California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA
FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,035,002 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,035,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $9.7M
What Friends of Laguna Seca does
Mission
Restore and revitalize this iconic racing and recreation asset to create the next great world attraction to stand alongside other area economic drivers including: cannery row, the monterey bay aquarium, pebble beach, and carmel by the sea. Preserve the historic racing legacy, and create a path to success, ensuring that laguna seca remains a vital engine to the local economy and our volunteer-driven organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Seamlessly transition operations to fls and immediately begin the process of enhancing and improving services to visitors of lsra, in an abiding sense of duty to the community. We then begin to fulfill the $50 million dollar commitment through revenues derived from donations, net operating income, sponsorships and meaningful new partnerships with motorsports, technology, and local industries.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $6k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Laguna Seca Raceway Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA raised.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
56% of FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.8M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside California, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA?
- FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,035,002 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,035,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $4,035,002 in grants to FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,035,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing