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Howard & Helen House Family Foundation at a glance

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Howard & Helen House Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$145k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$25k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$112kAnimals$110kEducation$80kArts & Culture$57kInternational$55kEnvironment$30kScience & Tech$26kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
$3,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER$25,000
Individual grant recipient$22,500
YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION I$11,000
EDISON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$8,000
HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$7,000
UCI GAVIN HERBERT EYE INSTITUTE$6,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$6,000
RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL-SAN DIEGO$4,250
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM$4,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONS$4,000
PENNSTATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT$4,000
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE$4,000
EYE SURGEONS INTERNATIONAL$4,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$4,000
MERCY CHEFS$4,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%MERCY CHEFS: $4k → 20%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
CO
VA
AR
NC
DC
HI
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Howard & Helen House Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Howard & Helen House Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$289k · 19 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
26

Total granted

$289k
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-7%

Still filing today

68%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
HealthEducationInternationalAnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • GL
    GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $53k · revenue +19%
  • HE
    HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +89%
  • OC
    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue -7%
  • HI
    HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +36%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
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
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
2
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
3
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
4
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
5
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
6
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
9
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.

—
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
12
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
21/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USC - SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $45,000 · OtherUSC - SCHOOL OF MEDICINEROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER: $25,000 · OtherROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION I: $17,000 · OtherYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION IIndividual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONS: $8,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · Other+26 more: $62,115 · Other+26 moreGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $53,000 · AnimalsGREATER LOS ANGELES Z…LOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $45,000 · AnimalsLOS ANGELES SOCIETY F…+2 more: $1,500 · AnimalsOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $18,500 · EducationOCCIDENTAL CO…THE NEW CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS: $14,000 · EducationTHE NEW CENTE…PALISADES HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $11,000 · EducationPALISADES HIG…VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES: $9,500 · EducationVILLA ESPERAN…EDISON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EducationEDISON HIGH S…+1 more: $50 · EducationHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNT…FILMSCENE: $14,000 · Arts & CultureFILMSCENEMicrobeTV Inc: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO: $13,250 · HealthRADY CHILD…THE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $13,000 · HealthTHE HOUSE …PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…Eye Surgeons International: $4,000 · HealthEye Surgeo…Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $2,500 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $2,500 · HealthPARASITES WITHOUT BORDERS INC: $2,500 · Health+3 more: $2,500 · HealthHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,000 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $2,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,000 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON: $11,000 · EnvironmentPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $10,500 · Environment350ORG: $1,500 · Environment
Other$202,615Animals$99,500Education$61,050Arts & Culture$57,000Health$50,250International$36,500Environment$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $53,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS: $14,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFILMSCENE: $14,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO: $13,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPALISADES HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $11,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES: $9,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUT OF THE COLD CENTRE COUNTY INC: $6,600 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARASITES WITHOUT BORDERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWOMENS HEALTH PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMicrobeTV Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOHENY EYE INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE COUNTY PAWS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALI QUARTERBACK CLUB: $50 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Patron Saints Fou…The Otis Booth Founda…Wm Keck FoundationPasadena Community Fo…California Community …AbbVie FoundationNational Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…
The Patron Saints FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Patron Saints Foundation · The Otis Booth Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 Howard & Helen House Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard & Helen House Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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

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How do I get to Howard & Helen House Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Howard & Helen House Family 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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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