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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.

$178k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$101,250
Organizations funded a year
17 to 33
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
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 Engle Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalOther
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$170k27%
FY202321$49k43%
FY202217$21k35%
FY202126$48k50%
FY202033$107kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$135kHealth$134kHuman Services$41kSocial Science$29kHousing & Shelter$15kInternational$9kCivil Rights$9kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MT
MN
IL
NY
OR
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($237k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Engle Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLaguna Beach Seniors Inc: $37,396 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetChicago Psychoanalytic Institute: $29,202 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLaguna Beach Community Clinic: $27,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFriendship Shelter Inc: $15,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLaguna Beach Live: $9,980 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Joffrey Ballet: $4,160 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSallys Fund Inc: $2,700 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,825 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBooks for Africa Inc: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVictory Gardens Theater: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wooden Floor for Youth Movement: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaguna Food Pantry: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLaguna Canyon Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaguna Beach Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association: $240 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum Associates: $170 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYellowstone Forever: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern California Public Radio: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaguna Dance Festival: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $60 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 25.

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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.

Laguna Beach Community FoundationCA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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How do I get to Engle Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Engle Family Foundation 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.

About Engle Family Foundation

How much does Engle Family Foundation give?
Engle Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $178,493 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Engle Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (33%), Health (33%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Engle Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Laguna Beach Seniors Inc ($37k), Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute ($29k), Laguna Beach Community Clinic ($27k).
Does Engle Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Engle Family 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 Engle Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Laguna Beach Community Foundation, The Hanauer Family Foundation, Orange County Community Foundation.
Where is Engle Family Foundation based?
Engle Family 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 66 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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