· Private foundation
The Segerstrom Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $578k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH COAST REPERTORY | $200,000 |
| PACIFIC SYMPHONY | $100,000 |
| SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $75,000 |
| VANGUARD-SEGERSTROM CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $53,250 |
| ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| LAGUNA ART MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| TURNAROUND ARTS | $40,000 |
| BOWERS MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| UCI FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE WOODEN FLOOR | $10,000 |
| OC HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MAYFIELD ACRES OF LOVE | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SCSegerstrom Center for the Arts6× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +57%
- SCSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $900k · revenue +1%
- PSPacific Symphony8× · 2017–2024 · $750k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- OCORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2017 · $65k
- VCVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENTone grant, 2021 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
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…
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…
San carlos children's theater is a non-profit organization committed to educating youth on all aspects of theater production while nurturing creative expression, teamwork and appreciation for the arts
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Slo rep strengthens theatre's cultural influence and enriches the central coast by producing professional theatre, nurturing artists and providing theatre education for children and adults.
Los angeles children's chorus provides choral music education of the highest quality to young people who represent richly diverse racial, economic, and cultural brackgrounds.
Schola Cantorum connects people with the joy of singing through moving performances, educational and community programs, and collaborations with local artists.
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…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement and the most unlike its peers is Chuck Jones Center for Creativity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Symphony ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds CHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CHORALE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACRES OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Festival of Children Foundation ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Anaheim Ballet ↗
- Who funds ARTS & LEARNING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE ALL-AMERICAN BOYS CHORUS ↗
- Who funds Chuck Jones Center For Creativity ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · California Community Foundation · The William Gillespie Foundation · Nlt Foundation Inc · O L Halsell Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Segerstrom Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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