California · Private foundation
O L Halsell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 90
- Grants FY2025
- 117
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $220,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 103 to 120
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $52M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations O L Halsell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k 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 | 85 | $2.5M | 7% |
| FY2024 | 117 | $2.3M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 112 | $2.2M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 115 | $2.2M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 120 | $2.2M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 111 | $2.1M | 37% |
| FY2019 | 107 | $2.1M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 103 | $2.1M | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Salvation Army | $610,000 | 9 | n/a |
| The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement | $595,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Olive Crest | $479,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Orange Coast | $377,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Alzheimer's Orange County | $326,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Eddie Nash Foundation | $320,000 | 8 | 66% |
| Waymakers | $315,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Age Well Senior Services Inc | $310,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Kidsingers | $305,000 | 9 | 20% |
| Alzheimer's Family Services Center | $296,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 163 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 98 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
O L Halsell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 158 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · The Devto Support Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Orange County's United Way · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust · Oneoc · Argyros Family Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · The Crean Foundation
How this is measured
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About O L Halsell Foundation
- How much does O L Halsell Foundation give?
- O L Halsell Foundation reported 90 grants totaling $2,552,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 103 and 120 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does O L Halsell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (25%), Human Services (21%), Health (15%).
- Who are O L Halsell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($610k), The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement ($595k), Olive Crest ($479k).
- Does O L Halsell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does O L Halsell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as O L Halsell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian.
- Where is O L Halsell Foundation based?
- O L Halsell Foundation is based in CA.
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