· Private foundation
William David Sommerville 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH | $10,000 |
| LAGUNA BEACH FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| LAGUNA BEACH FRIENDSHIP SHELTER | $10,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| SAINT JUDES HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| CHOC | $10,000 |
| GOOD DEEDS FOR BLAKE | $10,000 |
| SALLY'S FUND | $10,000 |
| ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +2%
- GSGRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +14%
- OFORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- SJSAINT JUDE HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $3k
- TSTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +1%
- GHGLENNWOOD HOUSING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -4%
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.
Save Oceanside Sand is a group of local activists dedicated to restoring and preserving the beaches of Oceanside, California. Working with local, regional, state, and federal authorities, our mission is to protect this vital resource by…
The mission of Laurel House (dba Hope Harbor) is providing a home for teens in crisis, transforming lives, and strengthening families. Laurel House has the only long-term youth shelters in Orange County, CA for runaway, homeless and…
Orange County Coastkeeper OCCK is a California non-profit public benefit organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of California marine habitats and watersheds through programs of education, advocacy, restoration, and…
We empower communities around the globe to protect sea turtles, corals, sharks, and the vital marine species and ecosystems they call home through hands-on conservation, education, and sustainable solutions. our team leads reef and beach…
As the only community foundation for the ocean, The Ocean Foundation's 501(c)(3) mission is to improve global ocean health, climate resilience, and the blue economy. We create partnerships to connect people in the communities in which we…
To operate exclusively for the benefit of long beach rescue mission, a california nonprofit corporation, and other organizations that are closely related in purpose or function to long beach rescue mission and which are publicly supported…
Provide temporary housing, clothing, counseling services, food and financial assistance for homeless individuals.
The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Operate residences in the community that provide rehabilitation, clinical treatment and support services for mentally ill adults and their families.
The northcoast marine mammal centers (nmmc) mission is to promote the long-term health of marine mammals along approximately two hundred miles of remote coastline in humboldt and del norte counties in northern california. the nmmc does…
The nmmf's mission is to improve and protect life for marine mammals, humans, and our shared oceans through science, service, and education. our vision is to be the leading laboratory in marine mammal science, where critical questions…
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds SALLYS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLENNWOOD HOUSING FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William David Sommerville Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William David Sommerville Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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