· Private foundation
John H Grace 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
- Under $10k20 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $331k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLOCK FULLERTON'S LOVE OF ORANGE COUNTY KIDS | $100,000 |
| LOVE 2 YEU | $100,000 |
| CAL STATE UNIVERSITY FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| CDA FUTBOL CLUB | $75,000 |
| ST JUDE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TARA'S CHANCE | $40,000 |
| YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY | $28,500 |
| MAKE A SMILE FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| CHP 1199 FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VOLAR SPORT INC | $25,000 |
| CHOC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FULLERTON COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| VITUITY CARES FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| BOY'S & GIRL'S CLUB OF LA HABRA | $15,000 |
| THE CHALLENGE CENTER | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $431k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- CFCDA FUTBOL CLUB8× · 2018–2025 · $575k · revenue +40%
- EMELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY5× · 2018–2022 · $223k · revenue +676%
- NDNEW DIRECTIONS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2023 · $200k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- LMLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +12%
- CSCal State University Fullerton Philanthropic Foundationone grant, 2018 · $25k
- FFFLOCK Fullerton's Love of Orange County Kidsone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
To improve the general well-being and education of the asian, pacific islander and other ethnic communities of san diego county. upac recognizes the diverse ethnic and cultural identities and strengths of these communities and their need…
The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.
The mission of nami orange county is to provide emotional support, education and resources for families, and those affected by mental illness. in collaboration with the entire community, we advocate for a life of quality and dignity, one…
Transforming our community's heartfelt intention into greater impact for good.
The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
The mission of catholic charities of orange county is to provide service to people in need, promote their voice in society, and to call the church and all people to do the same."
Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…
To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oneoc and the most unlike its peers is Volar Sport Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
90 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 90 of the 160 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 CDA FUTBOL CLUB ↗
- Who funds ELK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE 2 YEU ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Volar Sport Inc ↗
- Who funds VITUITY CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FULLERTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FOUNDAT ATTN MICHELLE WULFESTIEG ↗
- Who funds I PADRINI DI ANTONELLOS ↗
- Who funds TARAS CHANCE ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Esperanza Entertainment Boosters ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NOROOZ CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Fullerton Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds IRVINE 2-11 MARINE ADOPTION COMMITEE INC ↗
- Who funds KEIRO SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FULLERTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY ADULT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER DBA MY DAY COUNTS ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · The Crean Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Orange County's United Way · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Argyros Family Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Wilson W Phelps 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 H Grace 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.
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.