About Hinz Charitable Foundation
The Hinz Charitable Foundation concentrates its giving on Christian faith-based organizations, providing large, mission-focused grants to a small set of recipients. Its support includes faith communications and media, local church funding, and Christian service organizations, with several multi-hundred-thousand dollar gifts and repeat awards to the same groups. The foundation appears to prioritize sustaining institutional capacity and outreach for evangelical ministries rather than broad, diversified philanthropic portfolios.
Focus Areas
Christian media & international faith communications (New Europe Communications)Evangelical church support and local congregation funding (Lake Avenue Church)Christian leadership and resource organizations (Strategic Resource Group)Faith-based social services/housing ministries (Door of Hope)
Who They Fund
Christian-based organizationschurches / congregationsfaith-based nonprofits and ministries
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated: few, large grants with repeat funding to the same faith-based organizations; primarily one-time or multi-award large gifts rather than many small grants.
About Hinz Charitable Foundation
Hinz Charitable Foundation directs sizable grants to a small circle of Christian-based organizations, with several awards in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and repeat support for the same ministries. Its largest recent grant was $1,250,000 to New Europe Communication in Allen, Texas, for financial support to a Christian-based organization. The foundation also backed Strategic Resource Group with $774,000 in 2023 and $600,000 in 2024, showing a pattern of continued support rather than isolated gifts. The grant list points to a faith-centered portfolio that includes Christian media and international communications, church support, religious leadership and resource organizations, and faith-based social services. Pasadena-area organizations appear regularly, including Door of Hope and Lake Avenue Church, while other recipients range from Washington, DC to Jackson, Mississippi. Several awards are structured as direct financial support to organizations, suggesting the foundation often reinforces operating capacity and ministry continuity. Across the recent grants, the foundation’s giving is concentrated, repeat-oriented, and anchored in Christian institutional support.
What Hinz Charitable Foundation Funds
A major thread in the foundation’s giving is Christian media and communications. New Europe Communications received $1,250,000 in 2023 and another $540,000 in 2024, both described as financial support to a Christian-based organization. Church and congregation support is another visible area. Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena received $215,000 in 2024 after a $48,000 grant in 2023, and Christ Church Sierra Madre received $15,000 in 2023. The foundation also funds faith-based social service work. Door of Hope in Pasadena received $350,000 in 2023 and $150,000 in 2024, while Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles received $50,000 in 2023. Religious leadership and resource organizations are part of the portfolio as well, including $774,000 in 2023 and $600,000 in 2024 to Strategic Resource Group.
How Hinz Charitable Foundation Gives
Typical grants are substantial: the distribution shown is $22,475 at the 25th percentile, $100,000 at the median, and $203,750 at the 75th percentile. The pattern is not limited to one-time awards; several recipients appear in multiple years, including Strategic Resource Group, New Europe Communications, Door of Hope, Lake Avenue Church, Capitol Ministries, Obria Medical Clinics, Allegro Organizational Solutions, and John Perkins Foundation-related entities. The foundation is a private grantmaker with no program-related investments and no individual giving. The recent grants suggest direct financial support to organizations rather than tightly specified project funding.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$2.1M
Total Assets
$11.9M
Total Revenue
$1.7M
Total Expenses
$4.2M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $22K and $204K, with a median of $100K.
25th Percentile
$22K
Median
$100K
75th Percentile
$204K
Geographic Reach
National9 states funded
About 50% of grants go to recipients in CA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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