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The Healthcare Foundation

Santa Ana, CA · EIN 33-0644620. Reported 44 grants totalling $2,723,026 to 22 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$30,000median grant
$2,723,026granted, 2021-2024
22recipients, as named on its returns
67%of grantees funded again the next year
$21.0Massets, latest filing

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. The Healthcare 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.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $30,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $20,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $3,500 and the largest $200,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
10 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
8 grants
$100,000 and Up
12 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
St Jude Medical CenterFullerton, CA$525,000332023
Hoag Memorial Hospital PresbyterianNewport Beach, CA$385,000442024
St Joseph Hospital of OrangeOrange, CA$379,487332023
Choc FoundationOrange, CA$336,301442024
The Regents of the University of CaliforniaIrvine, CA$325,000442024
Providence St Jude Medical CenterOrange, CA$200,000112024
Providence St Joseph Hospital OrangeOrange, CA$100,000112024
Human Options IncIrvine, CA$91,738442024
Mary's PathSanta Ana, CA$80,000332024
CASA Teresa IncOrange, CA$75,000332024
Women's Transitional Living Center IncFullerton, CA$55,000222022
Latino Health AccessSanat, CA$35,000222024
Lestonnac Free ClinicOrange, CA$25,000112023
WiseplaceSanta Ana, CA$20,000112023
Beyond BlindnessSanta Ana, CA$15,000112024
Family Support NetworkFullerton, CA$15,000112023
Orange County United WayIrvine, CA$15,000112024
Three Starlings FoundationCosta Mesa, CA$12,000112024
Moms OcSanta Ana, CA$10,000112024
Susan G Komen Breast Cancer FoundationDallas, TX$10,000112023
Unlimited PossibilitiesSanta Ana, CA$10,000112023
Orange County General ReliefSanta Ana, CA$3,500112024

10 of 22 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 67%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 28 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.

Human Services
13 grants
Health Care
12 grants
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Public & Societal Benefit
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20219$734,174$89,687
20229$691,069$86,069
202312$652,283$25,869
202414$645,500$17,500

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

100% 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.

California
$2.7M
Texas
$10K

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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.

Orange County Community Foundation13 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsHoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian9 shared recipientsSisters of St Joseph9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $30,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 The Healthcare Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). 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: 1505 17TH Street 113, Santa Ana, CA, 92705. 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.

EIN 33-0644620 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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