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Avonlea Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$43k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$661k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Avonlea Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$38k9%
FY202314$38k43%
FY202219$47k11%
FY202116$38k50%
FY20203$30k0%
FY201920$38k15%
FY201824$67k96%
FY20173$13kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$97kEducation$65kHuman Services$43kHousing & Shelter$40kHealth$22kAnimals$15kInternational$8kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
IN
PA
CA
CO
MD
DC
HI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Musical Theatre Academy of Orange County$76,50085%
St Margarets Episcopal School$31,9005n/a
Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School Inc$16,5005n/a
StandUp for Kids$11,50050%
Orange County Rescue Mission Inc$11,50070%
Gary Sinise Foundation$9,00040%
Laura's House$8,00040%
Heartland Film Inc$7,00040%
Maui Homeward Bound Inc$6,0001n/a
Share Our Selves Corporation$6,00030%
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All grantees of Avonlea Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Musical Theatre Academy of Orange County$76,50085%
St Margarets Episcopal School$31,9005n/a
Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School Inc$16,5005n/a
StandUp for Kids$11,50050%
Orange County Rescue Mission Inc$11,50070%
Gary Sinise Foundation$9,00040%
Laura's House$8,00040%
Heartland Film Inc$7,00040%
Maui Homeward Bound Inc$6,0001n/a
Share Our Selves Corporation$6,00030%
The Eli Home Inc$6,00040%
Casa Romantica Cultural Center & Gardens$5,00040%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,00030%
Corporate Angel Network Inc$5,00010%
Kristis Cattitude$5,0002n/a
Friends of Folsom$5,0001n/a
Mustard Seed Ranch Inc$4,50030%
Los Angeles Mission Inc$4,50040%
Habitat for Humanity Maui Inc$4,50010%
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc$4,00020%
Choc Foundation$3,50020%
Women Helping Women$3,50020%
Shared Hope International$3,00020%
Love Hope Strength Foundation$2,50011%
Casa Teresa Inc$2,50020%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$2,00020%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$1,50010%
Rocklin Police Officers Association$1,50011%
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,50010%
The Let It Be Foundation$1,50010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$1,50010%
Maui Humane Society$1,50010%
Temple Beth El$1,0511n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Avonlea Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMusical Theatre Academy of Orange County: $76,500 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $11,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLaura's House: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHeartland Film Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetShare Our Selves Corporation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eli Home Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCasa Romantica Cultural Center & Gardens: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCorporate Angel Network Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMustard Seed Ranch Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLos Angeles Mission Inc: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Maui Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChoc Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen Helping Women: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetShared Hope International: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLove Hope Strength Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCasa Teresa Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocklin Police Officers Association: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Let It Be Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaui Humane Society: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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 Community FoundationCA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

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About Avonlea Charitable Foundation

How much does Avonlea Charitable Foundation give?
Avonlea Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $42,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Avonlea Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Education (20%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Avonlea Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Musical Theatre Academy of Orange County ($77k), St Margarets Episcopal School ($32k), Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School Inc ($17k).
Does Avonlea Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Avonlea Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Avonlea Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, O L Halsell Foundation, California Foundation for Stronger Communities.
Where is Avonlea Charitable Foundation based?
Avonlea Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

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 48 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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