California · Private foundation
The Larry and Helen Hoag 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.
- $6.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $876,883
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 63
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $119M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $6.3M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $6.2M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $5.9M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $6.4M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $6.1M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $3.7M | 56% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $5.2M | 41% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $5.6M | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange County Music and Dance Inc | $10,092,991 | 9 | 87% |
| The Molina Foundation | $4,101,144 | 9 | 26% |
| El Sol Science and Arts Academy of Santa Ana | $1,776,666 | 5 | 6% |
| Orange County School of the Arts | $1,075,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Special Olympics Southern California Inc | $1,036,130 | 7 | 2% |
| Olive Crest | $1,009,999 | 4 | 0% |
| Mind Education | $905,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Kupu | $865,568 | 4 | 4% |
| Pretend City the Children's Museum of Orange County | $864,998 | 8 | 4% |
| Children Today Inc | $830,000 | 9 | 20% |
Show all 88 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation with peer funders
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About The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation
- How much does The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation give?
- The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $6,324,268 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Human Services (21%), Education (13%).
- Who are The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Orange County Music and Dance Inc ($10M), The Molina Foundation ($4.1M), El Sol Science and Arts Academy of Santa Ana ($1.8M).
- Does The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Larry and Helen Hoag 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 Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Samueli Foundation, The Devto Support Foundation.
- Where is The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation based?
- The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation is based in CA.
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