· Private foundation
John W Hancock 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONG BEACH SYMPHONY | $30,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,640 |
| AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC | $5,000 |
| RED BUCKET EQUINE RESCUE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN TODAY | $2,500 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| MEMORIAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ALGALITA MARINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $500 |
| WILDERNESS SOCIETY THE | $310 |
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 (FY17–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +27% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- AOAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +50%
- CTChildren Today Inc4× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +26%
- TSTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- USUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MAMUSICA ANGELICAone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Beach Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Red Bucket Equine Rescue. 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 44 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 108 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 AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RED BUCKET EQUINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Children Today Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALGALITA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICA ANGELICA ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Leadership Long Beach ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
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: Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · Bess J Hodges Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · Keesal Young & Logan Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · Temple Family Charitable Foundation · The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation · Air Products Foundation · The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · John Apostle & Helen Apostle 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 W Hancock 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.
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