Does Warne Family Charitable Foundation Co First Foundation Bank accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Warne Family Charitable Foundation Co First Foundation Bank?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, O L Halsell Foundation, Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation.

Warne Family Charitable Foundation Co First Foundation Bank

Warne Family Charitable Foundation Co First Foundation Bank at a glance

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Warne Family Charitable Foundation Co First Foundation Bank

Q: What does Warne Family Charitable Foundation Co First Foundation Bank fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Philanthropy (16%), Health (12%).

Q: Who are Warne Family Charitable Foundation Co First Foundation Bank's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Chapman University ($500k), B S Foundation ($401k), Concordia University Irvine ($400k).

Q: Does Warne Family Charitable Foundation Co First Foundation Bank fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.0MPhilanthropy$1.6MHealth$1.2MHousing & Shelter$543kArts & Culture$524kFood & Nutrition$510kHuman Services$445kYouth Development$407kOther$0

02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $10k
$10k–50k9 grants · $235k
$50k–250k9 grants · $965k

$41,666

Median grant

States reached

$27M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CONCORIDA UNIVERSITY	$200,000
THE AUTISM COMM IN ACTION	$165,000
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND	$130,000
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION	$125,000
CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC F	$100,000
LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOC	$75,000
BRACKENS KITCHEN INC	$60,000
PROJECT HOPE ALLIANCE	$60,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB WESTMINSTER	$50,000
CITY OF HOPE	$41,666
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA	$41,666
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA	$41,666
COMMUNITY ACTION PTSHP OF ORANGE	$25,000
SCOUTING AMERICA OC COUNCIL	$25,000
ARTS AND LEARNING CORP	$25,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $472k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.5M · 58 repeat orgs$732k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.5M

$692k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+20%

Still filing today

60%

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

CU
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
5× · 2018–2022 · $500k · revenue +46%
CU
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE
2× · 2020–2021 · $400k · revenue +33%
TA
THE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION
5× · 2017–2021 · $386k · revenue +39%

Funded once

GO
GREATER ORANGE COMM ARTS THEATER FDN
one grant, 2021 · $145k
LB
LONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +135%
LP
LCMS PACIFIC SW DISTRICT
one grant, 2022 · $50k

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.

The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy

Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy

Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education

California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education

California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech

Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc

Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.

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Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health

The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education

Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Jump and Schout Foundation. 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

67 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. 67 of the 113 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

65/67

Grantees still filing

54/67

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,278,374Philanthropy$1,764,388Education$1,374,856Human Services$579,858Health$525,166Crime & Legal$169,179Arts & Culture$118,946

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.

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 Community FoundationCA37× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Decorative Arts Society · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · St Joseph Health System Foundation

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 Warne Family Charitable Foundation Co First Foundation Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Warne Family Charitable Foundation Co First Foundation Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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