· Community foundation
Orange County Community Foundation
Transforming our community's heartfelt intention into greater impact for good.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 975 grants below total $120,423,780 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $125,278,676 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,854,896 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k104 grants · $747k
- $10k–50k544 grants · $11M
- $50k–250k254 grants · $24M
- $250k+73 grants · $84M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER | $11,021,000 |
| CITY OF ANAHEIM | $10,855,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $10,110,000 |
| PIMCO FOUNDATION | $7,048,098 |
| ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $6,148,428 |
| HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $4,743,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION | $2,122,000 |
| STRUT CARES INC | $1,910,000 |
| NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY | $1,636,509 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY INC | $1,346,542 |
| JUSTFUNDUS | $1,250,000 |
| ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $1,133,000 |
| PRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL INC | $1,020,000 |
| UPWELL TURTLES | $1,005,000 |
| OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC | $750,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $23.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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 +43% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
1297 repeat relationships — 731 still active in FY2025, 566 since wound down; 138 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22M 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
- TPTHE PIMCO FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $61M · revenue +105% · 76% of their budget
- MMMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $25M · revenue +1% · 99% of their budget
- HHHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $19M · revenue +300%
Funded once
- WSWALKING SOFTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20M · revenue +45%
- OCORANGE COUNTY HOUSING TRUST INCone grant, 2019 · $5.0M · revenue -95% · 99% of their budget
- COCHABAD OF LAGUNAone grant, 2024 · $1.7M
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.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
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…
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Center for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Walking Softer. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
1728 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. 1728 of the 2,000 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 THE PIMCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALKING SOFTER ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NARROW GATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds Upwell Turtles ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OCCF SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Human Options Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds ARIZAE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds TOMORROW'S LEADERSHIP COLLABORATIVE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA ART MUSEUM ↗
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: O L Halsell Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · The Devto Support Foundation · Orange County's United Way · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Crean Foundation · Oneoc · Argyros Family Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · Living Legacy Foundation · Samueli 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 Orange County 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.
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- International Youth Foundation — 17% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% 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.