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Laguna Beach Community Foundation
The Laguna Beach Community Foundation strengthens our community by encouraging philanthropy. We provide expertise and resources to assist local charities, connect donor passions with nonprofit needs, and work with local professional advisors in assisting their clients in giving
- $305k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $243k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $53,076
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 71
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $797k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Laguna Beach Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $243k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $612k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $652k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $2.4M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $4.7M | 45% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $149k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 71 | $3.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laguna College of Art & Design | $3,688,862 | 5 | 8% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach | $2,970,962 | 5 | 69% |
| Pomona College | $1,569,076 | 4 | 0% |
| St Marys Episcopal Church | $758,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Crystal Cove Conservancy | $592,038 | 1 | 55% |
| Laguna Canyon Foundation | $444,270 | 3 | 18% |
| Macgillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation | $290,559 | 1 | 10% |
| Laguna Beach Community Clinic | $230,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Laguna Beach Education Foundation | $151,041 | 2 | 9% |
| Laguna Beach Seniors Inc | $131,500 | 3 | 12% |
Show all 87 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Laguna Beach Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Laguna Beach Community Foundation
- How much does Laguna Beach Community Foundation give?
- Laguna Beach Community Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $243,076, out of $305,380 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 71 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Laguna Beach Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Youth Development (21%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Laguna Beach Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Laguna College of Art & Design ($3.7M), Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach ($3.0M), Pomona College ($1.6M).
- Does Laguna Beach Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Laguna Beach Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation, Macgillivray Family Foundation.
- Where is Laguna Beach Community Foundation based?
- Laguna Beach Community Foundation is based in CA.
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