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The Hexberg Family 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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
79
Grants FY2025
79
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
75 to 83
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
16
Total assets, FY2025
$19M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Hexberg Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving77$1.8M8%
FY202479$1.6M8%
FY202378$1.5M4%
FY202278$1.4M5%
FY202175$1.3M4%
FY202075$1.2M8%
FY201883$988k8%
FY201783$852kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.7MInternational$1.1MHealth$932kEnvironment$892kAnimals$767kRecreation & Sports$683kHuman Services$652kFood & Nutrition$455kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MT
MN
NY
MA
NV
OH
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 91 grantees
All grantees of The Hexberg Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Principia Corporation$1,100,00080%
Direct Relief$615,00080%
Ecology Center$486,61081%
Adventure Unlimited$450,00082%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$290,00080%
Crystal Cove Conservancy$251,65082%
Ticonderoga Reviltalization Alliance$250,000411%
Children's Hospital of Orange County$230,00080%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$220,00080%
Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach$188,20081%
Freedom Alliance$180,00080%
California Fire Foundation$175,00080%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$167,00080%
Friends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center$161,00081%
United States Fund for Unicef$146,00080%
Share Our Strength$142,50080%
Challenged Athletes Inc$133,50080%
The Surfrider Foundation$128,63680%
Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc$125,50080%
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy$119,00080%
The Childrens Scholarship Fund$118,50080%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc$112,50070%
Foodbank of Southern California$111,00070%
Heal the Bay$106,50080%
Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara$105,50081%
The Children's Health Fund$99,00070%
Orangewood Foundation$98,50080%
Orange County Rescue Mission Inc$97,00080%
Friendship Shelter Inc$97,00080%
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc$95,00080%
Laguna Food Pantry$92,50080%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$90,50080%
Casa Youth Shelter$89,00081%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$88,50080%
CARE4Paws Inc$86,00081%
Glennwood Housing Foundation Inc$84,00080%
Armed Services YMCA of the USA$83,50080%
Humane World for Animals Inc$80,50080%
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum$75,50080%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$75,00080%
Mammoth Lakes Foundation$74,00083%
Vanguard University Foundation$73,50081%
Willow International Everfree$72,50071%
Equality Now Inc$72,50080%
The Billfish Foundation Inc$72,00071%
Crossroads Ministry Incorporated$72,000815%
Friends of Santa Ana Zoo$72,00081%
Camfed USA Foundation$71,50060%
The Campbell Center$66,00085%
Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation$65,00080%
Shasta Women's Refuge Inc Dba One Safe Place$63,50081%
Red Bucket Equine Rescue$59,00081%
Children's Defense Fund$57,50050%
YWCA of San Gabriel Valley$57,50080%
The Global Hunger Project$51,00050%
Laguna Canyon Foundation$51,00071%
Laguna Beach Ocean Lifeguard Foundation Inc$51,000730%
Laguna Beach Education Foundation$50,00013%
United in Light Inc$49,50087%
Global Grins$43,000594%
Feeding America's Hungry Children$42,50042%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire Inc$40,00060%
Santa Maria Valley Humane Society$27,50031%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$25,00010%
Concordia University Irvine$23,83270%
The California Forest Foundation$23,00033%
Hope Ignites Southern California$22,00013%
Performing Animal Welfare Society$22,00040%
Best Day Foundation$20,00036%
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$16,00020%
Activediscovery Club$15,50042%
Blue Bell Foundation for Cats$15,0002n/a
Promise 4 Paws$14,00052%
Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies$14,00020%
Goodwill Industries of Orange County California$14,00020%
The Salvation Army$13,0002n/a
Laguna College of Art & Design$11,50020%
YWCA of Glendale and Pasadena$11,50020%
Segerstrom Center for the Arts$11,00020%
Global Dental Relief$11,00011%
Hardwood Forest Foundation Inc$10,00026%
Northeast of the Well$10,00021%
Breakthrough T1d$10,00020%
Laguna Radio Inc$10,00023%
University of California Irvine Foundation$10,00020%
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$8,00020%
Coast Film Foundation$6,00020%
Boardriders Foundation$3,8001n/a
Elephant Cooperation$3,00010%
May-Treanor Ohana Foundation$2,5001n/a
Tee It Up for the Troops Inc$2,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Hexberg Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Principia Corporation: $1,100,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDirect Relief: $615,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEcology Center: $486,610 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetAdventure Unlimited: $450,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $290,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCrystal Cove Conservancy: $251,650 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTiconderoga Reviltalization Alliance: $250,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Orange County: $230,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $220,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach: $188,200 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetFreedom Alliance: $180,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCalifornia Fire Foundation: $175,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $167,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center: $161,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $146,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetShare Our Strength: $142,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChallenged Athletes Inc: $133,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Surfrider Foundation: $128,636 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $125,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSanta Catalina Island Conservancy: $119,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Childrens Scholarship Fund: $118,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc: $112,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFoodbank of Southern California: $111,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHeal the Bay: $106,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara: $105,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetThe Children's Health Fund: $99,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetOrangewood Foundation: $98,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $97,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFriendship Shelter Inc: $97,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc: $95,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLaguna Food Pantry: $92,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $90,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Youth Shelter: $89,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $88,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCARE4Paws Inc: $86,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetGlennwood Housing Foundation Inc: $84,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetArmed Services YMCA of the USA: $83,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $80,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPearl Harbor Aviation Museum: $75,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMammoth Lakes Foundation: $74,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetVanguard University Foundation: $73,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetWillow International Everfree: $72,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetEquality Now Inc: $72,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Billfish Foundation Inc: $72,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetCrossroads Ministry Incorporated: $72,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetFriends of Santa Ana Zoo: $72,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCamfed USA Foundation: $71,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 87.

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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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA39.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · Laguna Beach Community Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Hanauer Family Foundation · Roberta Freeman Cox Charitable Foundation · The William Gillespie Foundation · The Stanley E Hanson 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.

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About The Hexberg Family Foundation

How much does The Hexberg Family Foundation give?
The Hexberg Family Foundation reported 79 grants totaling $1,766,017 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 75 and 83 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Hexberg Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), International (12%), Health (11%).
Who are The Hexberg Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Principia Corporation ($1.1M), Direct Relief ($615k), Ecology Center ($487k).
Does The Hexberg Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hexberg Family 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 The Hexberg Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Macgillivray Family Foundation, Laguna Beach Community Foundation.
Where is The Hexberg Family Foundation based?
The Hexberg Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 119 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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