Jaffe Family Foundation - Agy
Laguna Beach, CA · EIN 45-0493621. Reported 71 grants totalling $10.7M to 38 recipients across tax years 2021-2023. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Jaffe Family Foundation - Agy checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
4 of the organizations Jaffe Family Foundation - Agy funded make grants themselves, and it reported 6 grants totalling $8,805,876 to them. That is 85% of the $10.4M of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego | federated giving programme | California | $8,743,876 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
| Jewish Federation of Orange County | federated giving programme | California | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
| United Way Miami Inc | federated giving programme | Florida | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | Its form does not ask |
| Orange County Community Foundation | community foundation | California | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $7,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $8,743,876.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $8,743,876 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eco Center Inc | San Juan Capistrano, CA | $581,236 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Orangewood Foundation | Santa Ana, CA | $315,000 | 5 | 2 | 2022 |
| City of Hope | Duarte, CA | $225,000 | 5 | 2 | 2022 |
| Congregation Shir Ha-Ma Alot | Irvine, CA | $212,785 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Laguna Beach | Laguna Beach, CA | $88,000 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| National Outdoor Leadership School | Lander, WY | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Human Options Inc | Irvine, CA | $80,000 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Oceana Inc | Irvine, CA | $55,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Agroecology Network | Santa Cruz, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Cancer Fund | Spokane, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | San Diego, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Federation and Family Services of Orange County | Irvine, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dolphins Cycling Challenge Inc | Miami Gardens, FL | $21,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Horsepower Therapeutic Riding | Elburrn, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of Miami-Dade Inc | Miami, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chapman University | Orange, CA | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dance Downtown La Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Down for Dance | Newport Beach, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hoag Hospital Foundation | Newport Beach, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marina Shul-Beit Menachem | Venice, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Directions for Women Inc | Costa Mesa, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Samueli Academy | Santa Ana, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc | Irvine, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Segerstrom Center for the Arts | Costa Mesa, CA | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Chp 11 99 Foundation | Fullerton, CA | $3,009 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | Los Angeles, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ryman Carroll Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Impact Giving | Laguna Beach, CA | $2,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mountain Rescue Aspen Inc | Aspen, CO | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Orange County Community Foundation | Newport Beach, CA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Challenge Aspen | Snowmass Village, CO | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Los Angeles South Hope Foundation | Carson, CA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Glennwood Housing Foundation | Laguna Beach, CA | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation | Chicago, IL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sally's Fund Inc | Laguna Beach, CA | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Cancer Society Inc - Culver City Office | Culver City, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
18 of 38 (47%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 33%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- City of Hope
FUND-A-NEED - RESTRICTED TO QC-PRESIDENT'S VENTURE FUND- 2022 QC HOPE GALA - Congregation Shir Ha-Ma Alot
"MAKING DREAMS COME TRUE" CAPITAL CAMPAIGN(5 YEAR GRANT $100,000/YEAR) - Orangewood Foundation
SAMUELI ACADEMY PLEDGE(5 YEAR GRANT $100K/YR.) - Boys and Girls Club of Laguna Beach
DEVELOPMENT OF "T HE DREAM PLAY YARD" SKATE PARK CONVERSATION - National Outdoor Leadership School
TO SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIPS PER THE PLEDGE FORM/STEP FORWARDCAMPAIGN - Human Options Inc
SPRING GALA - SERIOUS FUN
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 57 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 33 | $786,383 | $7,000 |
| 2022 | 37 | $1,168,447 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | $8,743,876 | $8,743,876 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
98% of its giving went to organizations in California.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Jaffe Family Foundation - Agy's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 88 Emerald Bay, Laguna Beach, CA, 92651. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
EIN 45-0493621 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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