· Private foundation
The Crean 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k47 grants · $180k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $645k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Orangewood Foundation - Samueli Aca | $500,000 |
| ARMY AND NAVY ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| Children's Bureau | $250,000 |
| Anaheim Family YMCA | $215,000 |
| Olive Crest | $205,000 |
| HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| Concordia University Foundation | $200,000 |
| Children's Hospital of OC Foundatio | $117,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Friends of Santa Ana Zoo | $100,000 |
| Crean Lutheran High School | $65,000 |
| The Priority Center | $50,000 |
| NEW VISTA SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| Big BrothersBig Sisters | $35,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.
117 repeat relationships: 97 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $525k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +62%
- HHHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +300%
- AAARMY AND NAVY ACADEMY CARLSBAD CALIFORNIA8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +38%
Funded once
- WSWOMEN'S STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -74% · 35% of their budget
- TTThe Teen Project Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +102%
- PMPat McCormick Educational Foundatioone grant, 2017 · $37k
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.
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.
Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…
Irvine adult day health services, together with families and the community, promotes a lifestyle of health, independence and active living for disabled and older adults.
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
New alternatives, inc. is committed to providing abused and negelected youth with hope and opportunities through a comprehensive array of social, residential and mental health services that we provide in san diego and orange county.
Waymakers builds safer communities by helping individuals make their way through conflict and crisis to a place of strength and stability. we redirect youthful offenders, stabilize children dealing with mental health concerns, counsel…
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The mission of homeless intervention services of orange county is to provide support and assistance to the underprivileged and unhoused to improve their quality of life and to help them regain stability and hope.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Our mission is to serve foster youth, families and our community through intensive clinical evidence-based treatment services, along with personalized and compassionate care. we provide mental health treatment that changes lives through a…
The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
How this is measured
97 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. 97 of the 131 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANA ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMY AND NAVY ACADEMY CARLSBAD CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SANTA ANA ZOO ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds SAMUELI ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE MASTER ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds The Teen Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE ↗
- Who funds RV-MH HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAGE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FACES ↗
- Who funds WORLD FIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Prentice School ↗
- Who funds California Youth Services ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SENIORSERV INC ↗
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 · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · The Devto Support Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · Orange County's United Way · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Oneoc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Crean Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Crean Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- International Game Fish Association Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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