· Private foundation
Whh Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $228k
- $10k–50k76 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $2,270,200 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $695,050 |
| HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $560,000 |
| HUNTINGTON LIBRARY | $350,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $215,000 |
| PROJECT 34 | $161,000 |
| SIGN FRACTURE CARE INTERNATIONAL | $150,000 |
| ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET | $145,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $127,725 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS | $121,800 |
| COMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE | $115,000 |
| OHSU FOUNDATION | $109,700 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $95,000 |
| LA-MAS | $90,000 |
| MOUNTAIN STAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY | $80,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
144 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles6× · 2019–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +17%
- HEHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY6× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +112%
- HHHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $665k · revenue +237%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $76k
- REREGENERATIVE EDUCATION CENTERS INCone grant, 2023 · $60k
- URUC RIVERSIDEone grant, 2021 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
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,…
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 association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is LA84 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
218 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 218 of the 267 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds Foothill Family Service ↗
- Who funds SIGN FRACTURE CARE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET ↗
- Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds PUEBLO NUEVO EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT G ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds California Council on Science and Techno logy ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ASPEN SPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA-MAS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Entrega ↗
- Who funds THE FIELD SEMESTER ↗
- Who funds LA84 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE PARTNERS LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Anjulicia Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Whh Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Albina Head Start Inc — 81% of income from government
- J Bar J Youth Services Inc — 71% of income from government
- Neighborimpact — 68% of income from government
- Mountainstar Family Relief Nursery — 60% of income from government
- Berkshire Grown Inc — 28% of income from government
- The Blueprint Foundation — 10% of income from government
- Tower Theatre Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey Inc — 6% of income from government
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art — 5% of income from government
- Communities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces — 3% of income from government
- Bendfilm Inc — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Casa of Central Oregon — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc — 1% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
- Young Musicians & Artists Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 0% of income from government
- The Peaceful Presence Project — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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