· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LAGUNA BEACH SENIORS | $5,000 |
| FILM MAKERS BAREFEET W MICKELA MALO | $5,000 |
| FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER | $5,000 |
| BALLET PROJECT OC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- MMMORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDAone grant, 2017 · $10k
- LCLAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART DESIGNone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roberta Freeman Cox Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roberta Freeman Cox Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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