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The Larry L Hillblom Foundation Inc

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.

$6.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$20MScience & Tech$3.8MHealth$3.6MArts & Culture$884kSocial Science$600kCommunity Improvement$411kReligion$322kHuman Services$221kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $491k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $5.2M
$24,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$153M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$1,860,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO$1,545,000
SALK INSTITUTE$600,000
BUCK INSTITUTE$545,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$370,000
SPIRIT HORSE CONNECTIONS$277,802
SRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE$190,000
GLADSTONE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$170,000
CITY OF HOPE$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$140,000
SONOMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$95,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE$75,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SONOMA COUNTY$70,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$70,000
ABOUT-FACE$70,000
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 (FY20–24, $501k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPIRIT HORSE CONNECTIONS: $278k → 18%MADERA COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%MADERA COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%ABOUT FACE MEDIA LITERACY: $20k → 10%ABOUT FACE MEDIA LITERACY: $5k → 10%ABOUT FACE MEDIA LITERACY: $5k → 10%CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ADAPTIVE SPORTS CENTER: $5k → 19%ABOUT-FACE: $70k → 10%CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ADAPTIVE SPORTS CENTER: $5k → 19%SPIRIT HORSE CONNECTIONS: $36k → 18%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDEREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 10%KINGSBURG SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $17k → 18%KINGSBURG SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $10k → 18%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 53 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
30

Total granted

$24M
$584k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+29%

Still filing today

55%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsScience & TechReligionOther
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

  • TS
    The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +8%
  • BI
    BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +21%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $410k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES
    one grant, 2023 · $120k · revenue 0%
  • RU
    REGENTS UNIVERSITY OF CALIF UCSF FRESNO
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • SC
    SJV CLEAN ENERGY ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
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
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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2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
4
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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6
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
7
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
8
Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences

Keck Graduate Institute's mission is to enrich society with breakthrough approaches to education and translational research in healthcare and the life sciences.

Education
9
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
10
Sutter Valley Medical Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: Caring for our patients first and our people always. VISION: To be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
11
Sutter Health

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc Santa Barbara Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Marine Applied Research and Exploration. 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

62 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. 62 of the 115 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
38/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS UNIVERSITY OF CALIF: $9,702,010 · OtherREGENTS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFUC SAN DIEGO: $2,810,000 · OtherUC SAN DIEGOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $1,860,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $1,545,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGOIndividual grant recipient: $1,291,419 · OtherIndividual grant recipientREGENTS UNIVERSITY OF CALIF CO UCSB: $900,000 · Other+74 more: $4,743,983 · Other+74 moreThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $2,118,055 · Science & TechThe Salk In…J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $1,200,000 · Science & TechJ CRAIG VEN…+1 more: $30,000 · Science & TechTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,501,705 · EducationTHE BOARD…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $410,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $400,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $135,000 · Education10000 DEGREES: $122,500 · Education+5 more: $120,906 · EducationBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING: $1,632,562 · Social ScienceCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $410,000 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $140,000 · HealthTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $120,000 · HealthSONOMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $95,000 · HealthGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $65,000 · Health+5 more: $63,000 · HealthSpiritHorse Connections: $314,282 · Human ServicesABOUT-FACE MEDIA LITERACY INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesMadera County Sheriffs Foundation: $40,000 · Human ServicesKingsburg Senior Citizens Incorporated: $27,100 · Human Services+3 more: $30,000 · Human ServicesSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $195,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $20,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $8,000 · Philanthropy
Other$22,852,412Science & Tech$3,348,055Education$2,690,111Social Science$1,632,562Health$893,000Human Services$511,382Philanthropy$223,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $2,118,055 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING: $1,632,562 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,501,705 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $1,200,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $410,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $410,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKINGSBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $367,574 over 5y, 63% of budgetSpiritHorse Connections: $314,282 over 2y, 79% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $195,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWORLDREADERORG: $175,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $140,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget10000 DEGREES: $122,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $120,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABOUT-FACE MEDIA LITERACY INC: $100,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetSONOMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPETALUMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $54,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetThe Dala Monthly: $44,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetPet Rescue of Unwanted Dogs PROUD: $43,159 over 3y, 35% of budgetMissionary Supply Lines Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGLANCY WINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetMadera County Sheriffs Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetTRUTH FOR LIFE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAW FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY: $30,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMARINE APPLIED RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION: $30,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER PETALUMA INC: $28,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetKingsburg Senior Citizens Incorporated: $27,100 over 2y, 29% of budgetCouncil on Aging Services for Seniors: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSONOMA STACK TRAVEL BALL: $22,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetRick Alonzo Ministries: $21,074 over 2y, 15% of budgetSANTA ROSA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Dantes Boys Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINGSBURG HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS: $19,906 over 1y, 16% of budgetAIRTIME BMX: $15,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetCHORDSMEN INC: $13,750 over 1y, 17% of budgetOPEN GATE MINISTRIES INC: $12,420 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe: $12,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA ADAPTIVE SPORTS CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KINGSBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SpiritHorse Connections ↗
  • Who funds SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLDREADERORG ↗
  • Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
  • Who funds ABOUT-FACE MEDIA LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds SONOMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Sonoma County Communi…McNabb FoundationMarin Community Found…Sonoma County Vintner…The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…California Community …ImpactassetsincGs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…The Chicago Community…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · California Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report 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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    Find your warmest path to The Larry L Hillblom Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 115 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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