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.

The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation

The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$877k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$9.7MHuman Services$9.6MEducation$5.7MSocial Science$3.6MYouth Development$3.1MHealth$3.0MCommunity Improvement$2.3MEmployment$1.7MOther$0

02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k10 grants · $223k
$50k–250k21 grants · $2.2M
$250k+9 grants · $3.9M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$119M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC & DANCE	$876,883
ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC & DANCE	$607,378
THE MOLINA FOUNDATION	$505,942
CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION	$350,000
OLIVE CREST	$333,333
YMCA OF LA (DOWNEY)	$333,333
SAMUELI ACADEMY	$333,333
HIGH SCHOOL INC	$333,333
SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL	$250,000
PASADENA JEWISH TEMPLE & CENTER	$249,012
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ORANGE COUNTY & INLAND EMPIRE	$200,000
SCHOLARSHIP PREP COMMUNITY FOUNDATIN	$200,000
LAND OF THE FREE	$150,000
VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES	$147,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB LONG BEACH	$107,838

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$48M · 88 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

88 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 61 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$48M

$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+62%

Still filing today

58%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

ES
EL SOL SCIENCE AND ARTS ACADEMY OF SANTA ANA
5× · 2017–2022 · $1.8M · revenue +77%
OC
ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
5× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +52%
OC
OLIVE CREST
4× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +72%

Funded once

CH
CHILDRENS HOSITAL OF LOS ANGELES
one grant, 2017 · $166k
PS
Pacific Symphonygraduated
one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +102%
LB
LONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (SAFE SURRENDER)
one grant, 2021 · $100k

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.

Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative Charter School

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…

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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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Los Angeles Conservation Corps

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.

Employment

La's Best

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).

Education

The California Education Partners

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,…

Education

Child Educational Center

The child educational center's mission is to ignite joy, curiosity and compassion through innovative children's programs for all.

Human Services

California Children's Academy

Cca is committed to preparing young children to be global citizens who are developmentally well-rounded, emotionally literate, and environmentally conscious.

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California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit

For the Children

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,…

Recreation & Sports

The Center for Early Education

The center for early education, a socio-economically and culturally diverse independent school for children, toddlers through grade six, strives to graduate students who are joyful, resilient, lifelong learners. the center embraces a…

Education

Bridges Charter School

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,…

Education

Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences

Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest; 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.

04the grantee network

85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 160 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

84/85

Grantees still filing

58/85

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$22,071,615Arts & Culture$11,252,989Education$5,160,332Social Science$4,101,144Health$3,081,380Youth Development$2,801,758Human Services$2,702,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA57.9× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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