California · Private foundation
Returning Home 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.
- $194k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- 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 Returning Home Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 | 9 | $194k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $269k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $170k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $179k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $136k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $269k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $69k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $40k | 25% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orangewood Foundation | $300,750 | 6 | 1% |
| People For Irvine Community Health | $136,524 | 5 | 4% |
| Project Kinship | $68,031 | 8 | 9% |
| Wiseplace | $25,250 | 2 | 1% |
| Family Safety Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 9% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Office of Restorative Justice | $17,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Voice of Orange CountyOrg | $16,758 | 6 | 1% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates | $11,050 | 2 | 1% |
| Friendship Shelter Inc | $7,930 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orangewood Foundation | $300,750 | 6 | 1% |
| People For Irvine Community Health | $136,524 | 5 | 4% |
| Project Kinship | $68,031 | 8 | 9% |
| Wiseplace | $25,250 | 2 | 1% |
| Family Safety Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 9% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Office of Restorative Justice | $17,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Voice of Orange CountyOrg | $16,758 | 6 | 1% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates | $11,050 | 2 | 1% |
| Friendship Shelter Inc | $7,930 | 3 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Facts Education Fund | $2,400 | 3 | n/a |
| Charitable Ventures of Orange County | $2,033 | 1 | 0% |
| The Sentencing Project | $1,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Amnesty International of the USA Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Laguna Food Pantry | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fcl Education Fund | $750 | 2 | 1% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($732k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Returning Home Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · O L Halsell Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Returning Home Foundation
- How much does Returning Home Foundation give?
- Returning Home Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $194,193 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Returning Home Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Youth Development (22%), Crime & Legal (13%).
- Who are Returning Home Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Orangewood Foundation ($301k), People For Irvine Community Health ($137k), Project Kinship ($68k).
- Does Returning Home Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Returning Home 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 Returning Home Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, O L Halsell Foundation, Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation.
- Where is Returning Home Foundation based?
- Returning Home Foundation is based in CA.
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