· Public charity
Orange County's United Way
To improve lives in orange county by delivering measurable long-term solutions to complex issues in education, financial stability, and housing.
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.
The 35 grants below total $1,656,812 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $20,234,972 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,578,160 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $493k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $414k
- $250k+1 grant · $712k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABRAZAR INC | $711,500 |
| WORKING WARDROBES FOR A NEW START | $165,000 |
| THE CHRYSALIS CENTER | $106,000 |
| GOOD HANDS FOUNDATION | $88,000 |
| ANAHEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $55,450 |
| SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $34,065 |
| ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES | $34,000 |
| ANAHEIM UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $30,000 |
| ONEOC | $26,800 |
| RADIANT FUTURES | $25,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICE | $24,500 |
| LAGUNA WOODS VILLAGE PC CLUB | $24,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $22,000 |
| VIETNAMESE AMERICAN CANCER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $8.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
119 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 93 since wound down; 8 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k 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
- AIAbrazar Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +54%
- MHMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +631%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $970k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- O(OTHERS (PASS-THRU 501C(3) & LESS THAN 5000)one grant, 2021 · $40M
- SPSACRED PATH INDIGENOUS WELLNESS CENTERone grant, 2024 · $428k · revenue 0%
- SSSpecial Service for Groups Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $48k · revenue +56%
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.
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, Inc. is a family of community health centers whose mission is to be the medical home for our patients by providing personalized, quality health care services in a culturally accessible manner.
The principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.
Our mission is to train people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities for success in life and work. We provide life empowering services to more than 450 adults with disabilities including employment, education, housing,…
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."
The organization provides health care and other related services to medically underserved populations in Los Angeles County.
To improve personal and community health and wellness within the african community by increasing the availability of culturally relevant physical and mental health services.
To support local control and promote good governance & policy making among orange county leaders.
Open paths counseling center's mission is to meet the evolving mental health needs of the community through quality counseling for individuals and families at affordable fees; free therapy programs for at-risk children and youth in local…
To promote health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.
To provide access to affordable quality medical, dental, behavioral, and other health care services to all residents of southern california communities, especially vulnerable populations.
The organization was formed to provide a venue in which healthcare providers and agencies can share patient information to improve the overall quality of patient care.
East valley community health center's mission is to provide access to excellent health care while engaging and empowering our patients, employees and partners to improve their well-being and health of our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward and the most unlike its peers is Fieldstone Leadership Network. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% 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.
170 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. 170 of the 204 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Abrazar Inc ↗
- Who funds People For Irvine Community Health ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ONEOC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VITAL ACCESS CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOMS ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SACRED PATH INDIGENOUS WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY ↗
- Who funds SHANTI ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Project Hope Alliance ↗
- Who funds Illumination Institute ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF OC COMMUNITY CLINICS ↗
- Who funds SANTA ANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT PUBLIC FACILITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GOOD HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALIANZA TRANSLATINX ↗
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 · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · O L Halsell Foundation · Charitable Ventures of Orange County · Oneoc · St Joseph Health System Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
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 Orange County's United Way 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.