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The Higgins Family Charitable 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.

$620k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$435k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Health$3.7MAnimals$30kHuman Services$25kRecreation & Sports$20kFood & Nutrition$20kReligion$17kHousing & Shelter$15k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $435k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION$435,000
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$100,000
SPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA$35,000
MOMENTUM AGENCIES$25,000
ICAN CALIFORNIA ABILITIES NETWORK$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ICAN CALIFORNIA ABILITIES NETWORK: $25k → 14%ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 8 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$3.7M
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+111%

Still filing today

63%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +27%
  • AR
    ANIMAL RESCUE MISSION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +14%
  • AC
    Angel City Alliance
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • RB
    REDONDO BEACH FIRST UNITED METHODIST
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • LA
    Los Angeles Room & Boardgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +111%
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $12k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group

To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…

2
Los Angeles Accessible Apartments C
3
Disability Rights California

Drc works in partnership with disabled people to defend rights, advance opportunities, grow power, and expand public support for disability justice in california and beyond.

Civil Rights
4
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
5
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
6
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

7
The California Channel

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…

8
South Central Los Angeles Regional Center for Dev Disabled Persons Inc

South central los angeles regional center, (sclarc), believes special needs deserve special attention. we are committed to the provision of culturally sensitive services which enhance the inherent strengths of the family and enable…

Human Services
9
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

10
Lupus La Co Emerge

Lupus la promotes lupus research, awareness, and education, and serves the needs of people with lupus and their families in los angeles county

Health
11
California Apartment Association

The organization's mission is to represent the ethical members of the rental housing industry in all aspects of government affairs within the state of california, and to provide information, products and services which contribute to the…

12
Alpha Treatment Centers

Alpha treatment centers is a california non-profit corporation set up for the general purpose of the prevention of cruelty to children, charitable, and/or educational purposes.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Angel City Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION — $1,940,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION+6 more — $147,000 · Other+6 moreChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $1,065,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los AngelesBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $458,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCSPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $120,000 · HealthSPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA+1 more — $25,000 · HealthICAN CALIFORNIA ABILITIES NETWORK — $25,000 · Human ServicesAngel City Alliance — $20,000 · Human ServicesANIMAL RESCUE MISSION — $20,000 · AnimalsLos Angeles Room & Board — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,087,000Health$1,668,000Human Services$45,000Animals$20,000Housing & Shelter$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $1,065,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $458,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $120,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOMENTUM AGENCIES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE MISSION — $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAngel City Alliance — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLos Angeles Room & Board — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREAL GOOD RESCUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budget
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.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC10.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Higgins Family Charitable Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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