· Private foundation
The Larry and Helen Hoag 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 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $317k
- $50k–250k28 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC & DANCE | $1,432,253 |
| THE MOLINA FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| YMCA OF LA (DOWNEY) | $333,333 |
| OLIVE CREST | $333,333 |
| SAMUELI ACADEMY | $333,333 |
| HIGH SCHOOL INC | $333,333 |
| WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC | $281,436 |
| SCHOLARSHIP PREP COMMUNITY FOUNDATIN | $240,000 |
| PRETEND CITYTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY | $191,666 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ORANGE COUNTY & INLAND EMPIRE | $150,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $150,000 |
| HART COMMUNITY HOME INC | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| AUTISM PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
86 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 6 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $823k 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
- TMTHE MOLINA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +43% · 26% of their budget
- ESEL SOL SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY OF SANTA ANA5× · 2017–2022 · $1.8M · revenue +77%
- OCORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +52%
Funded once
- CHCHILDRENS HOSITAL OF LOS ANGELESone grant, 2017 · $166k
- PSPacific Symphonygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +102%
- LBLONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (SAFE SURRENDER)one grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
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…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…
The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
To transform lives and communities by providing an array of programs, all directed toward changing the lives of children in the foster care system aimed to prevent academic failure, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, sex trafficking,…
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).
Our mission is to educate the whole child using a combination of innovative curriculum and instruction along with social/emotional education embedded in the program. students will be enabled to reach their innate intellectual, creative,…
Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 148 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 MUSIC AND DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EL SOL SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY OF SANTA ANA ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds MIND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds KUPU ↗
- Who funds PRETEND CITY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Children Today Inc ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds HART COMMUNITY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds STEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds ID8 ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds ALGALITA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds SAMUELI ACADEMY ↗
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 · Samueli Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Oneoc · The Annenberg Foundation
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 Larry and Helen Hoag 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.
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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