California · Private foundation
The Segerstrom Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $673k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Segerstrom Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $673k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $743k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $621k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $702k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $810k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $630k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $689k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $504k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Segerstrom Center for the Arts | $1,112,490 | 7 | 1% |
| South Coast Repertory Inc | $1,025,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Pacific Symphony | $850,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Orange County Museum of Art | $371,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Laguna Art Museum | $227,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Turnaround Arts California | $210,350 | 3 | 22% |
| The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement | $175,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Charles W Bowers Museum Corporation | $155,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Pacific Chorale | $90,000 | 4 | 1% |
| University of California Irvine Foundation | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Segerstrom 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 · 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
How this is measured
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About The Segerstrom Foundation
- How much does The Segerstrom Foundation give?
- The Segerstrom Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $672,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Segerstrom Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (86%), Human Services (4%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are The Segerstrom Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Segerstrom Center for the Arts ($1.1M), South Coast Repertory Inc ($1.0M), Pacific Symphony ($850k).
- Does The Segerstrom Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Segerstrom Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Segerstrom Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation, California Community Foundation.
- Where is The Segerstrom Foundation based?
- The Segerstrom Foundation is based in CA.
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