Bess J Hodges Foundation
Long Beach, CA · EIN 33-0046140. Reported 359 grants totalling $1,409,289 to 112 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Bess J Hodges Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $5,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $28,042. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral Roberts University | Tulsa, OK | $96,793 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Anthony High School Fdn | Long Beach, CA | $70,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Trinity Broadcasting | Santa Ana, CA | $48,396 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Assistance League of Lb | Long Beach, CA | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific | Long Beach, CA | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Long Beach City College Fdn | Long Beach, CA | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Gives | Long Beach, CA | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Meal on Wheels of Long Beach | Long Beach, CA | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Musical Theatre West | Long Beach, CA | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Pathways Volunteer Hospice | Lakewood, CA | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Rancho Los Alamitos Fdn | Long Beach, CA | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Joseph Schoolchurch | Long Beach, CA | $23,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Food Finders | Lakewood, CA | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Public Library Fdn | Long Beach, CA | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Interval House | Long Beach, CA | $21,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Rancho Los Cerritos Fdn | Long Beach, CA | $21,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Francis Center | Los Angeles, CA | $20,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Christian Outreach Appeal | Long Beach, CA | $20,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Csulb President's Scholars | Long Beach, CA | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Long Beach Museum of Art | Long Beach, CA | $20,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Pathways to Independence | Los Alamitos, CA | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Symphony Assoc | Long Beach, CA | $19,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| International City Theatre | Long Beach, CA | $17,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Operation Jump Start | Long Beach, CA | $17,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Childnet Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $17,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Ican California Abilities | Torrance, CA | $17,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lb | Long Beach, CA | $16,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| For the Child | Long Beach, CA | $16,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Bar Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $16,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Ability First | Long Beach, CA | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Able Arts Work | Long Beach, CA | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Calif Conference for Equality | Long Beach, CA | $15,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Children's Dental Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Century Club | Long Beach, CA | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Memorial Medical Center Fdn | Long Beach, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Shared Science | Long Beach, CA | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Ukleja Ctr for Ethical Leadership | Long Beach, CA | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Jewish Family & Children Svcs | Long Beach, CA | $14,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Precious Lamb | Long Beach, CA | $14,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Salvation Army | Long Beach, CA | $14,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Carenter Performing Arts Ctr | Long Beach, CA | $14,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| His Little Feet | Long Beach, CA | $14,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Home Ownership Pers Improvmnt | Torrance, CA | $14,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Leadership Long Beach | Long Beach, CA | $14,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Life Steps Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $14,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Live Love Animal Rescue | Long Beach, CA | $14,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Young Horizons Childrens Daycare Ct | Long Beach, CA | $13,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Dramatic Results | Signal Hill, CA | $13,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra | Long Beach, CA | $13,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Police Officers Assoc | Signal Hill, CA | $12,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Fisher House | Long Beach, CA | $12,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Lb Ronald Mcdonald House | Long Beach, CA | $12,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ground Education | Long Beach, CA | $11,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Human Save | Long Beach, CA | $11,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Blast | Long Beach, CA | $11,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Womens Shelter of Long Beach | Long Beach, CA | $11,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Camareta Singers of Lb | Long Beach, CA | $11,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Cooper Steinhauser Fdn | Lakewood, CA | $11,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Human It | Long Beach, CA | $11,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Action Sports Kids Fdn | Long Beach, CA | $10,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Century Villages | Long Beach, CA | $10,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Csulb Athletics | Long Beach, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Sailing Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Partners for Better Vision | Long Beach, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Fix Long Beach Now | Long Beach, CA | $9,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| California Aquatic Therapy | Long Beach, CA | $9,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Long Beach Blues Society | Long Beach, CA | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Day Nursery | Long Beach, CA | $8,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Long Beach Area Council Boy Scouts | Long Beach, CA | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Tichnor Clinic for Children | Long Beach, CA | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Community Table | Long Beach, CA | $7,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Youth Chorus | Long Beach, CA | $7,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| The Guidance Center | Long Beach, CA | $7,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Order of Malta | San Francisco, CA | $6,100 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Arts Council of Long Beach | Long Beach, CA | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Historical Society of Long Beach | Long Beach, CA | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Verbum Dei Missionary Sisters | Long Beach, CA | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Partners of Parks | Long Beach, CA | $5,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Augie's Quest to Cure Als | Denver, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Carpenter Performing Arts Ctr | Long Beach, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Cancer Society | Long Beach, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Museum of Latin American Art | Long Beach, CA | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| California Families in Focus | Long Beach, CA | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Children Today | Long Beach, CA | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Design Make Learn | Long Beach, CA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewel Box Childrens Theater | Long Beach, CA | $3,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Bixby Knolls Community Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Father Al's Outreach | Long Beach, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Junior League of Long Beach | Long Beach, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum | Long Beach, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lgbtq Center of Long Beach | Long Beach, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Life Beginnings | Long Beach, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pools of Hope | Long Beach, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Mary Medical Center Fdn | Long Beach, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trauma International - Lb | Tustin, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| AIDS Food Store | Long Beach, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Memorial Care | Long Beach, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Cambodian Community | Long Beach, CA | $2,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| YMCA of Greater Long Beach | Long Beach, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Algalita Marine Research | Long Beach, CA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Child Lane | Long Beach, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Christ Lutheran Preschool | Long Beach, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Long Beach Police Fdn | Long Beach, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Opportunity Schools | Long Beach, CA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Aquatic Capital of America | Long Beach, CA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lb Center for Economic Inclusion | Long Beach, CA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mexican American Bar Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Compound | Long Beach, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Love in the Mirror | Long Beach, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Newcomb Academy Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Turning Point USA | Phoenix, AZ | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Allb-Cameo | Long Beach, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
84 of 112 (75%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 84%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 131 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 65 | $256,522 | $3,000 |
| 2022 | 73 | $293,216 | $3,500 |
| 2023 | 73 | $283,746 | $3,000 |
| 2024 | 69 | $268,563 | $3,000 |
| 2025 | 79 | $307,242 | $3,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
93% of its giving went to organizations in California. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Bess J Hodges Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 5100 E Anaheim Road, Long Beach, CA, 90815. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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