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Spenuzza-Velastegui Family Foundation at a glance

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Spenuzza-Velastegui Family 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.

$574k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$174k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$890kEducation$229kScience & Tech$124kFood & Nutrition$10kHealth$3kReligion$3k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $154k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $399k
$24,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$173,816
SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS$110,100
DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY$62,800
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY$52,145
ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$49,200
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE$45,000
MISSION PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$25,000
NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION$24,000
PACIFIC SYMPHONY$10,500
THE ORDER OF CONSTANTINIAN ANGELIC KNIGHTS OF ST GEORGE$7,034
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$5,579
MISSION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$3,150
FRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC$2,338
LAGUNA ART MUSEUM$1,000
EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF LA$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $24k → 9%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $192k → 10%LA OPERA COMPANY: $10k → 14%MISSION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%THE ORDER OF CONSTANTINIAN ANGELIC KNIGHTS OF ST GEORGE: $10k → 7%NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS: $525 → 7%ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $139k → 10%EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF LA: $1k → 14%THE ORDER OF CONSTANTINIAN ANGELIC KNIGHTS OF ST GEORGE: $7k → 7%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $131k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $120k → 10%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $110k → 10%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $90k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $86k → 10%SOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC: $51k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $49k → 10%SOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC: $5k → 10%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $6k → 10%ST MICHAELS ABBEY FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%THE NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $52k → 10%PACIFIC SYMPHONY: $11k → 10%PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $45k → 10%DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $63k → 10%DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $63k → 10%DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $49k → 10%DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $12k → 10%LAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $1k → 10%ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $216k → 10%ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $174k → 10%MISSION PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%MISSION PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO FOUNDATION: $23k → 10%MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO FOUNDATION: $14k → 10%ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $8k → 10%OLD MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO: $1k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 9 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$1.7M
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+303%

Still filing today

78%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SC
    Segerstrom Center for the Arts
    4× · 2022–2025 · $523k · revenue +25%
  • SM
    ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $398k · revenue +13%
  • MP
    MISSION PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $87k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • LO
    LA OPERA COMPANY
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • NB
    NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +303%
  • SM
    ST MICHAELS ABBEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
Opera Santa Barbara

See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…

Arts & Culture
2
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
3
Symphony San Jose

To provide orchestral music performances, educational services, and arts advocacy programs to the greater silicon valley region.

Arts & Culture
4
Orange County School of the Arts

We provide an unparalleled arts and acdademic education in a creative, challenging and nurturing environment to a diverse student body passionate about the arts, preparing them to reach their highest potential.

Education
5
Museum of Sonoma County

The museum of sonoma county engages and inspires our diverse community with art and history exhibitions, collections, and public programs that are inclusive, educational, and relevant.

Arts & Culture
6
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture
7
The Santa Fe Opera

To further the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…

Arts & Culture
8
Sunset Cultural Center Inc

To advance the performing arts on the central coast by preserving and stewarding a historic venue for world-class performances and by expanding equitable access to diverse programming, arts education, and community engagement that enhance…

Arts & Culture
9
South Coast Symphony

Founded in 1996, The South Coast Symphony, the unstuffy symphony, is a resident orchestra for South Orange County. The seventy member Symphony services South Orange County's fifteen diverse communities with a professional, accessible and…

Arts & Culture
10
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
11
Hawaii Symphony Orchestra

To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…

Arts & Culture
12
The Laguna Playhouse

The laguna playhouse's mission is to enrich lives through the magic of live theatre, to provide educational opportunities for children and adults, and to create experiences that stimulate cultural and social interaction and inspire our…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Segerstrom Center for the Arts; the most unlike its peers is Mission Preservation 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

12 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. 12 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Segerstrom Center for the Arts: $522,650 · Arts & CultureSegerstrom Center for the ArtsORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $393,700 · Arts & CultureORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $186,500 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTYMISSION PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $86,500 · Arts & CultureMISSION PRESERVATION FOUNDATIONPHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $57,145 · Arts & CultureSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC: $56,200 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $35,500 · Arts & CultureST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $398,026 · OtherST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND EPISCO…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $45,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVIN…THE ORDER OF CONSTANTINIAN ANGELIC KNIGHTS OF ST GEORGE: $17,034 · Other+8 more: $25,754 · OtherNEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC: $2,338 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$1,338,195Other$485,814Education$5,000Housing & Shelter$2,338

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $522,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $398,026 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $393,700 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $186,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $86,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetPHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $57,145 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC: $56,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $24,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPacific Symphony: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Macgillivray Family F…Samueli FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…The Neisser Family Fo…Jewish Community Foun…Farmers & Merchants B…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…
Orange County Community FoundationCA21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · Samueli Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Neisser Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Spenuzza-Velastegui Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spenuzza-Velastegui Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.

    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 22 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-PF 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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