How much does McBETH FOUNDATION give?

McBETH FOUNDATION reported 35 grants totaling $2,601,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does McBETH FOUNDATION fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Arts & Culture (17%), Human Services (17%).

Who are McBETH FOUNDATION's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center ($959k), New Vista School ($910k), San Clemente Village ($825k).

Does McBETH FOUNDATION fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does McBETH FOUNDATION accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as McBETH FOUNDATION?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, O L Halsell Foundation, Ueberroth Family Foundation.

Where is McBETH FOUNDATION based?

McBETH FOUNDATION is based in CA.

McBETH FOUNDATION

McBETH FOUNDATION at a glance

· Private foundation

McBETH FOUNDATION

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$175k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.4MArts & Culture$2.6MHuman Services$2.5MAnimals$2.2MEducation$1.2MEnvironment$1.1MYouth Development$825kRecreation & Sports$778kOther$0

02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $6k
$10k–50k9 grants · $190k
$50k–250k24 grants · $2.4M

$75,000

Median grant

States reached

$18M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SAN DIEGO	$175,000
MAKE-A-WISH ORANGE COUNTY	$175,000
READING LEGACIES	$125,000
NEW VISTA SCHOOL	$125,000
SAN CLEMENTE VILLAGE	$125,000
BEYOND BLINDNESS	$125,000
CASA TERESA	$125,000
UNIVERSITY OF CAL - DAVIS	$120,000
PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER	$120,000
LAGUNA CANYON FOUNDATION	$100,000
TERI INC	$100,000
HELPING HAND WORLDWIDE	$100,000
GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT	$100,000
SOUTH COAST SYMPHONY	$100,000
ICEC	$85,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $765k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$17M · 46 repeat orgs$335k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$17M

$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+14%

Still filing today

70%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationHealthOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

FO
FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER
9× · 2017–2025 · $959k · revenue +51%
NV
NEW VISTA SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $910k · revenue +86%
SC
SAN CLEMENTE VILLAGE
9× · 2017–2025 · $825k · revenue +182% · 96% of their budget

Funded once

CF
CTR FOR AUTISM NEURODEVELOPMENTAL D
one grant, 2017 · $35k
CS
CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC F
one grant, 2017 · $25k
AO
AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION
one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Rancho Coastal Humane Society

See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…

Animals

Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals

Spot

SPOT Saving Pets One at a Time is a leading San Diego County all-volunteer rescue organization whose main focus is to save dogs and cats in shelters who are at risk of euthanization and to help other dogs and cats in need as well. In…

Animals

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals

International Guiding Eyes Inc Dba Guide Dogs of America

The organizations mission is to transform lives through partnerships with service dogs.the organization provides professionally trained, expertly matched service dogs and personalized instruction in their care and use to people who are…

Human Services

The California Wildlife Center

The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…

Health

Silicon Valley Pet Project

Silicon valley pet project (svpp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to saving local at-risk shelter pets through rescue, community involvement and education.

Animals

Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals

Southern California Equine Foundation Inc

Providing equine veterinary hospital facilities and support services in the care of injured or sick race horses

Animals

Pawsitive Teams Inc

The mission of Pawsitive Teams is to enhance the lives of individuals with special needs who live in San Diego county by using the skills of highly trained service, facility and therapy dogs.

Animals

Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals

Starfish Animal Rescue

To help abandoned dogs in kill shelters find permanent and responsible loving homes. We support and work with other reputable rescues who support our vision and standards.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ocean Institute; the most unlike its peers is American Legion Post 416 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/43

Grantees still filing

32/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$9,926,864Human Services$2,335,000Arts & Culture$1,926,000Animals$1,321,751Recreation & Sports$893,000Health$655,000Environment$555,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 FoundationCA45× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Angels Baseball Foundation Inc · Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Memorial Health Services Group Return · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization McBETH FOUNDATION funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McBETH FOUNDATION. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home