· Community foundation
Long Beach Community Foundation
The LONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION initiates positive change for long beach through charitable giving, stewardship and strategic grantmaking.
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.
The 81 grants below total $4,955,909 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,788,722 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $832,813 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
- Under $10k14 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMMIGRANT DEFENDERS LAW CENTER | $809,122 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS WEST | $591,672 |
| LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION | $565,000 |
| CSULB 49ER FOUNDATION | $321,446 |
| MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $227,247 |
| LONG BEACH NAVY MEMORIAL HERITAGE ASSOCIATION | $199,000 |
| EXP | $175,000 |
| LONG BEACH JOURNALISM INITIATIVE | $141,500 |
| LONG BEACH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $102,674 |
| CITY OF LONG BEACH - TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION DEPARTMENT | $100,000 |
| AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC | $76,800 |
| RIVERPARK COALITION | $68,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH | $61,355 |
| LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $56,759 |
| ROCKHARBOR CHURCH | $52,121 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
104 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 31 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- LBLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +160%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION4× · 2019–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +22%- AOAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +50%
Funded once
- RIRDC-S111 INCone grant, 2022 · $210k
- LMLOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue +368%
- SCSOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $105k · revenue +160%
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.
Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.
To foster relationships among alumni, students and community by providing services and activities that build loyalty, support and a lifelong connection to the university.
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…
To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
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…
We are committed to breaking the cycle of poverty and creating programs that drive change. by addressing students' basic needs, including food, housing, utilities, transportation, and healthcare, we enable low-income students to enroll,…
Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…
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Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health America of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Wilson High School Golf. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
232 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. 232 of the 263 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CLINIC 'SERVING CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES' ↗
- Who funds Immigrant Defenders Law Center ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WEST ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH NAVY MEMORIAL HERITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Long Beach ↗
- Who funds Long Beach Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds RANCHO LOS CERRITOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH OPERA ↗
- Who funds CITY FABRICK ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TRADE EDUCATION PROGRAMS INC DBA EXP ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE ANGELES ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL THEATRE WEST ↗
- Who funds Scripps College ↗
- Who funds Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE562 NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · Bess J Hodges Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership Inc DBA The Nonprofit Partnership · Keesal Young & Logan Charitable Foundation · Weingart 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 Long 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.
- Western Oregon University Development Foundation — 1% of income from government
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.