· Private foundation
The Neilan 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $644k
- $250k+1 grant · $486k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUNTINGTON HEALTH | $486,000 |
| PASADENA SENIOR CENTER | $209,184 |
| USC NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CEN | $200,000 |
| THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY ART MUSEUM | $185,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $50,000 |
| EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| QUILTS FOR KIDS NEPAL | $25,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $20,000 |
| BOYS REPUBLIC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $511k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of The Neilan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 61%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHO'OKAKO'O CORPORATION7× · 2017–2023 · $855k · revenue +107%
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +14%
- EAEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +188%
Funded once
- SJST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $65k
- TFTHE FOOD BASKET INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -14%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +74%
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.
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.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
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We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.
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…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
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,…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 46 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds HO'OKAKO'O CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds PASADENA SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Conservatory of Music ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAWAII HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds AKAKA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL FORESTS ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Boys Republic ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE ↗
- Who funds QUILTS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS - SAN GABRIEL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY ↗
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: The Rose Hills Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Neilan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Neilan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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