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SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,541,579 to it, the largest being Henry L Guenther Foundation ($600,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.3M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$182M
14/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Saddleback Memorial Foundation does

Mission

To develop the philanthropic resources necessary to strengthen the ability of saddleback memorial medical center to enhance the health and well-being of individuals, families, and our community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided grant for saddleback memorial medical center's hospice & palliative care services (see schedule I).

    $829,560 spentof which $829,560 as grants
    17% of program spending
  2. Provided grants for saddleback memorial medical center capital items (see schedule I).

    $749,593 spentof which $749,593 as grants
    15% of program spending
  3. Provided grant for saddleback memorial medical center's commission on cancer accreditation initiative (see schedule I).

    $387,592 spentof which $387,592 as grants
    8% of program spending
  4. Other program services consist of grants to saddleback memorial medical center for the following amounts and related programs:anesthesia coverage (emergency dept) - $340,000nurse navigator (cancer services) - $247,812nurse navigator (cancer services-breast center) - $221,386non-rn navigators (breast center) - $185,715nurse navigator (cancer services-lung cancer) - $178,906nurse navigator (spine-joint-rehab services) - $165,250surgical services (general surgery) - $159,765neuro-surgery coverage (emergency dept) - $158,600gastroenterology services (emergency dept) - $126,612nurse navigator (interventional radiology) - $123,746social worker, msw (oncology services) - $120,184licensed social worker for laguna woods 55+ senior program - $117,000neuro-interventional coverage/stroke patients (emergency dept) - $104,177gynecology coverage and services (emergency dept) - $101,250nurse practitioners (cardiac services) - $74,417nurse educator (emergency dept) - $66,333nurse navigator (behavioral health-emergency dept) - $61,967nursing scholarship awards - $60,744senior advocate 55+ program/patient concierge - $50,000nurse navigator (women's health services) - $47,320nurse educator (hospital…

    $2,944,005 spentof which $2,944,005 as grants
    60% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,910,750.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($9.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets 100 ($133M)2018 Revenue 164 ($16M) Expenses 73 ($2.5M) Net assets 105 ($140M)2019 Revenue 31 ($3.0M) Expenses 287 ($9.9M) Net assets 104 ($138M)2020 Revenue 100 ($9.7M) Expenses 94 ($3.2M) Net assets 105 ($140M)2021 Revenue 128 ($12M) Expenses 69 ($2.4M) Net assets 128 ($169M)2022 Revenue 263 ($25M) Expenses 139 ($4.8M) Net assets 121 ($161M)2023 Revenue 42 ($4.1M) Expenses 156 ($5.4M) Net assets 129 ($171M)2024 Revenue 295 ($28M) Expenses 349 ($12M) Net assets 132 ($175M)2025 Revenue 75 ($7.3M) Expenses 233 ($8.0M) Net assets 137 ($182M)
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Revenue (75)Expenses (233)Net assets (137)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $146M to $174M (+19%).

$139M
$146M
$144M
$146M
$174M
$166M
$175M
$179M
$187M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

43% of SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$6.2M
’17
$13M
’18
−$6.9M
’19
$6.4M
’20
$9.9M
’21
$21M
’22
−$1.3M
’23
$16M
’24
−$751k
’25
17
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Matthew Kimmel

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed242524252425302429
Joined·+1+7+3+5+4+11+2+8
No longer listed·08263683
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $81k → $145k.

9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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: $152k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Memorial Health Services Group Return). These are real filings, and they are not money SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’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

SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

37% 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 SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.

39%
largest funder
59%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 46% · 2019 23% · 2020 21% · 2021 84% · 2022 59% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

31% of SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

86% of SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

IL
MI
NV
PA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $568k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve17.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 11%Fundraising 27%

Governance

23
board members
74%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

52%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 15 related entities

  • Memorialcare Select Health Plan · exempt
  • Memorial Medical Center Foundation · exempt
  • Memorialcare Home Health LLC · partnership
  • Beach Surgical Holdings LLC · partnership
  • Memorialcare Innovation Fund LP · partnership

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Questions and answers

Who funds SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,541,579 to it, the largest being Henry L Guenther Foundation ($600,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,541,579 in grants to SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
Henry L Guenther Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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