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The Philip Hohnstein Family 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.

$161k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$543kInternational$417kHealth$148kHuman Services$118kEducation$84kPublic Benefit$80kHousing & Shelter$56kPhilanthropy$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
$3,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FELLOWSHIP HOUSE$25,000
RIVERCREST COMMUNITY CHURCH$25,000
LIVING WATERS MINISTRIES$15,000
TENDER LIFE MATERNITY HOME$10,000
FLORENCE SYLVESTER MEMORIAL SENIOR$5,000
SAINT JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSP$5,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$5,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS$5,000
VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
GIGIS PLAYHOUSE$5,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS$5,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$5,000
COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ST NICHOLAS CHURCH$4,000
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 (FY17–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $2k → 9%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $2k → 9%CASA PACIFICA: $10k → 10%CASA PACIFICA: $10k → 10%CASA PACIFICA: $5k → 10%CASA PACIFICA: $5k → 10%CASA PACIFICA: $5k → 10%CASA PACIFICA: $5k → 10%VENTURA COUNTY RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 10%VENTURA COUNTY RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 10%VENTURA COUNTY RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 10%VENTURA COUNTY RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 10%VENTURA COUNTY RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 10%VENTURA COUNTY RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 39 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
15

Total granted

$1.5M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+54%

Still filing today

46%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterScience & TechFood & NutritionOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +145%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +90%
  • BB
    BEYOND BLINDNESS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • SH
    SETON HALL UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +58%
  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue +41%
  • MO
    METROPOLIS OF SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
3
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
4
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
5
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
6
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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7
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
8
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
9
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
10
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
11
Dominican University of California

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.

Education
12
National Marine Mammal Foundation Inc

The nmmf's mission is to improve and protect life for marine mammals, humans, and our shared oceans through science, service, and education. our vision is to be the leading laboratory in marine mammal science, where critical questions…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tender Life Maternity Home. 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

29 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. 29 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/29
Grantees still filing
15/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FELLOWSHIP HOUSE: $165,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP HOUSERIVERCREST COMMUNITY CHURCH: $165,000 · OtherRIVERCREST COMMUNITY CHURCHONE WORLD ONE COMMUNITY INC: $120,000 · OtherONE WORLD ONE COMMUNITY INCLIVING WATERS MINISTRIES: $115,000 · OtherLIVING WATERS MINISTRIESRONALD REAGAN FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherRONALD REAGAN FOUNDATIONST NICHOLAS CHURCH: $56,500 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: $52,500 · Other+37 more: $335,633 · Other+37 moreOrthodox Missions Mexico Inc: $296,625 · ReligionOrthodox Missions Me…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $47,500 · Human ServicesCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $40,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $8,000 · Human Services4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $55,000 · HealthCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $15,000 · HealthVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY: $3,000 · PhilanthropyLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $22,086 · EducationHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTENDER LIFE MATERNITY HOME: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,079,633Religion$296,625Human Services$109,500Health$70,000Philanthropy$38,000Education$22,086Housing & Shelter$20,000

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 budgetOrthodox Missions Mexico Inc: $296,625 over 5y, 25% of budgetONE WORLD ONE COMMUNITY INC: $120,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $55,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $47,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAge Well Senior Services Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF ST EGIDIO USA INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $22,086 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND BLINDNESS: $13,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTENDER LIFE MATERNITY HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEastwood Ranch Foundation: $6,123 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OWASP FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANET BEE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOZILLA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT APIS M INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Maritime Institute: $1,000 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 Orthodox Missions Mexico Inc ↗
  • Who funds ONE WORLD ONE COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families ↗
  • Who funds VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Age Well Senior Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY OF ST EGIDIO USA INC ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND BLINDNESS ↗
  • Who funds SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds TENDER LIFE MATERNITY HOME ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Eastwood Ranch Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗

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.

Verizon FoundationNJ9.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Philip Hohnstein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Philip Hohnstein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 57 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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