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The Richard Holmes Family Foundation at a glance

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The Richard Holmes 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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$51kReligion$38kHealth$21kHuman Services$6kScience & Tech$5kCrime & Legal$2kHousing & Shelter$2kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$348k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MALIBU PACIFIC CHURCH$7,540
HONOR WATCH FOUNDATION$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$2,500
THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$2,000
PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC$1,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$1,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$1,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$411
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BERKELEY ENGINEERING FUND: $3k → 10%UCSF FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%THE MALIBU PACIFIC CHURCH: $10k → 14%HONOR WATCH FOUNDATION: $6k → 9%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%EMANCIPET HOUSTON: $1k → 10%KERRVILLE ISD: $411 → 13%PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%DOG LODGE SANCTUARY: $500 → 14%RIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL: $3k → 16%THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $8k → 13%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 9%BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1k → 16%THE MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%THE MALIBU PACIFIC CHURCH: $10k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%DOG LODGE SANCTUARY: $500 → 14%RIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL: $3k → 16%THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $2k → 13%THE BERKELEY ENGINEERING FUND: $3k → 10%THE MALIBU PACIFIC CHURCH: $8k → 14%CROSSWALK CENTER: $1k → 16%THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $1k → 13%THE MALIBU PACIFIC CHURCH: $5k → 14%RIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL: $3k → 16%THE MALIBU PACIFIC CHURCH: $5k → 14%CROSSWALK CENTER: $1k → 16%ST JOHN'S SCHOOL: $5k → 16%ST JOHN'S SCHOOL: $5k → 16%ST JOHN'S SCHOOL: $5k → 16%SEACH HOMELESS SERVICES: $1k → 16%SEARCH HOMELESS SERVICES: $1k → 16%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

NY
OH
CA
CO
VA
HI
GA
TX
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$84k · 8 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$84k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+16%

Still filing today

63%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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

  • SJ
    St John's School
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +100%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +35%
  • CC
    CROSSWALK CENTER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • MC
    MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +85%
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • TJ
    THE JUVENILE DIABETES RESERACH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
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
3
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
4
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
5
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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6
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
7
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
8
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
9
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
10
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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11
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine

The sanford consortium is a collaboration among five preeminent life science research institutions formed to enable renowned scientists with expertise in stem cell and regenerative medicine research to collaborate to seek transformative…

Health
12
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dog Lodge Sanctuary. 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

12 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. 12 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MALIBU PACIFIC CHURCH: $37,642 · OtherTHE MALIBU PACIFIC CHURCHSt John's School: $15,000 · OtherSt John's SchoolRIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL: $8,500 · OtherRIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOLHONOR WATCH FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherHONOR WATCH FOUNDATIONTHE BERKELEY ENGINEERING FUND: $5,000 · OtherTHE BERKELEY ENGINEERING FUND+8 more: $6,661 · Other+8 moreMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $4,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLIT…PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC: $1,000 · HealthPARKINSON VOICE…American Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Heart …CROSSWALK CENTER: $2,000 · Crime & LegalCompassion International Incorporated: $1,000 · International
Other$78,803Education$28,500Health$17,500Crime & Legal$2,000International$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt John's School: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSWALK CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDog Lodge Sanctuary: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Richard Holmes Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richard Holmes Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 23 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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