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Orange County Trial Lawyers Charities

The primary purpose of the orange county trial lawyers' charities (octlc) is to make a positive difference in the quality of life for people within the greater orange county area, focusing on issues related to education, children, survivors of abuse, persons with disabilities, and homelessnes.

$155k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$72kCrime & Legal$39kYouth Development$32kHousing & Shelter$26kFood & Nutrition$6k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $65,950, the rows itemized in this filing. The $154,871 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $88,921 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $54k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$38k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JESSIE REES FOUNDATION NEGU$13,090
OPERATION HELPING HANDS$11,200
OC SPECIAL STOKES$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CAPISTRANO VALLEY$10,000
OCBAR FOUNDATION PROJECT SELF$10,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY$6,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,160
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPERATION HELPING HANDS: $11k → 10%OPERATION HELPING HANDS: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89k · 4 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$89k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • OC
    Orange County Bar Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue +13%
  • OH
    OPERATION HELPING HANDS
    2× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +784%
  • OF
    ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • TF
    Triumph Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue 0%
  • AQ
    A QUARTER BLUE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -72%
  • CF
    CHOC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +10%
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.

1
Children's Healthcare of California

The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…

Health
2
For the Children

To transform lives and communities by providing an array of programs, all directed toward changing the lives of children in the foster care system aimed to prevent academic failure, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, sex trafficking,…

Recreation & Sports
3
Children's Hospital At Mission

To nurture, advance, & protect the health and well-being of children.

Health
4
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
5
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire Inc

Creating and supporting mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of the next generation.

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6
Orange Twins Rescue
Animals
7
America On Track

Serving more than 44,000 Orange County children and families each year, America On Track breaks the cycle of poverty, incarceration, and hopelessness through long-term youth development, education, and life-enhancing programs. America On…

Crime & Legal
8
Orange County Partnership for Young Children

To ensure that every child in orange county arrives at school healthy and ready to succeed. we focus on the early years of a child's life, from birth to five, which is the most critical time in a child's development.

Education
9
Waymakers

Waymakers builds safer communities by helping individuals make their way through conflict and crisis to a place of strength and stability. we redirect youthful offenders, stabilize children dealing with mental health concerns, counsel…

Crime & Legal
10
Orange County Technology Action Network

Octane connects people and ideas with capital and resources to fuel technology growth in orange county. our members represent orange county technology executive leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, academicians, and…

Community Improvement
11
Healthy Smiles for Kids of Orange County

To improve the oral health of children in orange county through collaborative programs directed at prevention, education, access to treatment, and advocacy. we are committed to improve the oral health of children. significant programs:…

—
12
Oc Players League
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Choc Foundation; the most unlike its peers is A Quarter Blue. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Orange County Bar Foundation: $28,000 · Crime & LegalOrange County Bar FoundationORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Crime & LegalORANGEWOOD FOUNDATIONA QUARTER BLUE: $10,000 · Crime & LegalA QUARTER BLUESOCAL TRYKERS CHAPTER OF NATIONAL AMBUCS INC: $23,207 · OtherSOCAL TRYKERS CHAPTER OF NAT…OCS SPECIAL SPOKES CHAPTER OF NATIONAL AMBUCS INC: $10,000 · OtherOCS SPECIAL SPOKES CHAPTER O…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST: $6,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRA…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $5,160 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ORAN…Jessie Rees Foundation: $13,090 · HealthJessie Rees Found…CHOC FOUNDATION: $7,000 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $6,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPIT…OPERATION HELPING HANDS: $21,200 · Human ServicesOPERATION HEL…Triumph Foundation: $12,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CAPISTRANO VALLEY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $6,000 · Food & Nutrition
Crime & Legal$55,000Other$44,367Health$26,590Human Services$21,200Philanthropy$12,000Youth Development$10,000Food & Nutrition$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOrange County Bar Foundation: $28,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSOCAL TRYKERS CHAPTER OF NATIONAL AMBUCS INC: $23,207 over 2y, 16% of budgetOPERATION HELPING HANDS: $21,200 over 2y, 11% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $13,090 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTriumph Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CAPISTRANO VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA QUARTER BLUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $5,160 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Communi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Orange County Trial Lawyers Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Orange County Trial Lawyers Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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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    How do I get to Orange County Trial Lawyers Charities?

    Find your warmest path to Orange County Trial Lawyers Charities 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.

    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 14 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 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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