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Human Options Inc

Human Options ignites social change by educating Orange County to recognize relationship violence as an issue that threatens everyone, advocating for those affected by abuse, extending a safe place for victims, and empowering survivors on their journey of healing.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$802k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Housing & Shelter$3.5MHuman Services$2.0MCrime & Legal$1.4MYouth Development$136kEmployment$98k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $1,111,425, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,485,456 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $374,031 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $89k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $221k
  • $250k+1 grant · $802k
$50,186
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wiseplace$801,554
All 4 Kids (Children's Bureau)$91,517
Santa Ana Police Department$79,270
Families Forward$50,186
Cambodian Family$43,180
Abrazar$34,718
Girls Incorporated of OC$11,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Children's Bureau: $130k → 14%Children's Bureau: $121k → 14%Children's Bureau: $121k → 14%Child Guidance Center: $70k → 10%Children's Bureau: $118k → 14%Child Guidance Center: $69k → 10%All 4 Kids (Children's Bureau): $92k → 14%Children's Bureau: $55k → 14%Child Guidance Center: $69k → 10%Children's Bureau: $55k → 14%Children's Bureau: $53k → 14%Child Guidance Center: $68k → 10%Children's Bureau: $51k → 14%Cambodian Family: $45k → 10%Cambodian Family: $45k → 10%Cambodian Family: $43k → 10%Cambodian Family: $40k → 10%Cambodian Family: $40k → 10%Cambodian Family: $39k → 10%Cambodian Family: $30k → 10%Cambodian Family: $30k → 10%Cambodian Family: $30k → 10%Wiseplace: $1.1M → 10%Wiseplace: $802k → 10%Wiseplace: $422k → 10%Laura's House: $76k → 10%Laura's House: $71k → 10%Laura's House: $38k → 10%Abrazar: $36k → 10%Abrazar: $35k → 10%Abrazer: $33k → 10%Abrazar: $27k → 10%Abrazar: $26k → 10%Abrazar: $26k → 10%Abrazar: $25k → 10%Abrazar: $23k → 10%Abrazar: $22k → 10%Radiant Futures: $57k → 10%Women's Transitional Housing Center: $43k → 10%Radiant Futures: $27k → 10%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 14 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
0

Total granted

$7.2M
$0

Still filing today

93%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • W
    WISEPLACE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +30% · 25% of their budget
  • FF
    FAMILIES FORWARD
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +148%
  • AF
    ALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $796k · revenue +71%

Funded once

    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
    Laurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor

    The mission of Laurel House (dba Hope Harbor) is providing a home for teens in crisis, transforming lives, and strengthening families. Laurel House has the only long-term youth shelters in Orange County, CA for runaway, homeless and…

    —
    2
    Mariposa Women and Family Center

    The mission of mariposa women and family center is to help women and families make positive changes in their lives.

    Health
    3
    Interval House

    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…

    Human Services
    4
    Casa de Esperanza

    Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

    Human Services
    5
    Womenspace

    Our mission is to protect, shelter, and empower survivors of domestic violence - offering safety, support, and resources with compassion and trauma-informed care.

    Human Services
    6
    Center for Community Solutions

    The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

    Health
    7
    Ark Homes Foster Family Agency

    Ark Homes Foster Family Agency is committed to creating a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment for children by matching each child's needs with an appropriate family-based placement and services that promote stability, healing, and…

    Human Services
    8
    Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law

    Harriett buhai center for family law is a non-profit corporation organized in 1984 that ensures meaningful access to justice in the family law system by providing free legal services, education, and advocacy for low-income residents of los…

    Crime & Legal
    9
    Thomas House Temporary Shelter

    To provide at-risk and unhoused families-with-children a safe and supportive environment where they are empowered to achieve independence and self-sufficiency.

    —
    10
    Family Promise of Orange County

    To provide emergency shelter, hospitality, and services to homeless families, helping to eliminate their homelessness and place each family in a home of their own in about two months.

    Human Services
    11
    Court Appointed Special Advocate of Orange County

    Court Appointed Special Advocates of Orange County provides a powerful voice and a meaningful connection for children who have experienced abuse, neglect and abandoment.

    Civil Rights
    12
    Waymakers

    Waymakers builds safer communities by helping individuals make their way through conflict and crisis to a place of strength and stability. we redirect youthful offenders, stabilize children dealing with mental health concerns, counsel…

    Crime & Legal
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; the most unlike its peers is Women Helping Women. 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

    13 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. 13 of the 14 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.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    13/13
    Grantees still filing
    10/13
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    WISEPLACE: $2,295,603 · Human ServicesWISEPLACEALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION: $795,986 · Human ServicesALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATIONTHE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $342,025 · Human ServicesTHE CAMBODIAN FAMILYCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $275,870 · Human ServicesCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INCAbrazar Inc: $252,370 · Human ServicesAbrazar IncLAURA'S HOUSE: $185,020 · Human Services+1 more: $126,642 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FORWARD: $1,253,176 · OtherFAMILIES FORWARDRaise Foundation: $682,801 · OtherRaise FoundationSanta Ana Police Department: $437,622 · OtherSanta Ana Police DepartmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY: $136,029 · OtherWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $98,378 · OtherCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL: $248,790 · Crime & LegalOLIVE CREST: $26,000 · Health
    Human Services$4,273,516Other$2,608,006Crime & Legal$248,790Health$26,000

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

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWISEPLACE: $2,295,603 over 3y, 25% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $1,253,176 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION: $795,986 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetRaise Foundation: $682,801 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetTHE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $342,025 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $275,870 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAbrazar Inc: $252,370 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL: $248,790 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE: $185,020 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY: $136,029 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetWOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES: $126,642 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $98,378 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $26,000 over 3y, 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.

    • Who funds WISEPLACE ↗
    • Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
    • Who funds ALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION ↗
    • Who funds Raise Foundation ↗
    • Who funds THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY ↗
    • Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
    • Who funds Abrazar Inc ↗
    • Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL ↗
    • Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
    • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
    • Who funds WOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES ↗
    • Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
    • Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗

    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.

    Orange County Communi…Orange County's Unite…Edwards Lifesciences …O L Halsell FoundationCalifornia Community …Hoag Memorial Hospita…OneocInland Empire Communi…Sisters of St Joseph …Weingart FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …
    Orange County Community FoundationCA21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Orange County's United Way · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · California Community Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Oneoc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving 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 Human Options Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Human Options Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
      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.

      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 14 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 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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