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Assistance League of Laguna Beach
Assistance League of Laguna Beach volunteers are focused on transforming lives and strengthening our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $239,481 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $383,962 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $144,481 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Shea Therapeutic Ctr | $40,000 |
| Homefront America | $38,283 |
| Collaborative Courts Fdn | $35,000 |
| Laguna Beach HS Scholar Fdn | $30,000 |
| Laguna Food Pantry | $20,000 |
| Heartfelt | $12,000 |
| Friendship Shelter | $10,000 |
| Laguna Beach Seniors | $10,000 |
| Parentis Foundation | $10,000 |
| Gigis Playhouse | $10,000 |
| Strider Education Foundation | $9,698 |
| Laguna Playhouse | $7,500 |
| Boys and Girls Club Pasadena | $7,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- JSJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC5× · 2021–2025 · $205k · revenue +33%
- LBLAGUNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $170k · revenue +4%
- HAHOMEFRONT AMERICA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue +36%
Funded once
LAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINICone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue +16%
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 Laguna Beach Community Foundation strengthens our community by encouraging philanthropy. We provide expertise and resources to assist local charities, connect donor passions with nonprofit needs, and work with local professional…
Family promise of the south bay assists families experiencing housing insecurity with short-term shelter, case management, and navigation with the goal of creating a sustainable solution for their family.
The purpose of the school is to maintain a kindergarten, primary, secondary, and college preparatory school for boys and girls, and to instruct, discipline, train, and educate in all studies.
To promote, produce, and sponsor events and activities that encourage the appreciation, study and performance of the arts.
Assistance League of Laguna Beach volunteers are focused on transforming lives and strengthening our community.
The guidance center provides comprehensive mental health treatment to our community's most disadvantaged children and their families struggling with mental illness and abuse, leading them toward a positive and productive future.
La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).
To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
Bayfront Youth & Family Services is a quality provider of behavioral and mental health treatment services for children, adolescents, and their caregivers. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive support system that promotes safe and…
Advancing the economic climate of the community and the quality of life for the citizens of the city of laguna beach
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laguna Beach Seniors Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Collaborative Courts Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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
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 JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Collaborative Courts Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds WAYMAKERS ↗
- Who funds STRIDER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PARENTIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · Laguna Beach Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Roberta Freeman Cox Charitable Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Engle Family Foundation · Maggie and Earl Russell Foundation · The Hanauer Family Foundation · Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center
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 Assistance League of Laguna Beach 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.
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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