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The Perfect Moment Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$313kEducation$268kArts & Culture$262kInternational$255kHealth$147kPhilanthropy$101kRecreation & Sports$21kReligion$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELLS FOR LIFE$30,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
SCHOOL POWER$10,100
PRO UNVIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
CARE FOR LIFE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
LPAPA$2,920
EDISON HIGH SCHOOL$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $167k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STAND WITH UKRAINE INC: $50k → 11%WELLS FOR LIFE: $30k → 10%WELLS FOR LIFE: $30k → 10%WELLS FOR LIFE: $25k → 10%WELLS FOR LIFE: $20k → 10%WELLS FOR LIFE: $10k → 10%WISE PLACE: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
OH
CA
UT
VA
AZ
DC
GA
TX
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$943k · 19 repeat orgs$468k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
21

Total granted

$943k
$443k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+14%

Still filing today

47%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • LA
    LAGUNA ART MUSEUM
    7× · 2018–2024 · $199k · revenue +43%
  • LB
    LAGUNA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +44%
  • CF
    Care for Life Inc
    3× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • HS
    Help Start Education Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +26%
  • TO
    TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
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
Life Impact International Inc

Life impact works relentlessly to make a difference in the lives of trafficked, exploited, and at-risk children in thailand, burma, and brazil. through local prevention projects and outreaches, we work to prevent child exploitation,…

International
2
The Sola Foundation

The sola foundation is built on a simple premise: if you can see it, you can be it. sola works to end intergenerational poverty in south los angeles through community development and creating new access to economic and educational…

Youth Development
3
Karuna Foundation

Making distributions to individuals and organizations that advocate for and/or support the wellbeing of animals, our natural environment and all global citizens, particularly by addressing humanitarian crises or deficiencies in nutrition…

Animals
4
Lifewater Inc

Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.

Environment
5
Lanakila Pacific Foundation

Facilitate charitable fundraising and related activities for the benefit of promoting and carrying out the purposes of lanakila pacific.

Human Services
6
Solar Electric Light Fund

Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) provides solar power and wireless communications to the fifth of the world's population living in energy poverty to meet global challenges of food and water scarcity, basic healthcare and poverty. SELF is…

Environment
7
Los Padres Forestwatch Inc

Los padres forestwatch protects the los padres national forest and the carrizo plain national monument through education, advocacy, and when necessary, legal action for the benefit of our communities, climate and future generations.

Environment
8
Laguna Food Pantry

Provide free groceries to individuals and families in need.

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9
Farm2People

Farm2People's mission is to secure local harvests and fight hunger in Greater Los Angeles.

Food & Nutrition
10
Habitat for Humanity International

Building homes for below poverty level individuals

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11
Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Fdn

Assisted with providing logistical, food, water and other necessaries in support of both federal and local law enforcement and emergency responders in various events in the southland providing workshops and materials in support.

Community Improvement
12
Freshwater Project International Inc

To provide water and sanitation to the people of malawi.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laguna Art Museum; the most unlike its peers is El Morro Elementary Pta. 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

20 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. 20 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS: $117,500 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDSTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRISING STAR OUTREACH INC: $48,100 · OtherRISING STAR OUTREACH INCPRO UNVIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherPRO UNVIVERSITY FOUNDATIONBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS: $20,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherLDS CHURCH: $19,700 · Other+18 more: $83,518 · Other+18 moreLAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $199,426 · Arts & CultureLAGUNA ART MUSEUMLAGUNA PLEIN AIR PAINTERS ASSOCIATION: $50,861 · Arts & CultureLAGUNA PLEIN AIR PAIN…+2 more: $12,055 · Arts & CultureLAGUNA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $105,986 · EducationLAGUNA BEACH EDU…Help Start Education Foundation: $100,000 · EducationHelp Start Educa…WELLS OF LIFE INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesWELLS OF LIFE…Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love: $50,000 · Human ServicesStand With Uk…+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesCharityVision International: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCharityVision…Care for Life Inc: $55,000 · PhilanthropyCare for Life…ARMENIA FUND INC: $11,000 · PhilanthropyARMENIA FUND …LANNA FOUNDATION: $23,500 · InternationalCORAZON INC: $10,000 · InternationalOCEANA INC: $16,000 · Environment
Other$564,318Arts & Culture$262,342Education$205,986Human Services$167,500Philanthropy$166,000International$33,500Environment$16,000

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 budgetLAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $199,426 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetWELLS OF LIFE INC: $115,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $105,986 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetHelp Start Education Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCharityVision International: $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCare for Life Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetLAGUNA PLEIN AIR PAINTERS ASSOCIATION: $50,861 over 4y, 12% of budgetStand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANNA FOUNDATION: $23,500 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetOCEANA INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARMENIA FUND INC: $11,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCORAZON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPacific Symphony: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RECORDS INC: $4,555 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL MORRO ELEMENTARY PTA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWISEPLACE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALLYS FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds LAGUNA ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds WELLS OF LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Help Start Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CharityVision International ↗
  • Who funds Care for Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA PLEIN AIR PAINTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love ↗
  • Who funds LANNA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIA FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CORAZON INC ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Symphony ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RECORDS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EL MORRO ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
  • Who funds WISEPLACE ↗

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…Laguna Beach Communit…Macgillivray Family F…Ueberroth Family Foun…The William Jeff and …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Renaissance Charitabl…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Network for Good
Orange County Community FoundationCA22.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Perfect Moment Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Perfect Moment Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    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 43 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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