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Engle Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PACIFIC MARINE MAMAMAL CENTER | $101,250 |
| LAGUNA BEACH ART MUSEUM | $38,725 |
| LAGUNA BEACH PLAYHOUSE | $10,000 |
| LAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC | $10,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $8,498 |
| SALLY'S FUND | $2,500 |
| ORO VALLEY CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $1,500 |
| FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS | $1,200 |
| BOOKS FOR AFRICA | $1,020 |
| LAGUNA BEACH LIVE | $1,000 |
| KJAZ | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- LBLAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +73%
- CPCHICAGO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE2× · 2020–2021 · $29k · revenue +9%
LAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC3× · 2020–2023 · $27k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- AACLUone grant, 2023 · $5k
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +65%- LBLAGUNA BEACH FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2020 · $3k
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 ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Laguna college of art & design prepares individuals for careers as creative artists and designers in a culturally and ethnically diverse world through a curriculum that emphasizes acquiring skills based on observation, representation, and…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.
Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laguna Beach Live and the most unlike its peers is Sallys Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 66 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 LAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Humanities Festival ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH LIVE ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SALLYS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds Victory Gardens Theater ↗
- Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY ↗
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: Laguna Beach Community Foundation · The Hanauer Family Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation · Roberta Freeman Cox Charitable Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · Assistance League of Laguna Beach · Weier Family Foundation · J Stanley & Mary W Johnson Family Foundation · Weaver Family Private Foundation · The Bassman Family Charitable Trust
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 Engle Family 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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