How much does John W Hancock Foundation give?

John W Hancock Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $70,010 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does John W Hancock Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Health (21%), Environment (12%).

Who are John W Hancock Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation ($38k), Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation ($23k), Red Bucket Equine Rescue ($18k).

Does John W Hancock Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does John W Hancock 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 W Hancock Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation, Long Beach Community Foundation, Bess J Hodges Foundation.

Where is John W Hancock Foundation based?

John W Hancock Foundation is based in CA.

John W Hancock Foundation

John W Hancock Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$70k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$31k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$112kHealth$91kEnvironment$52kEducation$31kHuman Services$19kAnimals$18kCommunity Improvement$12kHousing & Shelter$12kOther$0

02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k33 grants · $40k
$10k–50k1 grant · $31k

$250

Median grant

States reached

$357k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LONG BEACH SYMPHONY	$30,500
Individual grant recipient	$7,640
RED BUCKET EQUINE RESCUE	$5,000
CITY OF HOPE	$5,000
AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
CHILDREN TODAY	$2,500
ALGALITA MARINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$1,000
ALS ASSOCIATION	$1,000
RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION	$1,000
MEMORIAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION	$1,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED INC	$500
WILDERNESS SOCIETY THE	$310

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$382k · 56 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$382k

$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+9%

Still filing today

57%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

AO
AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +50%
CT
Children Today Inc
4× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +26%
TS
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +81%

Funded once

US
UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $10k
MA
MUSICA ANGELICA
one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +7%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $2k

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.

04Its field

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment

Environmental Defense Center

The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.

Crime & Legal

Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech

National Audubon Society Inc

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).

Environment

Nature Collective

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…

Environment

Lowell Observatory

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…

Science & Tech

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

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)

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Beach Community Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 108 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/61

Grantees still filing

47/61

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$289,000Animals$55,350Arts & Culture$27,480Health$15,850Human Services$15,525Philanthropy$12,150Environment$6,631

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.

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.

Earl B & Loraine H Miller FoundationCA34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John W Hancock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John W Hancock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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