California · 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.
- $820k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations John H Grace Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 44 | $815k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $882k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $810k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $685k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $622k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $607k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $755k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $545k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cda Futbol Club | $575,000 | 8 | 5% |
| St Jude Memorial Foundation | $425,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Elk Mountain Academy | $222,500 | 5 | 4% |
| New Directions Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 6 | 13% |
| O Kau Kakou | $160,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Love 2 Yeu | $145,000 | 3 | 40% |
| Make a Smile Foundation Inc | $133,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Orange County | $116,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Choc Foundation | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Therapy Center Inc Dba Challenge Center | $85,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 100 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John H Grace Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 84 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About John H Grace Foundation
- How much does John H Grace Foundation give?
- John H Grace Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $820,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John H Grace Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (16%), Youth Development (16%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
- Who are John H Grace Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cda Futbol Club ($575k), St Jude Memorial Foundation ($425k), Elk Mountain Academy ($223k).
- Does John H Grace Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John H Grace 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 H Grace Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, O L Halsell Foundation, The Crean Foundation.
- Where is John H Grace Foundation based?
- John H Grace Foundation is based in CA.
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