· Private foundation
The Laby 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.
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 $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW WEST SYMPHONY | $30,000 |
| CAMERATA PACIFICA | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| RUBICON THEATRE | $15,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE MASTERS | $4,000 |
| VENTURA BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCAMERATA PACIFICA9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +116%
- FOFocus On The Masters Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +63%
- MOMUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY5× · 2017–2021 · $34k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- GOGROUND OPERATIONSone grant, 2017 · $3k
- OPOJAI PERFORMING ARTS CENTERone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
The Museo De Las Americas is dedicated to educating our community through collecting preserving interpreting and exhibiting the diverse arts and cultures of the Americas from ancient to contemporary through innovative exhibitions and…
Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…
Entertain and engage our community through musical performance and education.
To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.
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.
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra strives to enlighten and inspire the diverse citizenry of Culver City and the Los Angeles area through the presentation of orchestral music concerts, to present works of American composers, and to…
The ventura music festival (vmf) presents and produces live musical performances that inspire, educate, and entertain. vmf is dedicated to providing music educaton to schools k-12 and promotes cultural diversity, artistic growth, and…
To transform the orchestral experience for artists and audiences by building a vibrant community dedicated to the creation and performance of profound, relevant and innovative music
Art matters: we enrich our community by using art as a doorway to deeper insight and connection.
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…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 14 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.
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: Ventura County Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Laby Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Laby Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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