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Assistance League of Laguna Beach

Assistance League of Laguna Beach volunteers are focused on transforming lives and strengthening our community.

$384k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$259kEducation$180kCrime & Legal$129kHuman Services$110kFood & Nutrition$105kArts & Culture$47kYouth Development$19kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $239,481, the rows itemized in this filing. The $383,962 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $144,481 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $215k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Laguna Beach Seniors$10,000
Gigis Playhouse$10,000
Friendship Shelter$10,000
Parentis Foundation$10,000
Strider Education Foundation$9,698
Laguna Playhouse$7,500
Boys and Girls Club Pasadena$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Homefront America: $38k → 10%Homefront America: $37k → 10%Homefront America: $35k → 10%Parentis Foundation: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$816k · 10 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$816k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+16%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JS
    JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $205k · revenue +33%
  • LB
    LAGUNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $170k · revenue +4%
  • HA
    HOMEFRONT AMERICA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • LAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue +16%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Laguna Beach Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
2
Family Promise of Los Angeles

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.

Human Services
3
Laguna Blanca School

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.

Education
4
Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach

To promote, produce, and sponsor events and activities that encourage the appreciation, study and performance of the arts.

Arts & Culture
5
Assistance League of Laguna Beach

Assistance League of Laguna Beach volunteers are focused on transforming lives and strengthening our community.

Human Services
6
The Guidance Center

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.

Health
7
La's Best

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).

Education
8
Long Beach Community Players Inc

To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.

Arts & Culture
9
League of California Community Foundations

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…

Philanthropy
10
Bayfront Youth and Family Services Inc

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…

Health
11
The Honarkar Foundation
Public Benefit
12
Laguna Beach Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association

Advancing the economic climate of the community and the quality of life for the citizens of the city of laguna beach

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laguna Beach Seniors Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC: $205,000 · Recreation & SportsJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING…LAGUNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $169,800 · EducationLAGUNA BEACH HIGH SCHO…LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY: $105,000 · OtherLAGUNA FOOD PANTRYLAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC: $30,400 · OtherLAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INCGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC: $17,500 · OtherGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INCHEARFELT HEROES: $12,000 · OtherHEARFELT HEROESLAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC: $12,000 · OtherLAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY C…FRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INCThe Collaborative Courts Foundation: $109,773 · Crime & LegalThe Collaborativ…WAYMAKERS: $19,682 · Crime & LegalWAYMAKERSHOMEFRONT AMERICA INC: $110,283 · Human ServicesHOMEFRONT AMERI…PARENTIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesPARENTIS FOUNDA…THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE: $29,500 · Arts & CultureSTRIDER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $19,395 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA: $7,000 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$205,000Education$169,800Other$186,900Crime & Legal$129,455Human Services$120,283Arts & Culture$29,500Youth Development$26,395

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC: $205,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $169,800 over 5y, 12% of budgetHOMEFRONT AMERICA INC: $110,283 over 4y, 11% of budgetThe Collaborative Courts Foundation: $109,773 over 4y, 37% of budgetLAGUNA FOOD PANTRY: $105,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC: $30,400 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE: $29,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWAYMAKERS: $19,682 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTRIDER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $19,395 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPARENTIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Orange County Communi…Macgillivray Family F…Laguna Beach Communit…O L Halsell FoundationRoberta Freeman Cox C…Ueberroth Family Foun…The William Jeff and …Sisters of St Joseph …Engle Family Foundati…Maggie and Earl Russe…The Hanauer Family Fo…Mission Hospital Regi…
Orange County Community FoundationCA22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Assistance League of Laguna Beach funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Assistance League of Laguna Beach. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Assistance League of Laguna Beach?

    Find your warmest path to Assistance League of Laguna Beach through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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