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The Higgins Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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.

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
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.

04Its field

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.

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…

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2
Los Angeles Accessible Apartments C
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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Angel City Alliance; 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 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. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC10.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Higgins Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Higgins Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 15 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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