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Cherese Mari Laulhere 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
93% of Cherese Mari Laulhere Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Orange County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Cherese Mari Laulhere Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- $10k–50k11 grants · $250k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000,000 |
| MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER | $800,000 |
| CHILDREN TODAY | $525,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE | $250,000 |
| DISCOVERY ARTS | $45,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $30,000 |
| THE GUIDANCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| CAMP DEL CORAZON | $25,000 |
| LOCKS OF LOVE | $25,000 |
| OUR MILITARY KIDS | $20,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF LONG BEACH | $20,000 |
| TICHENOR ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC FOR CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| LONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION | $15,000 |
| NEW LIFE BEGINNINGS | $15,000 |
| COASTAL GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +36% since the first grant, against -40% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2018, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M 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
- CTChildren Today Inc3× · 2017–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +36% · 39% of their budget
- MOMeals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $60k · revenue +79%
- TGTHE GUIDANCE CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- SCSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUEone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -40%
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.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
Children's law center of california (clc) provides legal representation for children and youth impacted by abuse and neglect. we advocate for our clients by supporting families; fighting for reunification, permanence, educational…
To deliver oral health education and comprehensive treatment for economically disadvantaged children, including those with complex medical considerations, while also providing premier training in pediatric and multi-specialty dentistry.
Assistance League of Laguna Beach volunteers are focused on transforming lives and strengthening our community.
To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children.
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Westerly school empowers students to become lifelong learners who lead with curiosity, create with courage, and inspire with heart.
To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…
To ensure that children with complex health care needs have access to timely and high quality medical care, and that pediatric specialists are able to thrive in californias health care
We are a catalyst that informs, activates, and connects community leaders to more meaningfully serve Long Beach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Womenshelter of Long Beach and the most unlike its peers is The Jack Canine Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENSHELTER OF LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds Children Today Inc ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Long Beach ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY ARTS ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOCKS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP DEL CORAZON INC ↗
- Who funds TICHENOR ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds The Jack Canine Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE GRAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MILLER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LONG BEACH AU ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH DAY NURSERY ↗
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: Bess J Hodges Foundation · Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation
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 Cherese Mari Laulhere Foundation 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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