· Private foundation
The Joe MacPherson Foundation Inc
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
- $10k–50k15 grants · $365k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Club of Central OC | $800,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of OC | $250,000 |
| Laura's House | $250,000 |
| Pacific Symphony | $250,000 |
| Meals on Wheels | $200,000 |
| Second Harvest of OC | $200,000 |
| Community Action Partnership OC | $100,000 |
| Brackens Kitchen | $100,000 |
| Orangewood Childrens Fdn | $100,000 |
| CASA | $75,000 |
| Pathways of Hope | $50,000 |
| Hoag Hospital Foundation | $50,000 |
| ST Joseph Hospital FDN | $50,000 |
| Maui County Food Bank | $50,000 |
| OC Rescue Mission | $50,000 |
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, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% 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.
35 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 11 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $415k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LHLAURA'S HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +49%
- PSPacific Symphony9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +87%
- OFORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- BAB and C Club of Central Orange Coasone grant, 2022 · $280k
- BABoys and Girls Club Central Orangeone grant, 2017 · $190k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COASTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +108%
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.
Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.
Community of hope's mission is to improve health, end homelessness, and partner with communities to make washington, dc more equitable.
The mission of catholic charities of orange county is to provide service to people in need, promote their voice in society, and to call the church and all people to do the same."
Pomona community health center's mission is to be the medical home for the underserved in our community by providing high quality preventive and primary care health services.
Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…
Community housingworks ("chw or the organization") is a nonprofit california corporation incorporated on june 20, 1988. chw believes that opportunity begins with a stable home. the organization provides and builds life-changing affordable…
Advance the highest quality of home and community-based care.
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…
The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 63 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 LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds Pacific Symphony ↗
- Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brackens Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE ↗
- Who funds Share Our Selves Corporation ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DE LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Working Wardrobes For A New Start ↗
- Who funds ORANGE UNIFIED PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COTTONWOOD DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · The Devto Support Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · St Joseph Health System Foundation · Warne Family Charitable Foundation Co First Foundation Bank · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Orange County's United Way · Argyros Family Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Joe MacPherson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joe MacPherson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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