· Private foundation
The Segerstrom Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $505k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH COAST REPERTORY | $125,000 |
| SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $100,000 |
| PACIFIC SYMPHONY | $100,000 |
| TURNAROUND ARTS | $70,000 |
| VANGUARD-SEGERSTROM CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $60,000 |
| PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| LAGUNA ART MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| UCI FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHARITY GLOBAL INC | $20,000 |
| THE AMERICAN ORCHESTRA EUROPA FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| THE WOODEN FLOOR | $10,000 |
| THE ALL AMERICAN BOYS CHORUS | $10,000 |
| THE MUZEO FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
24 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSegerstrom Center for the Arts7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +57%
- SCSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +1%
- PSPacific Symphony9× · 2017–2025 · $850k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- OCORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2017 · $65k
- VCVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENTone grant, 2021 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
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 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…
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…
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…
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
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…
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…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
The ojai music festival serves as a creative music laboratory for pioneering new works,championing adventurous programming, and working with today's emerging artists with events during the year and the ojai music festival serves as a…
To further the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…
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…
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.
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
How this is measured
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 53 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.
- 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 LAGUNA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA ↗
- 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 FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds Festival of Children Foundation ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALL-AMERICAN BOYS CHORUS ↗
- Who funds CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 Chuck Jones Center For Creativity ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Segerstrom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Segerstrom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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