· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| DOWNTOWN REPERTORY THEATOR | $20,000 |
| SOUTH PASADENA TOURNAMENT OF ROSES | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TITHE INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO INC7× · 2019–2025 · $190k · revenue +114%
- 4P4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +2%
- CACHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2022 · $130k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- LCLA COUNTY HIGH SCHOOOL FOR ART FOUNone grant, 2023 · $200k
- LFLACHSA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k
- HRHUNTINGTON RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE RYMAN-CARROLL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN REPERTORY THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Child Development Associates Inc doing business as PCDA ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John C Hench Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John C Hench Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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