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Macgillivray Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$191k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
43
Grants FY2025
38
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
24 to 38
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$58k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Macgillivray Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalAnimalsReligionOther
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
FY2025still arriving43$191k5%
FY202438$162k29%
FY202333$114k15%
FY202232$98k22%
FY202129$121k14%
FY202025$131k24%
FY201930$100k20%
FY201824$143k17%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$467kEnvironment$212kEducation$134kPhilanthropy$88kAnimals$78kYouth Development$76kHousing & Shelter$66kHealth$49kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
NE
VA
MD
DC
HI
MS
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 50 grantees
All grantees of Macgillivray Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Laguna Playhouse$225,50091%
Laguna Art Museum$111,80191%
Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach$74,90091%
Oceana Inc$72,00080%
Friendship Shelter Inc$65,50090%
Newport Beach Public Library Foundation$48,50091%
Ecology Center$41,70090%
Whale Trust$30,00073%
Discovery Science Center of Orange County$30,00030%
Crystal Cove Conservancy$29,50080%
Friends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center$29,00050%
Laguna Canyon Foundation$26,25090%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$25,00070%
Laguna Beach Community Clinic$21,60080%
The My Hero Project Inc$17,25076%
Coast Film Foundation$16,50042%
Laguna Beach Seniors Inc$16,10090%
Laguna Dance Festival$15,50091%
No Square Theatre$12,50033%
Laguna Beach High School Scholarship Foundation$12,00051%
Philharmonic Society of Orange County$8,35070%
The Surfrider Foundation$7,10040%
Lanna Foundation$7,00040%
Laguna Food Pantry$7,00080%
Surfing Heritage and Culture Center$7,00021%
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation$6,00030%
Bellosguardo Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Get Inspired$5,00012%
Human Options Inc$4,05030%
The Collaborative Courts Foundation$3,50041%
Mission Preservation Foundation$3,20060%
Laguna Plein Air Painters Association$3,05031%
National Arbor Day Foundation$3,00020%
Laguna Ocean Foundation$3,00040%
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation$2,20020%
Arms of Love International$2,00020%
Orange County Coastkeeper$2,00020%
Sherman Foundation$1,75010%
Laguna Greenbelt Inc$1,5002n/a
Arts Orange County$1,50020%
Laguna College of Art & Design$1,40030%
The Tahirih Justice Center$1,00010%
Laguna Beach Ocean Lifeguard Foundation Inc$1,0002n/a
Wyland Foundation$1,00010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$1,00010%
Center for Science in the Public Interest$1,00020%
Orange County Museum of Art$1,00010%
Reef Check Foundation$50010%
Global GLOW$3501n/a
Community Art Project$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($240k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Laguna Playhouse: $225,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetLaguna Art Museum: $111,801 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach: $74,900 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetOceana Inc: $72,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Shelter Inc: $65,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNewport Beach Public Library Foundation: $48,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetEcology Center: $41,700 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWhale Trust: $30,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetDiscovery Science Center of Orange County: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCrystal Cove Conservancy: $29,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center: $29,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLaguna Canyon Foundation: $26,250 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLaguna Beach Community Clinic: $21,600 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetThe My Hero Project Inc: $17,250 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetCoast Film Foundation: $16,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetLaguna Beach Seniors Inc: $16,100 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetLaguna Dance Festival: $15,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetNo Square Theatre: $12,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetLaguna Beach High School Scholarship Foundation: $12,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPhilharmonic Society of Orange County: $8,350 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Surfrider Foundation: $7,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLanna Foundation: $7,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLaguna Food Pantry: $7,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSurfing Heritage and Culture Center: $7,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNational Marine Sanctuary Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBellosguardo Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGet Inspired: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHuman Options Inc: $4,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Collaborative Courts Foundation: $3,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMission Preservation Foundation: $3,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLaguna Plein Air Painters Association: $3,050 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNational Arbor Day Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLaguna Ocean Foundation: $3,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAquarium of the Pacific Corporation: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArms of Love International: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOrange County Coastkeeper: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSherman Foundation: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArts Orange County: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLaguna College of Art & Design: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Tahirih Justice Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWyland Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Science in the Public Interest: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrange County Museum of Art: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReef Check Foundation: $500 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 46.

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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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA57.5× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Laguna Beach Community Foundation · The Hanauer Family Foundation · The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation · Roberta Freeman Cox Charitable Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · Samueli Foundation · J Stanley & Mary W Johnson Family Foundation · The William Gillespie Foundation · The Hexberg Family Foundation · The Bassman Family Charitable Trust · O L Halsell Foundation

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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Find your warmest path to Macgillivray 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 Macgillivray Family Foundation

How much does Macgillivray Family Foundation give?
Macgillivray Family Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $190,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Macgillivray Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Environment (16%), Education (10%).
Who are Macgillivray Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Laguna Playhouse ($226k), Laguna Art Museum ($112k), Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach ($75k).
Does Macgillivray Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Macgillivray Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Macgillivray Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Laguna Beach Community Foundation, The Hanauer Family Foundation.
Where is Macgillivray Family Foundation based?
Macgillivray 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 85 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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