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The Henry T and Elizabeth Segerstrom Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Henry T and Elizabeth Segerstrom Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$230k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$6.6MHealth$75kInternational$50kYouth Development$25k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.2M
$125,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY$230,000
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF OC$225,000
COLBURN SCHOOL$200,000
TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA$200,000
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE$125,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$125,000
FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION$50,000
RYMAN ARTS$50,000
SAVE VENICE$25,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $250k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $230k → 10%LONG BEACH OPERA: $150k → 14%LANG LANG INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $50k → 14%HAMMER MUSEUM: $150k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES: $50k → 14%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $150k → 10%COLBURN SCHOOL: $200k → 14%LANG LANG INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES: $172k → 14%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $120k → 10%THE COLBURN SCHOOL: $197k → 14%THE MARIINSKY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $150k → 17%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $100k → 10%LOS ANGELES OPERA: $150k → 14%THE MARIINSKY FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%SAVE VENICE: $25k → 10%LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $100k → 14%BALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC: $141k → 17%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $75k → 10%COLBURN SCHOOL: $25k → 14%AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: $125k → 17%PACIFIC SYMPHONY: $150k → 10%TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $200k → 14%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $125k → 17%PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $675k → 10%RYMAN ARTS: $50k → 14%BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF OC: $225k → 10%DIZZY FEET FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $200k → 17%PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF OC: $160k → 10%PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $100k → 17%PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF OC: $160k → 10%TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $236k → 14%CARNEGIE HALL SOCIETY INC: $97k → 17%PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF OC: $150k → 10%TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $200k → 14%THE MARIINSKY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $100k → 17%PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $125k → 10%TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $200k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE: $50k → 17%TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $200k → 14%ANDRE SOBEL RIVER OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $200k → 14%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 9 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$4.8M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentInternationalPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • PS
    PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +16%
  • SC
    Segerstrom Center for the Arts
    4× · 2017–2023 · $620k · revenue +57%
  • TC
    THE COLBURN SCHOOL
    3× · 2018–2024 · $422k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • LB
    LONG BEACH OPERAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +53%
  • HM
    Hammer Museum Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue -72%
  • PS
    Pacific Symphonygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +51%
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
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
2
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
3
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc

The orchestra pursues its mission, "to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences which exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation," through the blend of traditional…

Arts & Culture
4
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Arizona Opera Company

Arizona opera elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music - cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home.

Arts & Culture
7
San Francisco Performances Inc

SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.

Arts & Culture
8
Los Angeles Ballet Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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11
Association of California Symphony Orchestras

To provide leadership, knowledge-building, advocacy and connection to expand the vitality and impact of the orchestra and broader music community.

—
12
New York City Opera

New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Opera Company; the most unlike its peers is Hammer Museum Inc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 29 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
10/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $1,495,000 · Arts & CulturePHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTYTURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $1,236,235 · Arts & CultureTURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIASegerstrom Center for the Arts: $620,000 · Arts & CultureSegerstrom Center for the ArtsTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $422,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLBURN SCHOOLTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONAMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES: $222,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $1,201,000 · Arts & Culture+11 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $230,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF…LOS ANGELES OPERA: $150,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES O…METROPOLITAN OPERA: $125,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN …THE MARIINSKY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherTHE MARIINSKY…The Carnegie Hall Society Inc: $97,000 · OtherThe Carnegie …THE KENNEDY CENTER: $50,000 · OtherTHE KENNEDY C…+1 more: $25,000 · OtherTHE MARIINSKY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $75,000 · HealthFOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · InternationalTHE RYMAN-CARROLL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyANDRE SOBEL RIVER OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$5,496,235Other$777,000Community Improvement$250,000Health$75,000International$50,000Philanthropy$50,000Youth Development$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $1,495,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetTURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $1,236,235 over 6y, 21% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $620,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $422,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES: $222,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLONG BEACH OPERA: $150,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetPacific Symphony: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBALLET TECH FOUNDATION INC: $141,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLANG LANG INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc: $97,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE RYMAN-CARROLL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetANDRE SOBEL RIVER OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 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.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…The Annenberg Foundat…National Philanthropi…The J Paul Getty TrustGs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …
California Community FoundationCA15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The J Paul Getty Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 The Henry T and Elizabeth Segerstrom Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Henry T and Elizabeth Segerstrom Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Henry T and Elizabeth Segerstrom Charitable Foundation 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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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