California · Nonprofit
HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY
HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,563,005 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ($872,072). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $701k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $114k
What Hillel Foundation of Orange County does
Mission
The organization seeks to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduatestudents of uci, csuf, chapman university and the orange county community colleges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student engagement: student engagement fund supports all of our programs planned bythe student board of all of our campuses. This fund also supports leadershiptrainings, one on one meetings with students, and student trips.
$222,276 spent52% of program spendingJewish and israel fellowships - this program was cohort-based learning. During the course of the year we ran three different fellowships that gave students the opportunity to learn about jewish education and israel politics. Student heard from a variety of speakers and presenters throughout the different courses.
$119,437 spent28% of program spendingShabbat and holidays - this program allows students to celebrate our weekly jewish holiday of shabbat along with the main jewish holidays throughout the year. These holidays include high holy days, hanukkah, purim, and passover. We do this through community meals, holiday parties, and ritual observances.
$87,464 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $429,177.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $61k to $307k (+405%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 30% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Robin Steinmetz
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $9k → $518k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 43% · 2019 47% · 2020 55% · 2021 36% · 2022 27% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $959k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY is better cushioned than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY?
- HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,563,005 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ($872,072). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,563,005 in grants to HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $872,072 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing