· Private foundation
Roberta Freeman Cox Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of ROBERTA FREEMAN COX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $30,000 |
| PACIFIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE | $24,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| THE WOODEN FLOOR | $16,000 |
| NRA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| DIAVOLO VETERANS PROJECT | $11,000 |
| LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE | $11,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FOUNDATIO | $10,000 |
| GOD'S PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE | $7,000 |
| BALLET PROJECT OC | $5,000 |
| FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER | $5,000 |
| LAGUNA DANCE FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| FILM MAKERS BAREFEET W MICKELA MALO | $5,000 |
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, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +46% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- SCSegerstrom Center for the Arts8× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +57%
- PJPacific Justice Institute8× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +215%
- LBLAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- ULUKRAINIAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $25k
- LCLAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART DESIGNone grant, 2017 · $10k
- MMMORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDAone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
To promote, produce, and sponsor events and activities that encourage the appreciation, study and performance of the arts.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.
The ojai music festival serves as a creative music laboratory for pioneering new works,championing adventurous programming, and working with today's emerging artists with events during the year and the ojai music festival serves as a…
To perform outstanding classical and modern ballets that set the standard for dancer in los angeles, nationally, and internationally. to passionately pursue innovation and creativity and performance. to change lives through accessible…
LB Cultural Arts Center provides a creative epicenter through exhibition space events and promotion to support artists in the following mediums: visual arts music video and still photography film dance prose and poetry and arts education.
Lace both champions and challenges the art of our time by fostering artists who innovate, explore, and risk. we move within and beyond our four walls to provide opportunities for diverse publics to engage deeply with contemporary art. in…
To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…
Engaging people through provocative meaningful experiences that challenge, connect and inspire. long beach opera produces operas in performing arts venues in long beach and regionally, and produces opera for youth in schools.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement and the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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 35 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 110 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
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 Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds Pacific Justice Institute ↗
- Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FNDN ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA DANCE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH LIVE ↗
- Who funds Ten Mile Lake Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN CLEMENTE MILITARY FAMILY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCAL BALLET SCENE ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · Laguna Beach Community Foundation · The Hanauer Family Foundation · Weaver Family Private Foundation · The William Gillespie Foundation · The Hexberg Family Foundation · The Bassman Family Charitable Trust · The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Engle Family Foundation · Assistance League of Laguna Beach
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 Roberta Freeman Cox Charitable 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.
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% 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.