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Laguna Beach Community Foundation

The Laguna Beach Community Foundation strengthens our community by encouraging philanthropy.

$305k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$5.6MYouth Development$3.0MPhilanthropy$2.0MReligion$883kRecreation & Sports$610kArts & Culture$585kEnvironment$447kHealth$259kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $243,076 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $305,380 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $62,304 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $153k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$797k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pomona College$53,076
Friday Morning Music Club Inc$50,000
Sally's Fund Inc$50,000
Seaside Legal Services$25,000
Friendship Shelter Inc$25,000
Laguna Beach Seniors Inc$25,000
Laguna Beach Police and Community Foundation$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%International Guiding Eyes Inc: $14k → 14%Homeaid America: $500 → 10%Sally's Fund Inc: $50k → 10%Chhahari: $50k → 10%Assistance League of Laguna Beach: $4k → 10%California Policy Center: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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IL
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CA
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DC
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 12 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
74

Total granted

$10M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+51%

Still filing today

92%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • LC
    LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN
    5× · 2017–2023 · $3.7M · revenue +322%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH
    5× · 2017–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +55% · 69% of their budget
  • POMONA COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • CC
    CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $592k · revenue +266% · 55% of their budget
  • MF
    MACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN FILMS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $291k · revenue -91%
  • NC
    Neighborhood Church Congregational of Laguna Beach
    one grant, 2023 · $125k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
2
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education
5
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
6
Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation

The mission of rancho los alamitos foundation is public education in the broadest possible sense. the foundation uses the historic site, its history and resources to explore the story of the site in relation to the region, state, nation…

Arts & Culture
7
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
8
Long Beach City College Foundation

The foundation's specific and primary purposes are to promote the general welfare of long beach city college by assisting and supporting the attainment of educational, athletic, and cultural goals; by assisting it in fulfilling its role of…

Education
9
Los Angeles Conservancy

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.

Arts & Culture
10
California State University Los Angeles Alumni Association Inc

To foster relationships among alumni, students and community by providing services and activities that build loyalty, support and a lifelong connection to the university.

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11
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
12
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Marino Motor Classic. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Health CentersClassical Music EnsemblesSenior Support ServicesYouth Ice Hockey ProgramsFallen First Responder Supp…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Government Accountability R…Food Pantries & AssistanceMuslim Community Organizati…Rotary Club FoundationsCancer Support OrganizationsAt-Risk Youth MentoringChristian Missionary Organi…Developmental Disabilities …Community Arts OrganizationsProfessional Ballet Compani…Animal Rescue and AdoptionPublic University Foundatio…Homeless Services & ShelterYouth Development CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%4%35–55yr13%70%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/95
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,883

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.

04the grantee network

88 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. 88 of the 96 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/88
Grantees still filing
66/88
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN — $3,688,862 · EducationLAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGNPOMONA COLLEGE — $1,569,076 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGE+10 more — $241,474 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH — $2,970,962 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA…ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,317,806 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNTY CO…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $206,301 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CH…Laguna Beach Community Foundation — $200,000 · PhilanthropyLaguna Beach Com…Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc — $160,525 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Char…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $111,380 · Philanthropy+5 more — $104,238 · PhilanthropyST MARYS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $758,000 · OtherST MARYS EPISCOPA…LAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC — $131,500 · OtherLAGUNA BEACH SENI…Neighborhood Church Congregational of Laguna Beach — $125,000 · OtherNeighborhood Chur…LAGUNA BEACH EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AND CAP — $101,660 · OtherCity of Laguna Beach - Grants for Artists Program — $100,600 · OtherLAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC — $230,000 · OtherLAGUNA BEACH COMM…SALLYS FUND INC — $84,700 · OtherFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC — $130,200 · OtherFRIENDSHIP SHELTE…CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $95,677 · Other+50 more — $404,967 · Other+50 moreCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY — $592,038 · Recreation & Sports+3 more — $30,200 · Recreation & SportsLAGUNA CANYON FOUNDATION — $444,270 · Environment+5 more — $13,076 · EnvironmentMACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN FILMS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $290,559 · International+3 more — $7,000 · International
Education$5,499,412Youth Development$2,970,962Philanthropy$2,100,250Other$2,162,304Recreation & Sports$622,238Environment$457,346International$297,559

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN — $3,688,862 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH — $2,970,962 over 5y, 69% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE — $1,569,076 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,317,806 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY — $592,038 over 1y, 55% of budgetLAGUNA CANYON FOUNDATION — $444,270 over 3y, 18% of budgetMACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN FILMS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $290,559 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC — $230,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $206,301 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaguna Beach Community Foundation — $200,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc — $160,525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $151,041 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC — $131,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC — $130,200 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $111,380 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AND CAP — $101,660 over 2y, 51% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $95,677 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSALLYS FUND INC — $84,700 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $64,583 over 1y, 16% of budgetFRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB INC — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSeaside Legal Services — $50,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCHHAHARI INC — $50,000 over 1y, 95% of budgetTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $31,623 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE — $25,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAchievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter — $15,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH POLICE AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH WATER POLO FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGLENNWOOD HOUSING FOUNDATION INC — $13,820 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPacific Symphony — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGET INSPIRED — $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetWE ARE GROUNDSWELL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER SANTA ANA VITALITY FOUNDATI FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAST CALL FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLAGUNA PLEIN AIR PAINTERS ASSOCIATION — $6,416 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $6,252 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH LIVE — $5,980 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLAGUNA ART MUSEUM — $5,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD AID — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYMAKERS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAL STATE UNIVERSITY FULLERTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaguna Radio Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMUSIC IN COMMON INC — $2,462 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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.

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.

Orange County Communi…The William Jeff and …Macgillivray Family F…The Hanauer Family Fo…O L Halsell FoundationRoberta Freeman Cox C…J Stanley & Mary W Jo…The Hexberg Family Fo…Ueberroth Family Foun…Engle Family Foundati…Assistance League of …The Bassman Family Ch…
Orange County Community FoundationCA64.3× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · The Hanauer Family Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Roberta Freeman Cox Charitable Foundation · J Stanley & Mary W Johnson Family Foundation · The Hexberg Family Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · Engle Family Foundation · Assistance League of Laguna Beach · 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 Laguna Beach Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    25report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Laguna Beach Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Laguna Beach Community 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 96 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $96 of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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