California · Private foundation
The Perfect Moment 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.
- $91k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations The Perfect Moment Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $91k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $437k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $232k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $150k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $63k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $80k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $156k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $116k | 56% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laguna Art Museum | $199,426 | 7 | 2% |
| Wells of Life Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Laguna Beach Education Foundation | $105,986 | 9 | 3% |
| Help Start Education Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| CharityVision International | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Care for Life Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Laguna Plein Air Painters Association | $50,861 | 4 | 12% |
| Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lanna Foundation | $23,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Oceana Inc | $16,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laguna Art Museum | $199,426 | 7 | 2% |
| Wells of Life Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Laguna Beach Education Foundation | $105,986 | 9 | 3% |
| Help Start Education Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| CharityVision International | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Care for Life Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Laguna Plein Air Painters Association | $50,861 | 4 | 12% |
| Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lanna Foundation | $23,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Oceana Inc | $16,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Armenia Fund Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Corazon Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pacific Symphony | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Laguna Beach High School | $5,500 | 2 | n/a |
| South County Outreach | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Records Inc | $4,555 | 1 | 1% |
| University of Utah | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Friendship Shelter Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| El Morro Elementary PTA | $1,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Wiseplace | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Sallys Fund Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope Alliance Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Puregive | $500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($541k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Perfect Moment Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Laguna Beach Community Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good
How this is measured
About The Perfect Moment Foundation
- How much does The Perfect Moment Foundation give?
- The Perfect Moment Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $90,520 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Perfect Moment Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (19%).
- Who are The Perfect Moment Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Laguna Art Museum ($199k), Wells of Life Inc ($115k), Laguna Beach Education Foundation ($106k).
- Does The Perfect Moment Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Perfect Moment Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Perfect Moment Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Laguna Beach Community Foundation, Macgillivray Family Foundation.
- Where is The Perfect Moment Foundation based?
- The Perfect Moment Foundation is based in CA.
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