· Private foundation
John C Hench 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $435k
- $250k+2 grants · $896k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUE OF ARTS | $596,070 |
| USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS | $300,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH MEDICAL FOUNDA | $200,000 |
| VERDUGO HILLS CHAPTER SWEET ADELINE | $100,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $85,000 |
| INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO | $50,000 |
| RYMAN ARTS | $40,000 |
| PROFESSIONAL CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSO | $25,000 |
| 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY | $25,000 |
| SOUTH PASADENA TOURNAMENT OF ROSES | $20,000 |
| DOWNTOWN REPERTORY THEATOR | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TITHE INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO INC7× · 2019–2025 · $190k · revenue +114%
- 4P4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +2%
- CRCRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $130k · revenue +267%
Funded once
- LCLA COUNTY HIGH SCHOOOL FOR ART FOUNone grant, 2023 · $200k
- LFLACHSA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k
- HRHUNTINGTON RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Calarts is a multidisciplinary community of artists. our ongoing educational endeavor is grounded in openness, experimentation, critical engagement, and creative freedom. through artistic practice, we transform ourselves, each other, and…
The colburn school's founding principle of "access to excellence" provides a performance-centered education with unparalleled faculty and facilities for all levels of development, instills the joy and discipline of the performing arts,…
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…
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…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
Maranatha high school is a christ-centered, evangelical college preparatory school that celebrates the whole student by equipping hearts and minds to reflect god's glory through academics, as well as the arts, athletics, and service. we…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Tk-12 charter public school focused on educational equity and success for all students with a priority on tradionally underserved populations.
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.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The orchestra pursues its mission, "to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences which exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation," through the blend of traditional…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pasadena Child Development Associates Inc doing business as Pcda and the most unlike its peers is Sweet Adelines International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PASADENA DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO INC ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE RYMAN-CARROLL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN REPERTORY THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Child Development Associates Inc doing business as PCDA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PASADENA TOURNAMENT OF ROSES ASSOC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts · Pasadena Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization John C Hench Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.