$850k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+50%

Still filing today

88%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PA
    PS ARTS
    3× · 2017–2020 · $91k · revenue +35%
  • OT
    Oceanographic Teaching Stations Inc
    5× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +156%
  • SC
    Sustainable Conservation
    6× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • MC
    MUSIC CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • SR
    SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +43%
  • MJ
    MAYFIELD JUNIOR SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
2
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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3
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
4
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

—
5
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
6
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

—
7
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
10
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
11
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
12
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Linden Lodge Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
25/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYFIELD SENIOR SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS: $117,000 · OtherMAYFIELD SENIOR SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD JE…PS ARTS: $91,000 · OtherPS ARTSMUSIC CENTER: $50,000 · OtherMUSIC CENTERUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONSANDPIPERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $15,000 · OtherTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · Other+12 more: $51,500 · Other+12 moreRANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureRANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATIONMUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC CENTER FOUNDATIONTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $65,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS…PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $29,000 · Arts & CulturePETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDAT…LAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $18,600 · Arts & CultureLAGUNA ART MUSEUMFILM INDEPENDENT: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOceanographic Teaching Stations Inc: $72,000 · EducationOceanographic Teachi…THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $40,000 · EducationTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATI…MANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $22,000 · EducationMANHATTAN BEACH EDUC…ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL: $15,500 · EducationROBERT LOUIS STEVENS…ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $13,200 · EducationART CENTER COLLEGE O…Teach for America Inc: $10,000 · EducationTeach for America In…CATE SCHOOL: $8,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationSustainable Conservation: $69,500 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $10,000 · HealthLINDEN LODGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $7,500 · HealthLOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL: $20,000 · InternationalFOOD FORWARD INC: $15,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$388,000Arts & Culture$312,600Education$181,700Environment$70,500Health$27,500International$20,000Food & Nutrition$15,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetPS ARTS: $91,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOceanographic Teaching Stations Inc: $72,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSustainable Conservation: $69,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $65,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $40,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $18,600 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANDPIPERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $13,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAS MADRINAS: $9,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCATE SCHOOL: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRADES OF GREEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

California Community …The J Paul Getty TrustThe Annenberg Foundat…Robert a Waller Found…The Ayco Charitable F…The Otis Booth Founda…Wm Keck FoundationThe Ahmanson Foundati…National Philanthropi…The Goldman Sachs Cha…American Endowment Fo…The Rose Hills Founda…
California Community FoundationCA22.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · The Annenberg Foundation · Robert a Waller Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Otis Booth Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hotchkis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hotchkis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hotchkis Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hotchkis Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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