· Private foundation
The Jeanette Bertea Hennings 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of The Jeanette Bertea Hennings Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Orange County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $983,000 |
| OREGON COAST AQUARIUM | $250,000 |
| STUDIOS IN THE PARK | $10,000 |
| ARAPAHOE RESCUE PATROL | $10,000 |
| AUSA - ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY | $5,000 |
| CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS | $5,000 |
| ESCUELA DE GUADALUPE | $5,000 |
| VETRANS LEGAL INST | $3,000 |
| PATRIOTS AND PAWS | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC3× · 2018–2024 · $310k · revenue +156%- CWCOLORADO WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +85%
- HHHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +237%
Funded once
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $101k · revenue +38%
- SOSTUDIOS ON THE PARK INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +2%
- SRSCRIPPS RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $69k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Amvets is a veterans service organization whose members, having served or now serving in the u.s. armed forces, are united to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states; to safeguard the principles of freedom, liberty and…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
To support a full range of issues affecting vietnam veterans, as well as, all veterans. vva is the only congressionaly chartered organization exclusively dedicated to vietnam-era veterans and their families.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Preserve and protect earned benefits for our uniformed services, veterans, their families, and surviving spouses through advocacy, leadership, education and service. provide first-class service to our members. we are the leading voice on…
To make a lasting impact on veterans and their families by providing professional support services that empower and equip them for a secure future.
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ed Tandy Mcglasson Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 44 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds STUDIOS ON THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF BENTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ARAPAHOE RESCUE PATROL INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA STATE GUARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS LEGAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL DBA WORLDDE ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED RECOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BENTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE TRINITYCARE HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds The American Legion ↗
- Who funds DENVER BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS CORP ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFFS ADVISORY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS AND PAWS ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ED TANDY MCGLASSON MINISTRIES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Whitecross Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Jeanette Bertea Hennings 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.
- The Arc of Benton County Inc — 26% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.
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