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John Apostle & Helen Apostle Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 17
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$41M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations John Apostle & Helen Apostle Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$1.7M24%
FY202314$1.7M7%
FY202217$2.0M24%
FY202114$1.8M29%
FY202013$1.3Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.8MHuman Services$2.6MHealth$860kHousing & Shelter$784kPhilanthropy$725kYouth Development$660kReligion$600kArts & Culture$429kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Assistance League of Long Beach$840,00057%
Long Beach Rescue Mission$784,35054%
Trinity Youth Services$650,00051%
Long Beach Day Nursery$606,39935%
Memorial Medical Center Foundation$600,00042%
Operation Jump Start$580,000518%
Long Beach State Foundation$550,00031%
Long Beach Public Library Foundation$500,000511%
Ahepa Scholarship Foundation Inc$430,0005n/a
Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation$350,00045%
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All grantees of John Apostle & Helen Apostle Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Assistance League of Long Beach$840,00057%
Long Beach Rescue Mission$784,35054%
Trinity Youth Services$650,00051%
Long Beach Day Nursery$606,39935%
Memorial Medical Center Foundation$600,00042%
Operation Jump Start$580,000518%
Long Beach State Foundation$550,00031%
Long Beach Public Library Foundation$500,000511%
Ahepa Scholarship Foundation Inc$430,0005n/a
Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation$350,00045%
Long Beach Education Foundation$275,000213%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$100,00040%
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church$100,0001n/a
Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today$80,00035%
The National Hellenic Society Inc$79,00016%
Leadership Long Beach$40,000114%
Ground Education$20,00012%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John Apostle & Helen Apostle Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAssistance League of Long Beach: $840,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetLong Beach Rescue Mission: $784,350 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetTrinity Youth Services: $650,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLong Beach Day Nursery: $606,399 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetMemorial Medical Center Foundation: $600,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetOperation Jump Start: $580,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetLong Beach State Foundation: $550,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLong Beach Public Library Foundation: $500,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetLong Beach Museum of Art Foundation: $350,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetLong Beach Education Foundation: $275,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLong Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today: $80,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetThe National Hellenic Society Inc: $79,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetLeadership Long Beach: $40,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetGround Education: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Bess J Hodges FoundationCA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bess J Hodges Foundation · Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · California Community Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation · Keesal Young & Logan Charitable Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Long Beach Rotary Charitable Found · Temple Family Charitable Foundation · John W Hancock 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.

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About John Apostle & Helen Apostle Foundation

How much does John Apostle & Helen Apostle Foundation give?
John Apostle & Helen Apostle Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $1,820,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does John Apostle & Helen Apostle Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Human Services (26%), Health (9%).
Who are John Apostle & Helen Apostle Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Assistance League of Long Beach ($840k), Long Beach Rescue Mission ($784k), Trinity Youth Services ($650k).
Does John Apostle & Helen Apostle Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John Apostle & Helen Apostle Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as John Apostle & Helen Apostle Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bess J Hodges Foundation, Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation, The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation.
Where is John Apostle & Helen Apostle Foundation based?
John Apostle & Helen Apostle Foundation is based in CA.

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 28 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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