CCF 2008 Annual Report_FINAL - California Community Foundation

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KEEPING ALIVE
THE
AMERICAN
DREAM
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY
FOUNDATION
2 0 0 8 A N N U A L R E P O RT
445 S. Figueroa St., Suite 3400 Los Angeles, CA 90071 T: 213.413.4130 F: 213.383.2046 www.calfund.org
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• Arts & Culture: Advancing our Communities’ Creative Voices
• Charitable Fund Guidelines
• Grant Guidelines
The California Community Foundation meets the most rigorous standards in philanthropy and complies with the National Standards of U.S. Community Foundations, administered by the Council on Foundations, a membership organization of more than 2,000
• Profiles in Giving
grantmaking foundations and giving programs worldwide. This affirms CCF’s commitment
• Solutions: A Journal of the California Community Foundation (Summer 2008)
to financial security, transparency and accountability. The foundation’s competitive
grantmaking includes an open process designed to address Los Angeles’ changing
needs. The seal also confirms the foundation’s history of honoring donors’ wishes — to
ensure healthy, engaged and diverse communities.
This annual report is printed on Endeavour Velvet. This recycled product is FSC certified,
acid free, and contains 25% post-consumer recycled waste.
KEEPING ALIVE
THE AMERICAN DREAM
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
2008 ANNUAL REPORT
During economic uncertainty, charitable gifts to nonprofits decrease and government funding cuts put our most
vulnerable populations at greater risk. As demand on philanthropy grows, the California Community Foundation’s
focus is sharper than ever: we’re investing in long-term solutions that will have the greatest impact while continuing
to respond to increasing human needs.
The American Dream, in which everyone in L.A. County should be given a chance to live a richer and fuller life, inspires
us, our donors and our grantees to work harder and smarter on behalf of L.A.’s neediest populations. We are proud of
our united efforts and invite you to read about how our work impacts one person and one neighborhood at a time, and
ultimately, our collective hope about the future.
Founded in 1915, the California Community Foundation
has become an integral part of Los Angeles history. From
humble beginnings at Security Pacific National Bank, the
foundation has grown tremendously to become a community leader that strengthens Los Angeles communities
through effective philanthropy and civic engagement. By
creating sustainable communities that are healthier and
stronger, the foundation seeks to improve the quality of life
HISTORY,
MISSION
& VISION
for all Los Angeles residents, especially the most underserved populations.
The foundation promotes philanthropy and works with
others to address the key issues facing our communities.
CCF seeks to build a brighter future for Los Angeles County
made up of safe, thriving and diverse communities. By
2015, the foundation will strive to address decent, affordable housing, accessible health care, quality education,
enhanced human development opportunities and the arts.
The foundation will do so by creating innovative and comprehensive approaches, leveraging resources, developing
collaborative partnerships and increasing donor engagement.
CCF Milestones:
• 1980: CCF has $20 million in assets.
• 1986: When the AIDS epidemic begins ravaging the Los
Angeles community, we and our donors take the lead
in addressing prevention, treatment and social services,
funding vital programs that are deemed “too controversial” by government agencies.
• 1997: Peter Drucker, the father of modern management,
names CCF one of the 10 best-managed nonprofits in
the U.S.
• 2000: CCF reaches $530 million in assets.
• 2006: In October, the foundation announces a $200 million bequest from the late philanthropist Joan Palevsky.
Her unrestricted gift is CCF’s largest to date, boosting
our assets to more than $1 billion and doubling our
competitive grantmaking to about $20 million annually.
• 2008: The foundation has $1 billion in assets and
manages 1,500 unique charitable funds.
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
History, Mission & Vision
2
From the Board Chair
4
From the President
5
About the Cover
6
Year End Review
8
Grantmaking Overview
9
Grants
10
Special Grants
21
Funds
25
Legacy Society
42
Financial Summaries
44
Board of Directors
46
Staff
47
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The California Community Foundation exists to support
FROM THE
BOARD CHAIR
The end result all around will be to leverage our dollars
donors and enrich the place we all love. While it’s true that
to maximum effect so that people’s quality of life will
people give in both good and not so good times, the effects
improve. We envision a vibrant and cohesive Los Angeles
of the economic slowdown will cause us to focus even
County made up of safe, thriving and diverse communities.
harder on the difficulties created in financial uncertainty.
In this annual report, we celebrate the lives of people
What better time to remind everyone about what the foun-
who take pride in where they live and work and truly care
dation is and what it does.
about the well-being of their neighbors.
CCF, which turns 100 years old in 2015, is building
Dr. Yanina Queen is one of the many stories told inside
the future of Los Angeles. We would not be able to rise to
these pages. Dr. Queen could have chased a more lucrative
that challenge without the generosity and compassion of
job in the private sector, but instead chose to work as a
thousands of donors.
pediatrician at a community clinic in Inglewood.
• We are the third largest community foundation west
of the Mississippi with $1 billion in assets.
• In 2007-08 we gave out $220 million in grants to nonprofits that serve our neediest populations.
• We are one of Los Angeles’ most innovative investors
in permanent low-income housing.
• We are the largest scholarship fund manager in
Los Angeles.
• We are a national leader in expanding services for
veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
In another story, students in El Monte who walk to
school mapped safe school routes and learned about
urban planning and how city government works.
And Karen Sulpi, a single mother of four on welfare,
turned her life around after moving into an apartment
building renovated by LINC Housing, a CCF grantee. Sulpi
now manages an after-school program.
They are but a few examples of Angelenos who help to
make us one diverse, empowering community. They are
also the most important reason CCF exists and will continue
to be there for all residents of L.A. County, especially the
most vulnerable, now and in the future.
• And we are a major supporter of individual artists in
the region.
Those who will be most affected by government funding
cuts are the people we serve, who benefit from grants given
to nonprofits working in education, affordable housing, the
arts, human services and health care.
While city, county and state governments wrestle with
budget cuts, demand for social services is accelerating.
We have many challenges facing us. How are we
addressing this growing crisis?
We are increasing our focused efforts to help donors invest in solutions that will have the greatest impact. We are
supporting effective policy and advocacy efforts, especially
in the areas of health care and early childhood education.
And most importantly, we are collaborating with partners on
shared goals and interests to avoid waste and duplication.
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— Jane B. Eisner
We are living in uncertain times. But even as we struggle
Our efforts to find innovative solutions to improve the
with economic challenges, we will thrive because we are
lives of L.A. residents is beginning to yield results, whether
coming together to keep the American Dream alive. That
it is providing medical care at a community clinic for a
means continuing to work on long-term solutions to Los
mother’s three autistic children, supporting preschool
Angeles’ most pressing social problems, but also responding teachers working in low-income, underserved communities
to current and changing human needs.
Our mission, and the path to get there, is clear —
strengthening Los Angeles communities through effective
FROM THE
PRESIDENT
philanthropy and civic engagement. This last year, we
in L.A. or funding a program that helps foster youth advocate for themselves and for ways to improve California’s
foster care system.
Our work keeps alive the dream that James Truslow
made progress during a time when skeptics questioned
Adams envisioned during another challenging time in our
the promise of the American Dream. Writer and historian
history, the Depression. His words are even more relevant
James Truslow Adams first used the term in 1931 during
today, especially for the more than three million immi-
the Depression. He wrote that it is “that dream of a land in
grants in L.A. County, including one-third of Los Angeles
which life should be better and richer and fuller for every- adults who are English language learners. Our immigrant
one, with opportunity for each according to ability
initiative to help them integrate into society so we can
or achievement.’’
tap into their full potential — together with a project to
For CCF, the American Dream is a living, breathing tenet
mobilize the skills, talents and experiences of immigrant
that inspires the direction of our work and the work of our
baby boomers — will strengthen the communities where
donors and grantees who serve L.A.’s neediest populations.
they live and work.
Low-income families and individuals will be able to
The following pages reflect our vision for a better L.A.
move into high quality, permanently affordable housing
We’re dedicated to ensuring the American Dream is real-
developed through the innovative work of the Community
ized by building the future of Los Angeles one donor and
Foundation Land Trust. The land trust broke ground on
one grantee at a time.
its first rental development near MacArthur Park, called
— Antonia Hernández
Seven Maples, in June, with an adjacent site, Seven Corals,
expected to begin construction in late 2009.
Through the generosity of donors, thousands of U.S.
veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are getting
direct services like counseling, child care, transportation
and emergency financial assistance.
Fifteen outstanding emerging and mid-career artists won
one-year Visual Arts Fellowships to help them advance to
the next level of their careers. In October we’ll celebrate
the 20th year of these fellowships and our partnership
with the J. Paul Getty Trust in nurturing the creativity of
individual artists in L.A.
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ABOUT
THE COVER
Painting the American Dream
By Frank Romero
Hollywood got it right. When asked to depict the American
Dream what immediately came to mind was the last scene
in the 1995 film based on Walter Mosley’s novel, “Devil
in a Blue Dress,” which showed a neighborhood in South
Central Los Angeles. I thought about my own experiences
growing up in the Boyle Heights district of Los Angeles in
the 1950s. For me, this was a neighborhood with a wide
street and very little traffic where children played football
and rode their bicycles.
The streets were lined with palm trees, which had been
planted for the 1932 Summer Olympics. Such a scene
has always been the American Dream in postwar America.
People owned their own homes, tended their lawns and
gardens and raised a family. Many of the houses in these
neighborhoods were actually Craftsman Bungalows circa
1910 to 1930 and were sold in the 1950s for $10,000 to
$30,000. It was a wonderful and affordable place to live.
The American Dream has not changed but in these economic times it has become almost a fantasy, unattainable
for most Americans without assistance.
Painter Frank Romero’s work depicts the changing culture
of L.A.: the architecture, urban myth and contradictions.
He has produced many of the murals throughout the city,
including “1984 Going to the Olympics” on the 101 freeway;
a mural at the first metro rail station at Wilshire and Normandie; and a 60-foot mural for the Los Angeles Natural
History Museum Exhibition, “L.A.: Light, Motion, Dreams.”
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CONTRIBUTIONS: The California Community Foundation
FORECLOSURE CRISIS: The foundation invested $1.4
received nearly $152 million in contributions.
million to help low-income homeowners. Grants will sup-
GRANTS: We awarded more than $220 million in grants
port the hiring of more housing counselors and attorneys
to outstanding nonprofits in Los Angeles County, across
at service agencies; research that shows how at-risk
the country and worldwide through our foundation directed
borrowers are getting help to make informed decisions
and donor advised funds.
and prevent foreclosure; and raising awareness about
AFFORDABLE SENIOR HOUSING: The Community
YEAR END
REVIEW
Foundation Land Trust broke ground on Seven Maples, a
57-unit affordable housing project for low-income seniors
near MacArthur Park. Seven Corals, the second phase of
this community, is expected to break ground in late 2009.
Seven Corals will offer 68 units of affordable family
housing. Both complexes will be “green’’ with rooftop
solar panels and water- and energy-conserving fixtures.
mortgage loan fraud and predatory practices. The effort
will create about 58 new housing counselor positions
statewide, helping at least 16,000 of the 40,000 lowincome homeowners counseled over the next two years to
avoid foreclosure. The funding also will help nearly 3,000
homeowners in L.A. County struggling with mortgage loan
fraud get legal assistance, counseling and representation
over the next two years.
Recycled materials and local suppliers will be used
SCHOLARSHIPS: As the largest scholarship fund
wherever possible.
manager in L.A., CCF awarded more than $3.7 million in
INTEGRATING IMMIGRANTS INTO OUR
COMMUNITIES: The foundation commissioned a report
by the Migration Policy Institute, “Los Angeles on the
scholarships to 1,700 L.A. County students. CCF administers more than 150 scholarship funds worth $85 million.
The average award is $2,100.
Leading Edge.” The report found that increased access to
English language and civics instruction and greater workplace acceptance of immigrants’ foreign educational and
professional credentials would speed and
improve their job and career mobility. CCF also funded
a more localized report by the University of Southern
California called “Immigrant Integration in Los Angeles.”
The Fred J. Aves Vocational Education
Fund is CCF’s largest scholarship fund.
In 1998, inventor Fred Aves left
It recommended that funders convene and develop
leadership around immigration issues; frame information to present immigration as a solution rather than a
problem; invest in replicable models and shape public
policy that can help to integrate immigrants into the so-
$9.1 million of his estate to the foundation to support young people pursuing
vocational careers. Today the fund
cial, civic and economic fabric of Los Angeles County.
NEW FUNDS: Donors opened more than 100 new funds,
bringing the total number of foundation funds managed
to 1,500.
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is worth $23 million and in 2007-08
awarded $538,000 in scholarships.
The California Community Foundation accepts grant
Additionally, the foundation implements a number of
proposals year-round from nonprofit organizations. The
special grant programs with distinct funding priorities and
foundation’s board of directors reviews competitive grant
timelines. These programs include the Dolphin Change
proposals three times a year and CCF notifies applicants
Fund, the FEDCO Charitable Foundation, the Long Beach
immediately following board determinations.
Navy Memorial Heritage Association Fund and the Thelma
Eligible organizations are those seeking to meet an iden- Pearl Howard Foundation.
tified community need and match the goals, objectives
GRANTMAKING
OVERVIEW
For more information on our grant programs, go to www.
and priorities of the foundation. The foundation’s priority
calfund.org or call (213) 413-4130. The Web site includes
areas are arts, education, health care, human development
competitive grantmaking guidelines and electronic ap-
and neighborhood revitalization.
plication materials that you can download.
Following are the foundation’s goals in each priority area:
ARTS: Increase participation in the arts among
low-income, diverse, ethnic individuals and communities
and strenghten individual artists and small-to-midsize arts
and cultural organizations, particularly those located in
low-income and underserved communities.
EDUCATION: Improve school readiness and K-5 student
performances in reading and math and support partnerships among schools, districts, teachers and parents that
demonstrate a commitment to this goal.
HEALTH CARE: Improve access to regular, sustainable
and affordable sources of quality health care for lowincome adults and children, with a focus on community
clinics and uninsured individuals.
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: Increase self-sufficiency
among aging adults and youth coming out of the foster
care system.
NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION: Increase access
to affordable housing, and efforts that emphasize multiservice, geographically-focused approaches to improve
conditions in underserved neighborhoods.
The foundation also makes program related investments
to community development financial intermediaries that in
turn make loans to nonprofit organizations within each program area to extend the reach of the foundation’s competitive grants. These investments include low-interest loans
and loan guarantees for charitable purposes.
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These Los Angeles mid-career artists
have seven or more years of professional experience in their field and each was
awarded a $20,000 one-year fellowship.
For more than 90 years, the California Community Foundation has recognized, encouraged and supported the Southern California arts community by funding
and nurturing a full range of artistic expressions. The Fellow-
DAVE HULLFISH BAILEY
Multimedia/Interdisciplinary
JUDIE BAMBER
Painting
ships for Visual Artists support the work of active, emerging
GRANTS
and mid-career artists in Los Angeles County and strengthen
the arts as a vital building block of our community – a medium to reflect the community’s rich diversity.
Since 2000, the foundation has distributed more than
$10 million to support the arts, with $1,160,000 awarded
to outstanding individual artists. The California Community
Foundation Fellowships for Visual Artists draw together the J.
Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, the Brody Arts Fund,
the Atlass Fund, the Joan Palevsky Endowment for the Future
of Los Angeles and other foundation funds.
ALLAN DESOUZA
Photography
RICHARD HAWKINS
Collage
HIROKAZU KOSAKA
STEVEN RODEN
LINDA STARK
Painting
The 2008 fellows were selected by a distinguished
panel of local artists, curators and arts experts. The panel
included: Lauri Firstenberg, Ph.D., founder and curator/director of LA><ART; Miki Garcia, executive director, Santa Barbara
Contemporary Arts Forum; Mark Steven Greenfield, artist and
director, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery for the Department of Cultural Affairs; Dan Kwong, award-winning solo performance artist, writer, teacher, playwright, visual artist and
2004 Fellowships for Visual Artists recipient; and Monica Ma-
TAM VAN TRAN
Drawing
MARY K. WEATHERFORD
Painting
CHARLIE WHITE
Photography
TAKAKO YAMAGUCHI
Painting
joli, artist, 2002 Fellowships for Visual Artists recipient and
assistant professor in studio art at U.C. Irvine.
FELLOWSHIPS
FOR VISUAL ARTISTS
These Los Angeles emerging visual
artists have up to seven years of
professional experience in their field
and each was awarded a $15,000
one-year fellowship.
DAN BAYLES
Painting
CARLEE FERNANDEZ
Sculpture
JULIE LEQUIN
SHANA LUTKER
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Support Helps Artist Expand Her Work
Joan Takayama-Ogawa is thinking big. “I went from making teapots to being able to make
Based in Pasadena, Takayama-Ogawa’s work is part of the permanent collections of
large-scale public installation pieces,” said the ceramic artist, who bought a new kiln after
the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the
receiving a $7,000 grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI).
Oakland Museum of California and the Racine Art Museum.
CCI, a grantee of the California Community Foundation, supports individual artists like
Takayama-Ogawa by providing business workshops, loans and grants.
With ancestors who were ceramists in Japan since the 15th century, Takayama-Oga-
Takayama-Ogawa is able to advance her work with CCI’s help. At the center’s Business
of Art workshops, she learned how to get more exposure through Internet strategies and
how to create a living trust so her art is displayed and distributed the way she wishes after
death. “CCI is completely dedicated to helping artists,’’ said Takayama-Ogawa, 53, who is
wa’s talent is inherent. But her art is uniquely her own.
As a long-time environmentalist, Takayama-Ogawa’s recent collection combined halfeaten tea cakes with bugs on delicate china to symbolize society’s sometimes overindul-
creating a Web site to showcase her work. “CCI doesn’t give handouts, they give a hand up”
so that artists can thrive and support themselves through their creative work.
gent and wasteful attitude toward natural resources. Influenced by her Japanese American
Cora Mirikitani, CCI president and CEO, says the foundation stands out from other
ancestry, she has created pieces that incorporate images from the World War II Japanese
funders. “CCF focuses on the arts as a priority, invites a diverse array of grantees to the table
internment camps, warning that people can be imprisoned again because of social fears and
and provides core operating support, which is truly invaluable.”
a legal clause related to a 1944 U.S. Supreme Court case, Korematsu v. United States.
Learn more about how CCF supports mid-size arts organizations to help local artists at www.cciarts.org and www.calfund.org.
“CCF focuses on the arts as a priority,
invites a diverse array of grantees to the table
and provides core operating support,
which is truly invaluable.”
— Cora Mirikitani,
Center for Cultural Innovation
Ceramist Joan Takayama-Ogawa with her new kiln;
By artist, “Made in Pasadena: American Over Consumption,” 2007
ARTS
Goal: Increased participation in the arts among
low-income, diverse, ethnic individuals and communities
and stronger individual artists and small-to-midsize arts
and cultural organizations.
18TH STREET ART CENTER
— $50,000
ARTS FOR LA
— $75,000
FRIENDS OF THE LEVITT PAVILION
— $80,000
ALLIANCE FOR CALIFORNIA TRADITIONAL ARTS
— $50,000
CALIFORNIA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS
— $75,000
LATINO THEATER COMPANY
— $100,000
ANGELS GATE CULTURAL CENTER, INC.
— $75,000
CENTER FOR CULTURAL INNOVATION
— $100,000
OPERA NOIR, INC.
— $50,000
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EDUCATION
Goal: Increased K-5 student performance in language
arts and math among low-income, minority and English
language learners.
SUPPORTING VISUAL ARTISTS
ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY
— $150,000
A three-month exhibition in partnership with the Getty Foundation, “20 Years
Ago Today: Supporting Visual Artists in Los Angeles,” opened Oct. 4, 2008 at
the Japanese American National Museum.
The exhibition features artists who have received the Fellowships for Visual
CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER
— $100,000
FAIRPLEX CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
— $100,000
Artists during the program’s 20-year history and celebrates CCF’s two-decade
partnership with the J. Paul Getty Trust in supporting these artists. The exhibition runs through Jan. 11, 2009
For more information, call (213) 625-0414 or visit www. janm.org.
FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS
— $200,000
FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY
— $100,000
JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
— $150,000
KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER
— $100,000
The foundation awarded more
than $600,000 to nonprofits
serving residents in San Fernando
LONG BEACH DAY NURSERY
— $100,000
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
— $100,000
Valley, comprising 11% of our
competitive grants. These
organizations provide services in
affordable housing, art, education,
health care and capacity building.
PARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION
— $150,000
PROJECT GRAD LOS ANGELES
— $150,000
SPRINGBOARD FOR IMPROVING SCHOOLS
— $200,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA
— $150,000
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CCF awarded $486,050 in grants to 22 El Monte nonprofit organizations
UCLA SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
— $200,000
from October 2007 to June 2008 as part of the Community Building
Initiative (CBI), a 10-year, $10 million initiative that seeks to revital-
URBAN EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
— $100,000
ize the city of El Monte located just east of downtown Los Angeles. The
YWCA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES
— $100,000
organizations work in the areas of education, health, human services,
civic engagement and neighborhood improvements. For more
information about this initiative, go to www.calfund.org/CBI.php.
“CCF is a respected voice in the community
and having its support validates our work.”
— Brian C. Johnson, Teach for America
Getting Students
Ready for
Kindergarten
When preschool teacher Stefanie Mihm
spected voice in the community and having its support validates our work,” said Los Angeles
first met Matt*, he was an angry 3-year-
Executive Director Brian C. Johnson.
old. Abandoned by his mother as a baby
A graduate of the University of Southern California, Mihm found her calling in high
and raised by his father, Matt always acted
school when she went to the Dominican Republic to teach 3 to 15-year-olds during a six-
out — until Mihm took a direct approach. “I
week summer camp. While at USC, she continued volunteering at the neediest schools in
asked him what he wanted,” she said. “All
Los Angeles.
he wanted was a hug. He never got hugs
In 2007, as part of the first group of TFA preschool teachers in L.A., Mihm helped de-
at home.’’ Mihm wrapped her arms around
velop and test teaching models that fit students’ learning styles and levels. For instance, she
him, helping to heal his bruised core. He
made learning interactive by attaching movements to words that began with a letter of the
soon began to do better academically in
alphabet. The youngsters learned that “P” is for “popcorn” and jumped around like popped
preschool.
kernels. “By the end of the school year, all my students knew at least 10 or more letters,”
Mihm, 23, is in her second year with
Teach for America, a national organiza-
Mihm said proudly of her students at the Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment (PACE)
Stefanie Mihm and student.
tion that works to eliminate educational
Headstart in South Los Angeles, where she encountered the 3-year-old Matt. She looks
forward to returning to the school this fall.
inequities. Although more commonly known for training K-12 teachers, TFA began an early
Learn how organizations that CCF supports are helping children from pre-
childhood education initiative in Washington D.C. in 2006 to raise achievement among low-
school through fifth grade be successful in school at www.teachforamerica.org and
income students in underserved communities.
www.calfund.org.
TFA has been a California Community Foundation grantee since 1993. “CCF is a re-
*Fictional name used to protect child’s privacy.
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Mother Sees Bright Future
for Autistic Kids
Karen Hernandez would break down emotionally whenever she thought about how her three
autistic children might need 24-hour care the rest of their lives. Not only did they have trouble
communicating and interacting socially with others, they were also constantly sick.
It was difficult getting adequate health insurance and medical care because of their special needs. Then she went to the Children’s Clinic, a nonprofit community clinic in Long Beach
that provides multilingual services in general and specialty pediatric care.
Hernandez’s outlook is brighter and she credits the clinic for her children’s progress. Before
the clinic’s help, Angel, 8, didn’t know how to react to people and dismissed them. Christian, 7,
couldn’t speak at all. Celeste, 3, had delayed speaking skills and trouble playing with kids.
They were able to get proper treatment after Dr. Elisa Nicholas diagnosed them with
asthma and taught them about inhalers and household items that trigger asthma attacks. Dr.
Nicholas, the clinic’s president and CEO, also
The California Community Foundation
encouraged Hernandez to integrate her children
with non-autistic kids to improve their communication and social skills. The children now attend schools that have placed them in traditional
classes and are attentive to their special needs.
awarded 53 one-time grants totaling
$5 million to organizations working in
multiple areas of interest, including
“Dr. Nicholas actually listened to our concerns,’’ Hernandez said. “She understood what
we were going through emotionally.” With
strong primary care, speech therapy and other
forms of support, the Hernan-
“The California Community Foundation
stands out because it collaborates with
nonprofit organizations, and offers
support and educational resources that
help us do our work better and boost the
well-being of local residents.”
dez children are healthier, have
— Dr. Elisa Nicholas, Children’s Clinic
ten because I don’t think it’s fair
increased their vocabulary, are
comfortable
interacting
with
non-autistic kids and are doing
well in school. Said Hernandez:
“I still break down every so of-
that my kids are challenged so
much, but with support from Dr. Nicholas and my family, I’m positive that my children will learn
how to live independently.”
Dr. Nicholas said, “The California Community Foundation stands out because it collaborates with nonprofit organizations, and offers support and educational resources that help us
do our work better and boost the well-being of local residents.”
Learn more about how organizations that CCF supports are helping families obtain
quality health care at www.thechildrensclinic.org or www.calfund.org.
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medical research, family planning
services to teens, multiple sclerosis,
disabled persons, adult day care centers,
boys and girls clubs, Santa Barbara parks
and the spaying and neutering of pets.
HEALTH CARE
The Centinela Medical Funds seek
Goal: Improved access to regular, sustainable source of
quality health care for low-income children and adults.
to ensure that children and adults have access to timely
and affordable sources of quality health care services.
CHILDREN’S CLINIC
— $100,000
The funds support eligible hospitals and communitybased organizations that provide direct services and
health education to low-income and medically under-
COMMUNITY CLINIC ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES
— $150,000
served residents of Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lennox,
Watts, El Segundo, Compton, Lawndale and designated
areas of South Los Angeles. Priorities include: enhancing
access to primary, specialty, diagnostic and inpatient
care, mental health and dental services for uninsured
patients; prevention, education, early detection and
control of chronic medical conditions and diseases; and
increased enrollment and retention of low-income adults
and children in health care coverage. Applications are
solicited through a separate Request for Proposals (RFP)
process. Go to www.calfund.org for more information.
The Centinela advisory board sets funding priorities, reviews grant requests and makes funding recommendations to the California Community Foundation’s board of
directors annually.
AIRPORT MARINA COUNSELING SERVICE
— $42,000
ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION CALIFORNIA
SOUTHLAND CHAPTER
— $50,000
CENTINELA
MEDICAL
FUNDS
THE CHILDREN’S DENTAL CENTER
— $75,000
COALITION OF MENTAL HEALTH
PROFESSIONALS, INC.
— $80,000
DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES
— $80,000
GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL
— $2,001,256
COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE OF PASADENA
— $125,000
COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS, INC.
— $160,000
KOREAN HEALTH EDUCATION, INFORMATION &
RESEARCH CENTER
— $125,000
SOUTH BAY FAMILY HEALTHCARE CENTER
— $300,000
UNIVERSITY MUSLIM MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
— $150,000
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC
— $128,000
LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY HEALTH
FOUNDATION
— $2,299,072
ASSOCIATION OF BLACK WOMEN PHYSICIANS
— $47,800
SAINT FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER
FOUNDATION
— $250,000
BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS
— $50,000
SOUTH BAY FAMILY HEALTHCARE CENTER
— $700,000
CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER C.O.A.C.H.
FOR KIDS AND THEIR FAMILIES PROGRAM
— $750,000
UNIVERSITY MUSLIM MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
(UMMA)
— $125,000
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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Goal: Increased self-sufficiency for aging adults and youth
coming out of the foster care system.
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
— $100,000
Youth Finds Stability
in Foster Care
As a young woman of 22, Porschea Williams
might be called a seasoned advocate for improv-
CALIFORNIA YOUTH CONNECTION
— $80,000
ing California’s foster care system. “It makes me
feel good to know that what we’re working on
CASA COLINA CENTERS FOR REHABILITATION, INC.
— $175,000
now will affect younger foster youth,” said Williams, a foster child herself when her mother left
her 20 years ago.
GREATER LOS ANGELES AGENCY ON DEAFNESS, INC.
— $100,000
Williams is a volunteer at the Los Angeles
chapter of the California Youth Connection, a
INSIGHT CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
— $100,000
PARTNERS IN CARE FOUNDATION, INC.
— $100,000
statewide organization and grantee of the California Community Foundation that advocates for
a better foster care system and develops leadership of foster youth.
In 2005, Williams helped sign into law a state bill requiring social workers to help foster
youth maintain relationships with supportive adults and giving youth the right to be involved in
planning for their life and well-being after foster care.
THE SALVATION ARMY
— $200,000
VALLEY VILLAGE
— $50,000
Like many foster youth, Williams didn’t find stability until she left foster care at 18. “I got
into a lot of trouble when I was younger,” said Williams, who lived in five different homes by
the time she entered high school. “I was angry most of the time because I had to move around
and live with people I didn’t know.” In 2001, she was introduced to CYC through an L.A. Countysponsored independent living course.
WISE & HEALTHY AGING
— $235,000
CYC helped her advocate for other foster youth, which grew out of learning to advocate
for herself. “I always wanted to speak up for myself when I was younger but I never knew
how. CYC gave me the confidence to do that while keeping my cool,” said Williams, a nursing
assistant with two toddlers studying to become a nurse.
Learn more about how organizations that CCF supports are helping former foster youth
like Williams take control of their lives at www.calyouthconn.org or www.calfund.org.
“I always wanted to speak up for myself when I was
younger but I never knew how. CYC gave me the
confidence to do that while keeping my cool.”
— Former foster child Porschea Williams
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The California Community Foundation raised $2.17 million through the Southern California Wildfire
Relief Fund to support recovery efforts in parts of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino
and San Diego Counties ravaged by the October 2007 wildfires. The funds supported intermediate
recovery efforts focusing on needy populations and nonprofits that service the affected areas.
Thus far, CCF has distributed $2,166,050 in grants, including $1,841,050 to 20 Southern California
organizations, as well as $325,000 in block grants to the San Diego and San Bernardino/Riverside
Community Foundations for regranting into their respective communities.
As a full-time nanny on welfare and a single mother of four, Karen Sulpi borrowed money to
LINC improved Sulpi’s building, the Village at Beechwood, by reinforcing the security sys-
make ends meet. Debt ridden with no place to live, she and her children moved in with her
tem, incorporating environmentally friendly elements and creating welcoming community
brother in 1992. Nine years later when he sold his home to move to San Diego, Sulpi had to
spaces. LINC also supports its residents through after-school programs for children, financial
find a place she could afford, so she moved her family into an apartment complex in a crime-
management workshops and health and well-being workshops. In 2006, LINC hired 47-year-
infested Lancaster neighborhood.
old Sulpi to manage an onsite after-school program. She combines classroom learning with
Sulpi witnessed a few fights outside the property and soon “the police raided the build-
hands-on projects like planting vegetables and fruits in the community garden. Her three
ing because they suspected gang activity.’’ When LINC Housing Corporation bought and
adult children, now living on their own, sometimes volunteer at LINC. Sulpi is also a proud
renovated her building in 2002, her family’s life turned around.
LINC Housing, a grantee of the California Community Foundation, is a nonprofit affordable housing developer based in Long Beach that owns properties throughout California. For
more than two decades, LINC has worked with small cities in Los Angeles County, like Whittier, Compton and Lancaster, to increase access to
“The California Community Foundation helps to build its
grantees’ overall equity and net worth by providing the
means to increase our capacity.”
— Hunter Johnson, LINC Housing
affordable housing for low-income working families,
seniors and individuals with special needs.
grandmother of four and is no longer on welfare.
She values the strong sense of community LINC promotes at the Village and can’t imagine living anywhere else. “I just feel at home here,” Sulpi said. Now that she has managed to
provide a good, stable life for her youngest child Josh, Sulpi hopes to work toward a degree
in child psychology or early childhood education.
LINC Housing President and CEO Hunter Johnson said its grant from CCF has helped
make the organization stronger. “The California Community Foundation helps to build its
grantees’ overall equity and net worth by providing the means to increase our capacity.”
Learn more about how organizations that CCF supports are increasing access to affordable housing at www.linchousing.org and www.calfund.org.
Mother Finds Community with LINC Housing
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NEIGHBORHOOD
REVITALIZATION
Goal: Increased housing opportunities for
low-income families.
MANAGEMENT
SUPPORT GRANTS
EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS OF SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
— $100,000
CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT OF
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
— $100,000
HUMAN INTERACTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
— $100,000
LONG BEACH NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIP
— $100,000
LOS ANGELES JUNIOR CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE CHARITY FOUNDATION
— $100,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS
— $125,000
SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS
— $55,613
COALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
— $100,000
EAST LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY CORPORATION
— $100,000
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS, INC.
— $200,000
One of the California Community
Foundation’s four strategic goals is to strengthen
HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION
— $150,000
the nonprofit sector in Los Angeles County. In addition to
providing grants directly to nonprofit agencies, the foundation also funds these nonprofit intermediaries that
HOUSING CALIFORNIA
— $100,000
provide technical assistance and other services to build
the capacity and effectiveness of nonprofit organizations.
LINC HOUSING CORPORATION
— $100,000
LOS ANGELES ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY
ORGANIZATIONS FOR REFORM NOW
— $100,000
LOS ANGELES COALITION TO END HUNGER &
HOMELESSNESS
— $130,000
LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
— $100,000
UNION RESCUE MISSION
– $100,000
WEST HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSING
CORPORATION
– $100,000
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Robertsons Successfully Fight
Foreclosure to Stay in Family Home
Derrick Robertson recalls how he and his wife, Myra, nearly lost their home to foreclosure
eight years ago. “It’s still painful,’’ he said, his eyes brimming with tears. “It was a devastating experience.’’ Thanks to legal services agency Public Counsel, a CCF grantee, the Robertsons celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary this year in the South
Los Angeles home they’ve lived in for 23 years.
The Robertsons, high school sweethearts at Manual Arts Senior
High School in South L.A., have two children and three grandchildren.
In 1984, they bought their three-bedroom house for $80,000, with a
monthly mortgage of $800. Myra, a mail carrier for 18 years, fell and
hurt her back on the job. She went on workers’ compensation.
The Robertsons’ loan turned out to be an
adjustable, high-interest loan with payments
that soared to $1,745 a month. “We about had
a stroke,’’ said Myra, 52. “We tried to pay the
house note, but everything else fell behind.’’
In 2000, a series of events
caused them to nearly lose their
home.
ers’
After
receiving
compensation
work-
payments
for years, Myra was unprepared
when her benefits ended. By
The California Community Foundation
that time, they had refinanced
invested $1.4 million to hire more housing
twice to make home repairs.
As a security guard, Derrick’s
counselors and attorneys at service agencies
monthly salary of $1,000 wasn’t
enough to cover their $1,079
and support research showing that at-risk
mortgage payment and house-
borrowers are getting the help they need. This
hold expenses. An acquaintance
named Larry, whom they knew
Myra and Derrick Robertson with their
grandchildren Jamar and Jamirah.
for several years, offered to help.
Larry, who said he was a real estate broker for 30 years, assured them he could refinance
support will help at least 40,000 homeowners
over the next two years, with about 16,000
the loan at a lower fixed interest rate. “He made a lot of promises,’’ said Derrick, 53.
The Robertsons’ loan turned out to be an adjustable, high-interest loan with payments
that soared to $1,745 a month. “We about had a stroke,’’ said Myra, 52. “We tried to pay the
house note, but everything else fell behind.’’
With Public Counsel’s help, the Robertsons’ case went to mediation and their loan was
of those counseled expected to avoid
foreclosure. The funding to legal services
agencies will enable them to help nearly
rescinded and restructured in 2003. Said Derrick: “We hope our experience will help others
who are going through the same thing get the help they need.’’
3,000 homeowners in L.A. County.
To learn more about Public Counsel go to www.publiccounsel.org. This is just one
example of the grants CCF has made in response to the growing mortgage default and
foreclosure crisis. To learn more, go to www.calfund.org.
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Like many others, Xinia Solis believes that owning a house represents the American Dream.
But the dream nearly slipped away when her husband was laid off in summer 2007.
Solis, her husband, Tony Tirado, their two toddler children and her mother-in-law live in
a two-bedroom, two-bath house in East Los Angeles that the couple bought for $489,999 in
October 2006.
When Tirado lost his contracting job for three months last year, they fell behind on their
Nonprofits serving the
$3,600 monthly payment for two house loans.
“It was terrible,’’ said Solis, 32, a vocational nurse who works in hospice care. “I got
behind on so many bills. It was so much stress because everything was on me.’’ When their
South Bay/Harbor area were
awarded $675,000 or 12% of CCF’s
house went into foreclosure, Solis searched the Internet and found the East L.A. Commu-
competitive grants. The area
nity Corporation, a nonprofit housing agency.
Angelica Rubio, ELACC’s director of homebuyer education, was able to work out a temporary repayment plan with Solis’ lender. “She advocated for us,’’ Solis said. “If it wasn’t for
Angelica, we would have lost the house already.’’
includes underserved
neighborhoods in Carson, El Segundo,
Last year, ELACC launched a free Foreclosure Prevention Program. It includes workshops and counseling to help people who don’t know what steps to take to avoid losing their
Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood,
homes to foreclosure.
“We’re addressing a crisis that is regional,’’ said ELACC president Maria Cabildo. “We
really feel that a house is an incredible stabilizing
force in families. That’s why we try to do everything
possible to keep a family intact.’’
“If it wasn’t for Angelica, we
would have lost the house already.”
— Xinia Solis
To learn more about ELACC, go to www.elacc.org.
This is just one example of the grants CCF has
made in response to the growing mortgage deXinia Solis with son Santino
and daughter Azul.
fault and foreclosure crisis. To learn more about
our priority area of neighborhood revitalization —
providing a stable living environment for low-income families by increasing the supply
of and access to affordable housing in L.A. County, go to www.calfund.org.
Family Keeps Home With Agency’s Help
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Lomita, Long Beach, San Pedro,
Torrance and Wilmington.
SPECIAL
GRANTS
The California Community Foundation works with several
entrance fees as well as classroom materials for projects
special grant programs created to meet the interests of do-
that deepen student understanding in the core disciplines.
nors or partner foundations. Each of these grant programs
The FEDCO Charitable Foundation is continuing its part-
are managed by a supporting organization, an affiliate
nership with three intermediary agencies with one-year
of the California Community Foundation that has its own
grants amounting to $120,000 each, to provide experien-
guidelines, application and review process. Learn more
tial field trips or teacher grants in Orange, San Bernardino
by visiting www.calfund.org. The foundation will, at times,
and San Diego counties. The following organizations were
issue a Request for Proposal to test the effectiveness of
selected based on their previous effectiveness and track
a promising program model or to address an immediate
record, proposed work plan and ability to administer
community-wide issue.
teacher grants in their respective counties: The San Diego
DOLPHIN CHANGE FUND
The Dolphin Change Fund awarded two $5,000 grants to
Foundation; the Orange County Community Foundation;
and Cal Poly Pomona’s College of Science (to benefit San
Bernardino County).
the CLARE Foundation and Common Ground to address
the Santa Monica area. Since it was created in 1994, the
LONG BEACH NAVY MEMORIAL
HERITAGE ASSOCIATION
Dolphin Change Fund has distributed a total of $135,000
Created in 1998, the Long Beach Navy Memorial Heritage
to various nonprofit groups serving this population.
Association preserves the heritage and historic sites and
Applications are solicited by invitation only.
resources of Long Beach, recognizes the contributions of
chronically homeless individuals and homeless youth in
the Long Beach Naval Station and Shipyard to the City of
FEDCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Long Beach and honors the work of architect Paul Revere
FEDCO (Federal Employees’ Distributing Company) was a
Williams. Historical resources include buildings, public
department store chain in Southern California from 1948
landscapes or contributing structures in historic neighbor-
to 1999. When the stores closed in 1999, the company es-
hoods. To apply, go to www.calfund.org in September 2009
tablished the FEDCO Charitable Foundation at the California
when we will issue the Request for Proposals.
Community Foundation to benefit children and families in
A board of directors leads the association, representing
communities where FEDCO stores were located. The FEDCO
four expert Long Beach historic preservation organiza-
Charitable Foundation provides small grants to full-time
tions: the Cultural Heritage Commission, Historical Society
public school teachers serving students in grades K-12
of Long Beach, Willmore City Heritage and Long Beach
in five school districts: ABC/Cerritos, Culver City, Norwalk
Heritage.
La Mirada, Los Angeles Unified and Pasadena. Priorities
The following grants were made:
include hands-on, classroom or “real-world” field trips that
encourage experiential learning, enhance student understanding and increase student achievement in language
arts, mathematics, science or social studies. To apply, go
to www.calfund.org in September 2009 when we will issue
ST. JOHN MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
— $50,000
CSULB ADVANCED MEDIA PRODUCTION
— $50,000
the Request for Proposals.
The FEDCO Charitable Foundation approved 150 grants
totaling $242,616 in Los Angeles County. Funds primar-
HISTORY SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH
— $40,000
ily supported field trip costs such as transportation and
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Kids Learn to Design a Safer Community
Every day, students who walk to school in the city of El Monte learn to navigate through
neighborhoods that they describe as “dangerous or scary.’’ What they observe on their way
“Few groups are willing to experiment and put
their resources behind the freedom to explore
and to run with it. CCF has an innate ability to
trust a threshold that is not yet verified.’’
— Claire Robinson, Amigos de los Rios
to school: gang activity, vandalism, fast moving traffic, crossing train tracks, stray dogs and
cats, inappropriate adult behavior and homeless people.
The students did something about it, with the help of a unique city design project run
by Amigos de los Rios, an organization that helps cities and communities become healthy,
safe and inspiring. A two-year, $100,000 grant from the FEDCO Charitable Foundation administered by the California Community Foundation helped students in the El Monte City
and Mountain View school districts take ownership of their school routes to make them safer
and fully participate in the democratic process.
From left to right: Students paint imagined improvements to school
routes; student design of a pocket park; creating a sidewalk master
plan; a drawing of a neighborhood; Gidley School student; Amigos de
Los Rios Director Claire Robinson; students celebrating successful
city council presentation.
A total of 1,250 students from four elementary and middle schools took part in the
project from fall 2007 to summer 2008. They asked other students what “the walk to school”
was like. They recorded observations about their communities. They drew maps and plans
of their neighborhood and designed improvements to the sidewalks and small parks. They
learned about city planning and government practices after they presented their recommendations to the city council. “Some of them discovered abilities they didn’t know they had, like
art and writing,’’ said Claire Robinson, director of Amigos de los Rios.
The city government in El Monte is updating the city’s general plan and has allocated
$600,000 this year for community development. The city design project by students will
help the city decide what areas to fix. “City staff appreciated hearing this critical information
about routes to school directly from the students,’’ said Dante Hall, assistant city manager.
“We will use their input to help prioritize our sidewalk improvement efforts.”
A group of mothers pitched in by taking pictures of all the sidewalk cracks on one
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street. “It takes a lot of courage to say they care and they want to do something about it,’’
Robinson said.
The project will continue this school year. By the end of 2009, Robinson hopes to present to the city a master plan for the two school districts on how to improve school routes.
The plan could include adding more trees, plants, native insects and birds and more community spaces like mini parks. An average of about 35 percent of students who walk to the
four schools — Kranz, Madrid, Gidley and Shirpser — will be affected by the improvements.
Robinson also plans on mapping the curriculum into the state educational standards so that
it can be taught in any classroom.
One student’s powerful question, Robinson said, proved to be the biggest lesson
learned by the project. He asked, “Each time the city council makes a decision, do they think
about third graders?’’ Said Robinson: “If the city council had a way to gauge the impact of
its decisions on the lives of elementary students, we’d have a much different world. It’s very
important to connect those voices.’’
Without the support of FEDCO and CCF, this project would not have happened, she
said. Two years ago, the foundation awarded a $25,000 grant to Amigos de los Rios to set
up a field office in El Monte. The FEDCO Charitable Foundation, a CCF supporting organization that provides grants to public schools in Southern California for experiential learning
opportunities, followed with the current grant for the city design project. “Few groups are
willing to experiment and put their resources behind the freedom to explore and to run with
“Each time the city council
makes a decision, do they think
about third graders?”
it,’’ Robinson said. “CCF has an innate ability to trust a threshold that is not yet verified.’’
This example demonstrates how organizations that CCF supports are helping to pro-
– El Monte third-grader
vide “hands-on” experiential learning opportunities for youth and make communities
safer and stronger. For more information, go to www.amigosdelosrios.org. To learn
more about the FEDCO Charitable Foundation, go to www.calfund.org.
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RANCHO LOS CERRITOS
— $25,000
INNER CITY ARTS
— $25,000
V-SQUARE, ART THEATER RENOVATION
— $25,000
INSIDE OUT COMMUNITY ARTS, INC.
— $25,000
LOUISE IVERS
— $17,000
JUST LOVIN MUSIC STUDIOS, INC.
— $25,000
THELMA PEARL HOWARD FOUNDATION
LACER (LITERACY, ARTS, CULTURE, EDUCATION,
RESEARCH) AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM
— $25,000
Founded in 1994 as a supporting organization of the
California Community Foundation, the Thelma Pearl Howard
Foundation was created by Thelma Pearl Howard, Walt Disney’s housekeeper for 30 years, to benefit disadvantaged
LOS ANGELES OPERA
— $35,000
and homeless children in Los Angeles County. The Thelma
Pearl Howard Foundation is administered by CCF and has
an independent board of directors. This year, grants totaling $429,000 were made to 18 organizations that offer
quality arts-based educational enrichment activities.
Visit www.calfund.org in February 2009 to obtain the
grant application.
A PLACE CALLED HOME
— $25,000
ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS
— $25,000
DEAF WEST THEATRE COMPANY
— $25,000
DRAMATIC RESULTS
— $25,000
GABRIELLA AXELRAD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
— $25,000
HARBOR INTERFAITH SERVICES
— $14,625
HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH, INC.
— $25,000
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PARA LOS NIÑOS
— $25,000
PUENTE LEARNING CENTER
— $25,000
SANTA CECILIA OPERA AND ORCHESTRA
— $25,000
STONE SOUP CHILD CARE PROGRAMS
— $25,000
The California Community Foundation has a long history
• Field of interest funds allow you to support
of helping individuals, families, corporations and non-
organizations that address the issues you care about
profit organizations achieve their charitable goals. We are
most. Choose a cause (or causes) close to your heart, a
presented with many financial gifts and opportunities and
geographic area or population, such as disadvantaged
there are many potential solutions that meet the needs of
youth in South Los Angeles or underserved women in San
the donor and the community.
Gabriel Valley, and let the foundation’s professional staff
Our donors established more than 100 new funds this
year, totaling 1,500 active funds that support a variety of is-
FUNDS
sues to help create a healthier and more vibrant community.
HOW TO GIVE
We make philanthropy a deeply personal experience
by providing the flexibility and efficiency for donors to
achieve their individual charitable goals. Our expertise
and personalized service make giving easy and tailored
DID YOU KNOW...
A donor advised fund at CCF is an attractive alternative to a private foundation. If you’re thinking of
closing your private foundation because of all the
to donors’ needs. We accept a wide variety of assets to
create a fund at the foundation: cash, securities traded on
• Deduction taken up to 30% of adjusted gross
income for gifts of publicly traded stock.
• Exempt from annual minimum distribution
requirements.
background or education level. You can select scholars
based on neighborhoods or schools where they’re from,
the schools they will attend, their level of financial need
and academic course of study, such as nursing or teaching. We ask that the opening balance be at least $50,000.
customized financial and charitable solution to meet
interests, to name a few.
your needs. No matter the type of fund, CCF continues to
We offer many different types of funds. Here are five
• CCF Priorities fund allows you to support CCF’s
income for cash gifts.
• Scholarship funds can benefit students of any age,
retirement plan assets, real estate, privately held business
opening a donor advised fund at CCF:
• Deduction taken up to 50% of adjusted gross
or more specific organizations.
These are the basic types of funds. We can create a
basic types:
estate or closely held stock.
• Restricted funds are ideal if you want to support one
major exchanges, closely-held stock, mutual fund shares,
administrative hassles, here are some benefits of
• Fair market value tax deduction on gifts of real
take care of the details to make grants from your fund.
identified highest priority areas, including the arts, human
development, education, health care and neighborhood
revitalization. This fund addresses both the current and
future needs of the most vulnerable populations in Los
Angeles County and is one of the most impactful ways
to give.
• Donor advised funds allow you to participate directly in grantmaking by making recommendations for grants
to specific organizations and causes you care about. You
respond to the increasing needs of the community through
the generosity of our donors.
For more information on setting up a fund and how CCF
provides an attractive alternative to a private foundation
or a commercial gift fund with maximum tax benefits,
go to www.calfund.org. We are happy to work with you,
your attorney or financial advisor to fulfill your charitable dreams. For assistance creating a new fund please
contact Carol Bradford at (213)452-6266. For assistance
with an existing fund please contact Amy Fackelmann at
(213)452-6241.
We are proud to represent a community of donors who
are passionate about building the future of L.A.
can work closely with foundation staff to select grant re-
• Easy and quick to establish and terminate.
cipients, evaluate potential funding strategies and involve
• No set-up fee.
family members or colleagues in the giving process. These
For more information, please call (213) 413-4130
to private or family foundations, and can be started with
or go to www.calfund.org.
$25,000.
funds are the most efficient, cost-effective alternative
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The 10th Street Preschool Scholarship Fund
The 21st Century Fund
54-D Fund
The Robert and Eunice Ankrum Fund
The Wallis Annenberg Gardens
Planning Fund
Annenberg/Grantmanship Center
Training Project
ABC7 & Firefighters Spark of
Love Toy Drive Fund
Anonymous Funds
The AbCd Child Care Initiative
APABA Scholarship Fund
Ackerman Family Fund
Appleton Trust
James H. Ackerman Fund
The Abbas Ardehali Fund
Adams-Dongray-Baxter Scholarship Fund
Argyropoulos Family Fund
ADNET
The Ark Fund
Adopt-A-Fire Station Foundation
The Arkham Fund
Adopt-A-School Fund
The Arnesen Family Foundation
Adult Asperger’s Fund
The Sudesh and Chitra Arora
Family Foundation
The African American Scholarship Fund
Kenneth R. Ahlburg Memorial Fund
AIASFV Fund
The Robert Alan Charitable Giving Fund
Albertson Foundation Fund #1
Albertson Foundation Fund #2
Kenneth C. Aldrich and
Yvonne Craig-Aldrich Fund
Algerian Earthquake Relief Fund
Albert J. & Mary R. Allegretti Foundation
The Commander Allen Fund
The Joseph P. Allen Memorial Fund
The Allstate Foundation California Wildfire
Relief Fund
The Alman Fund
The Carlos Almaraz Memorial Foundation
Alternative Medical AIDS Foundation
The Altman Family Foundation
Dean V. Ambrose Foundation
America Block-by-Block Financial
Education Fund
Anyone Can Whistle Foundation
Singer/actress Annette Funicello’s fund was the
most searched fund on CCF’s Web site from April to
June 2008. Funicello, Walt Disney’s most popular
Mouseketeer who has battled multiple sclerosis
since 1987, created the Annette Funicello Fund for
Neurological Disorders in 1993.
Artistic Scholarship Fund for
Inner City Youth
The Arts and Culture Fund
Luis Balmaseda Fund for Gay & Lesbian
Libraries and Archives
Chris Omoto Beezley Memorial Fund
Tyra Banks/TZONE Foundation
Margaret Beirne Fund
The Berton M. Banta Charitable Fund
Claire Bell Fund
The Bradford C. Banta Charitable Fund
Arturo & Chona Barberan Foundation
John G. Bell Scholarship Fund –
Los Feliz Lions Club
Maurthea F. Atlass & Mortimer Howard
Atlass Memorial Fund
Eleanor & Max Baril Charitable Fund
Bell-Richoz Fund
Walter Jarvis Barlow Fund
The Belzer Family Foundation
The Daniel and Diana Attias Fund
The Lila Ashley Barnett-Debney Family
Memorial Scholarship
Belzer Family Scholarship Fund
Elaine Mitchell Attias Fund
Jane Attias Fund
Carolyn G. Barnwell Fund
The John Audino Memorial Scholarship Fund
Barron Family Charitable Fund
Sylvia Bennett Fund for
Children’s Health and Disabilities
Ethel M. Aulbert Fund
Eleanor Barry Scholarship Fund
The Bernatz Foundation
Aurora-Viburnum Foundation
Michael and Honeya Barth Fund
Beverly Hills Education Foundation
Fred J. Aves Vocational Education Fund
Baurhyte Maternity Cottage Fund
Beverly Hills Education Foundation –
David Heiferman Scholarship
Evan Ashcraft Memorial Fund
The Mildred P. Ashcraft Fund
Asian Pacific American Legal Center Fund
The Andrew S. Atkin Charitable Fund
Atlantic Philanthropies-Community
Experience Partnership
B
The Meredith Baxter Fund for
Breast Cancer Research
Joan Laurel Bennett Scholarship Fund
The Beyond Shelter Fund
Benjamin & Ida Bayles #1 Fund
The BHB Fund
Audrey Backus Charitable Trust
Benjamin & Ida Bayles #2 Fund
The Big Read
Bain Family Scholarship Fund
The Baytop Family Fund
Muriel O. Biladeau Fund
The Baker & Hostetler Merit Scholarship Fund
The Mark Bingham Leadership Fund
The Jay and Adriana Balaban Family Fund
Beach Cities Alliance for Community
Wellness Fund
Diane Anderson Fund
John A. Baldessari Foundation
Beating the Odds Endowment Fund
Leah M. Bishop and Gary M. Yale Fund
George H. Anderson Fund
Russell Ball Fund
Beating the Odds Fund
Sienna Bishop Memorial Fund for
Genetic Research
America Foundation
American Foundation for
Jungian-Depth Psychology
Anderson Student & Community Emergency
Needs Trust (ASCENT)
The W. H. Beckwith Fund
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The Stanley Behrens Foundation
Diane and Kendall Bishop Family Foundation
Continuing a jazz legend’s charitable legacy
At the height of her popularity, jazz singer extraordinaire Ella Fitzgerald never forgot the
tion. CCF provided a different asset investment manage-
hardships she endured when she was orphaned at age 15. She frequently made gener-
ment strategy and also had the ability to help the private
ous donations to help those less fortunate, especially disadvantaged youth.
foundation investigate various nonprofit organizations
In 1993, Fitzgerald created a private foundation that supports, among other activities,
and recommend well-run organizations in specific areas
music, after-school and early literacy programs and diabetes care and research. “Ella was
of interest. Income for the Fitzgerald foundation and CCF
shy, but she had a big, big heart,” said Fran Morris Rosman, executive director of the foun-
fund comes from royalties, name and likeness uses and
dation, which gave away $1 million in 2007. “If she saw a need, she wanted to help.”
investments.
After Fitzgerald’s death in 1996, it made sense to her longtime attorney, Richard
Said Richard Rosman, president of the foundation:
Rosman, to continue Fitzgerald’s charitable legacy by creating a donor advised fund
“We find CCF and its knowledgeable staff to be excel-
called the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Fund at CCF in 1998, in addition to the private founda-
lent partners in helping us continue her legacy of generously supporting the disadvantaged and those in need of
The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Fund at CCF
supports organizations like the Apollo
Theater, where the legendary jazz singer was
“discovered” decades ago.
Mads & Susan Bjerre Charitable Fund
The Booth Family Foundation
The Rita & Richard Blacker Charitable
Support Fund
The Marjorie & Benjamin Borchardt Fund
The Debra T. Blair Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Joseph Bosco Fund
Harry A. and Ida D. Blake Educational Fund
The Barbara Bosson Charitable Fund
Robert J. Blaylock Memorial Fund
Albert H. Bouchard Fund
assistance.”
The fund, just under $3 million, gave out $157,000 in
grants last year to such organizations as the Apollo Theater, where Fitzgerald was “discovered,” and JazzAmerica, an L.A.-based youth jazz program.
Borth Family Foundation
Brian Brainard Memorial Youth Fund
Bobby Brooks Fund
Brazelton Early Intervention Education Fund
Diane Brooks Medical Research Foundation
Brehm Family Charitable Fund
Agnes A. Brown Fund
BreitBurn Foundation
Leland M. and Clemmence Brown Fund
J. Robert & Lillian Brem Fund
T. M. and R. W. Brown Fund
Brentwood Park Beautification Fund
Coby Brubaker Children’s Fund
The Tom Breslin Foundation
David Brubaker Scholarship Fund
Paul Boland Memorial Fund
Boys & Girls Club of San Gabriel Valley
Voorhis Fund
Bright Family Foundation
Bruggeman-Kearsley Foundation
Bollenbach Family Scholarship Fund
Glenn Bozarth Charitable Fund
Katherine S. Brockway Fund
The Robert and Erika Brunson Charitable Fund
Linwood Boomer Family Fund
BP/Arco Fund
Brodie Charitable Fund
L. Isabel Bryson Charitable Trust
The Bragg Health Crusades Fund
Brody Fund
Buckley Family Fund
Betty and Daniel Bloomfield Fund
Boulware Family Foundation
The Blue Ridge Fund
Reveta & Bob Bowers Fund
BNI-Misner Charitable Foundation
Robert G. Boyd Fund
Board of Governors Fund
Boys & Girls Club of San Gabriel Valley
Endowment Fund
The Bock Family Fund
David Bohnett Fund
New Fund
Legacy Society Member (in bold)
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The Budhraja Family Fund
Norman & Gale Williams Buellton
Education Scholarship Fund
Gladys Irene & Carl W. Bull Fund
The Jim Bunch Memorial Fund
Suzanne Platt Bunzel Fund
The Burchill Charitable Fund
Grace E. Bush Fund
The Donald and Laura Butler Charitable Fund
The Butterfly Foundation
Dick & Molly Byers Fund
Gladys M. Byram Memorial Scholarships:
– Braille Institute Fund
Helping Those Who Help Others
Dr. Yanina Queen could have landed any lucrative job in the private sector, but instead
works as a pediatrician at a nonprofit community clinic in Inglewood. “With every kid I
treat,” said Dr. Queen, “I feel like I’m doing something important because they are really
in need of medical care.”
Dr. Queen, who came to the U.S. alone at the age of 19 from Russia, is a proud alumna
of the Robert C. Fraser Fund, the largest restricted scholarship fund administered by the
California Community Foundation.
– Jefferson High School Fund
For the 2007-08 academic year,
– North Hollywood High School Fund
the fund disbursed nearly $1 million
– UCLA College of Business Administration
Fund
for graduate students pursuing a
– USC College of Education Fund
medical or divinity career at UCLA and
USC. The fund also provides grants
C
to doctors who work in underserved
Evelyn Cady Fund
communities to help them repay their
Ace Cain Habitat for Humanity Endowment,
San Gabriel
educational loans.
The fund was created in 2004
The Calgary Foundation Fund
from the estate of Dr. Fraser, a promi-
California Association of REALTORS®
Disaster Relief Fund
nent Los Angeles ophthalmologist
The California Endowment Fund
who during his lifetime routinely bar-
California Homeownership
Preservation Initiative
tered with patients who could not afford his services. Since its creation, CCF has given out more than $2.6 million in scholar-
California Hospital School of Nursing
Alumni Association Fund
ships to about 55 students.
California Peace Officers Memorial
Foundation Scholarship
debt. “Thanks to the Fraser Fund, I come to work happy and do not have to worry. A heavy
California Veterans Charity Fund
cloud has lifted,” said Dr. Queen, 37. “I love working in a community clinic, but at the salary
The Reeves and Susan Callaway
Charitable Fund
I make I might never have paid off that loan otherwise.”
The Steven R. Camferdam and
Mary Ellen Kane Fund
Joyce J. Cammilleri Family Fund
Campbell Family Charitable Foundation
Cancer Research Fund
The Fraser Fund has enabled Dr. Queen to pay off about $50,000 of her $70,000 loan
“Thanks to the Fraser Fund, I come to work
happy and do not have to worry. A heavy cloud
has lifted. I love working in a community clinic,
but at the salary I make I might never have paid
off that loan otherwise.”
— Fund beneficiary Dr. Yanina Queen
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The Nicholas Scott Cannon Foundation
Mary M. Chrisman Fund
Florence R. Devine Fund #2
Warren Christopher Scholarship Fund
Robert E. and Dorothy A. Courtney
Family Foundation
Olive Harrower Canright Church
Support Fund
The Colette Chuda Environmental Fund
Eileen Shumer Craig Scholarship Fund
Barbara Dewey Fund A
The Cardoso Family Charitable Fund
Gina Cirone Fund
Todd Maxfield Crane Endowment Fund
Leonardo DiCaprio Fund at CCF
The Anne and Ben Carre Fund
Robert B. Craufurd Fund
The Jean C. Carrus Fund
City of Los Angeles Service Efficacy
Analysis Fund
Craven Foundation
Dickson Family Endowment for
Athletic Excellence
The Carter Foundation
Civic Alliance Fund
The Crawford Family Fund
The Anne Diedrich Fund
Irval W. and Florence D. Carter
Scholarship Foundation
Ada Belle Clark Fund
Chloe Crawford Fund
Difference Makers Foundation
The Jane Clark Charitable Fund
Criminal Justice Institute Fund
The Mabel J. Dilley Memorial Fund
John A. Carter Jr. Fund
Thomas and Phyllis Clark Family Fund
Frank and Eva Crosetti Charitable Fund
Disaster Relief Fund
The Albert Cartwright Scholarship Fund
Larry P. Clemmensen Family Fund
Esther Sparks Cross Fund
Cascade Fund
Caleb T. Crowell Fund
District Attorney Victim & Crime Prevention
Initiatives Fund
Casey Family Foundation
The Codding Family Foundation in
Memory of Barbara & Olivia
Cultural Affairs Department Services Fund
Charles and Carol Divine Foundation
Patrick Cassidy Fund
Bati and Jerry Cohen Fund
Cultural Facility Trust Fund
Dohring Family Foundation
Cates Family Foundation
The Charles and Rae Cohen Charitable Fund
Culver City Education Foundation Fund
Dolle Family Fund
Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship Fund
The JKK Cohen Family Fund
CAVU/LUTZ Fund
Patricia & Ira Cohen Foundation
CCF Endowment Fund
CCF Real Estate Holdings
The College Scholarship Fund for
LAUSD Students
D6 Outreach Fund
Dorwart Foundation
CD For the Troops Fund
The Jeanne and Harold Collier Family Fund
Hazel E. Daly Fund
The Michael J. Downer Foundation
The Cederbaum Family Fund
John P. Commons Fund
Hazel E. Daly Fund #1
The Jim & Marguerite Downing Fund
Cedu School Fund
Community Dance Association Fund
Frances E. Dance Fund
The Karl Doyle and Lynn Shepherd-Doyle Fund
Centinela Medical Care Fund
Community Foundation for Oak Park
Dancing Cat Benefi t Fund
Centinela Medical Community Fund
Community Foundation Land Trust
The Ann Daniel Foundation
The Paul K. and Annette M. Doyle
Charitable Fund
Central American Hurricane Relief Fund
Community Partners Fund
The Daum Family Fund
William K. & Cheryl S. Doyle Family Fund
Community School/Safe Havens Fund
B. Dade Davis & Helen Mohan Davis
Memorial Fund
The James and Wendy Drasdo Fund
Ruth and Prince Davis Fund for
Medical Research and Care
The Dritley Family Fund
The Duende Fund
The Century Freeway Corridor Area
Child Care Fund
Conexant Systems Charitable Fund
Barbara Dewey Fund
Dolphin Change Program Fund
D
Juan J. Dominguez Scholarship Fund
The Kathleen & Terry Dooley Fund
Jean Roth Driskel Scholarship Fund
Victor Chaltiel Fund
Nettie M. Conger Fund
The Jack K. Chan Fund
Harry & Jessica Conniff #1 Fund
Dottie & Marvin Chanin Charitable Fund
Ruth and Prince Davis Fund for
the Care of Animals
The Tywana Chapman Fund
Winifred Sears Davis Fund
The Jeff and Paige Dunham Fund
The Charlie Foundation To Help Cure
Pediatric Epilepsy
Roberta A. Conroy Charitable Fund
Alma Dawn Foundation
George A.V. Dunning Fund
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Endowment Fund B
Minju Chung de La Tour Educational Fund
The Kirsten Dunst Foundation
The Chesney Scholarship Fund
The Sonia Maria de León de Vega
Charitable Fund
The Durfee Community Fund
The Continental Fund
Corday Kozberg Family Fund
CHHA/CCCHA/Tract 7260/WHA
Community Benefi t Fund
The Alexis de Tocqueville Fund
The Duttenhaver Fund
Coro Southern California Endowment Fund
Margaretta de Wet Fund
The Dwyer Fund
Betty Corradini Endowment Fund
W. Jacqueline de Wit Fund
The Richard F. & Eleanor W. Dwyer Fund
The Bruce and Toni Corwin Foundation
Dear Jack Foundation
George and Lynne Davidson Dyer Scholarship
The Marion L. Cosgrove Foundation
Deemer Family Foundation
William & Adelaide Costello Foundation
Rosemarie Dench Fund
Council District 5 Regional
Transportation, Planning
Florence R. Devine Fund #1
The Louise Cherry Little/George W. Cherry
Scholarship Fund
Child & Family Center Endowment Fund
Child and Family Guidance Center
Endowment Fund
Children’s Health Initiative (CHI)
The Stanley and Poksil Choy Scholarship Fund
New Fund
Dubnoff School Scholarship Trust
Theresa & Mike Dutra Fund
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Many CCF donors give cash or stock.
However, some donors have other assets
they use to create their charitable fund.
One donor, a well known pianist and
The FEDCO Charitable Foundation
The Robert C. Fraser Fund
Fellowship Lutheran Scholarship Fund
The Joshua S. & Beth C. Friedman Family Fund
The Jack Felthouse Scholarship Fund
The Richard and Gloria Friedman Foundation
David Ferguson Memorial Scholarship Fund
Friends of Fire Station 29 Fund
Gladys Isabel Ferres Fund
Friends of Heritage Preservation Fund
Richard M. & Maude M. Ferry Foundation
Friends of the Jr. Philharmonic Orchestra Fund
The Fieberg Family Fund
Friends of the Tanzania Professional Tour
Guide School
The Fieldmouse Foundation
The Fields Family Fund
vocalist, gave CCF the royalties to an
album he recorded to honor the victims
of the September 11th terrorist attacks,
and payments from these royalties are
The Film Arts Fund
The Finneran Family Fund
Sara Finney-Johnson Scholarship Fund
Fire Station 39 Fund
The David and Marianna Fisher Fund
Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Fund
Donald P. Flagg Fund
funding his charitable grantmaking.
Mary & Jay Flaherty Family Foundation
The Flaming Pie Fund
The David Fleming Fund
Motley H. Flint Fund
E
Martin W. & Dorothy Anne Early Family Fund
The Earth Retreat Fund
ECHO (Employees Charity Organization)
Endowment Fund
Mark M. Edler Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Education Fund
Robert B. Egelston Fund
The Jane Eisner Fund
Linnea A. Ekberg Fund
El Monte High School Scholarship Fund
Melville Ralph Emery Fund
Emrani Family Foundation
Endowment Partners Program
Michael A. Enomoto, FAIA Fund
Enright Family Fund
The Leo D. & S. Ruth Epstein Fund
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Altha M. Fry Fund
Altha M. Fry Fund #2
Sadie M. Fuller Fund
Fund For New Americans
Fund for Women’s Wellness
The Fundacion Araucaria Fund
Annette Funicello Fund for
Neurological Disorders
The Cornelia Funke Fund
G
Motley H. Flint Fund #2
The Emogene Gable Fund
The Flowers & Cobb Families Fund
Walter W. Gadomski Fund
The Erickson Family Fund
The Focus on Poverty Fund
The Raymond and Jeannette Gahagan Fund
The Paul & Georgianna Erskine
Charitable Fund
The Ford Theatre Foundation
James J. Gambs Fund
The Billy Foreman Fund
Gammy’s House Fund
Daniel A. Espinoza and William P. Ingoldsby
Scholarship Fund
The Billy Foreman Fund for the UCLA
Medical Auxiliary
Marc Gamsin & Susan Brauneiss
Charitable Fund
Lori Evensen Family Fund
Nichole Renee Fortman Fund
Rabbi Robert Gan Family Endowment
R. Christian B. Evensen Family Fund
Fostering Understanding Fund
Richard and Frances Gardner Fund
Foundation for the Future of Los Angeles
William M. Garland, II Fund
Charles J. Fox Fund
Mattie C. Garretson Fund
The Frieda C. Fox Family Fund
Samuel W. Garretson Fund
The Jamie Foxx Foundation
Samuel W. Garretson Fund #2
Samuel L. Francis Medical Research Fund
Gastler Malloy Charitable Fund
Frank Frank Fund
The Gavin Family Fund
Frankel Foundation
John and Constance Gavin Foundation
Beulah Frankel Legacy Fund
Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles
Endowment Fund
The Edlin Family Fund
EDSOCAT Fund
The Frons Family Fund
F
Faber Family Fund
Fain Family Fund
The Fairness Fund
Faith in Education Fund
Families in Schools Fund
Helen Farah Fund
Helen Farah Fund #2
Charles & Josephine Farnham Fund
Brian and Denise Farrell Charitable Fund
Ted Fauvre Memorial Scholarship Fund
Lowell M. Frantz Fund
Lowell M. Frantz Restricted Fund
Donald A. and Louise E. Fraser
Award Foundation
Donald A. and Louise E. Fraser
Charitable Foundation
Alexandra Simone George Memorial Fund
Magda Gerber Fund
The Obren B. & Marilyn M. Gerich
Foundation Fund #1
“CCF worked with us and
found creative solutions to
help us achieve our goals.”
— Donor John Iino
Honoring parents in
different ways
Sho and Grace Iino placed as great a value on social service as they did on education and
hard work. The couple, second-generation Japanese Americans, left legacies that reverberate to this day through two funds bearing their names that support very different areas and
work independently of each other.
The funds, established 12 years apart, are an example of a family choosing different
charitable solutions through two gifts from an estate. In 1995, the Iino family created a fund
in memory of their mother, who died from ovarian cancer at age 63.
Gladys German Memorial Scholarship Fund –
Lincoln High School
Burton E. Green Memorial Fund I
Debra Gerod Fund
Burton Green Permanent Endowment Fund
Tokyo Service Center, a CCF grantee. Her fund helped to provide about 60 community
Dennis and Susi Gertmenian Fund
Varian S. & Gwendolyn L. Green Fund
educational seminars and more than 350 support group sessions for Alzheimer’s caregiv-
J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts
The Audrey & Arthur N. Greenberg Fund
ers and cancer survivors.
Charles E. & Ruth V. Gilb Foundation
The Gabrielle and Rob Greenberg Fund
John M. Gilbert Fund
Peter and Carol Greenfield Fund
father, who in 1947 was the first Japanese American in the U.S. to become a licensed Certi-
John M. Gilbert Fund #2
Wendy Greuel Children’s Foundation
fied Public Accountant.
Kevin Gilbert Memorial Fund
Rosalyn & Julis Griffin Endowment Fund
William W. Gill Fund
Herbert Griffi ths Memorial Fund
The Giordano Charitable Fund
said son John Iino. “They grew up during the war and learned the concept of rallying to-
William H. Grizel Fund
The Alex Giritlian Scholarship Fund
gether as a community. It wasn’t just a matter of having a good heart and good morals, but
The David-Alexandre C. Gros Fund
Harriet Glickman Fund for Children
The Thomas Frederick Grose Fund
Global Bridge Foundation Fund
The Gross Family Fund
Karl Freeman Glou Charitable Fund
Alice C. Grubb Memorial Fund
The Goehner Charitable Fund
The Guber Foundation
Goldberg Charitable Fund
The Paul Guido Fund
returns for the elderly. He died in
Wendy and Leonard Goldberg Foundation
The Ajay and Silvia Gupta Charitable Fund
2006 at age 91. His fund awarded
The Gerald Goldfarb Foundation
William E. Guthner, Jr. Memorial Fund
its first scholarships this fall to
Burton E. Green Memorial Fund II
Gary and Linda Goldfein Fund
Jonathan and Wendy Goldhill Fund
Abner and Roslyn Goldstine Fund
A former teacher, Grace Iino was a founding member and first president of Little
In 2007, the family created the Sho Iino Accounting Scholarship Fund in memory of their
“Mom and Dad were very selfless and dedicated to giving back to the community,”
a matter of survival.”
Every year after his retirement
Sho Iino volunteered his time to the
community by doing income tax
Japanese Americans who are ac-
H
counting majors at UCLA and USC.
Like this one, CCF can create and
The Dina and Eitan Gonen Fund
The Harold and Beverly Haas Fund
The Goodman Family Fund
The Hagerty Family Fund
Gordy Family Foundation
The Stephen Halper Family Fund
The Gother Family Charitable Fund
Hamilton High School Music Academy Fund
Kanta Goyal Memorial Fund
Bessie Hamilton Memorial Fund
their parents, the Iino family turned
Warren & Randi Grant Family Foundation
Christy Lynne Hamilton Memorial Fund
to CCF. “CCF has a great reputation
Herman & Margaret H. Gray Family Fund
Frederick C. Hamilton Memorial Fund
and a long history in Southern California,” said John Iino, a partner at Reed Smith who oversees
Joan M. Gray & Frances Zaccaglini
Missionary Fund
The Han Family Charitable Giving Fund
both funds with his brothers Tom and Steven. “Integrity and performance are critical to select-
The M. W. Hancock Fund
ing a partner. CCF worked with us and found creative solutions to help us achieve our goals.”
The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association Fund
Hanna Boys Center Endowment Fund
New Fund
manage scholarship funds that public universities can no longer house.
When it came time to honor
Sho and Grace Iino
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J. Terence Hanna and B.J. Kirwan Foundation
Shannon Haupt Foundation
Hernández-Stern Family Fund
The Dean Hansell Fund
Haven House Endowment Fund
Arthur & Louise Hanser Charitable Trust Fund
Dr. Beverly J. Hawkins and Family
Charitable Fund
N.H.H.S. Alumni Jim & Lillian Hertan Cummings
Scholarship Fund
Hollywood-Los Angeles Council of the Navy
League Lenore Williams’ Endowment Fund
Gina K. Holzman Charitable Fund
John Laing Homes Excellence Through
Education Scholarship Fund
Blanche, Augustus and Wes Harrison
Foundation
Mandy Hayes Foundation
Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple Sakioka
Family Endowment Fund
The HCY Fund
The Aqua Hill Charitable Gift Fund
Benjamin Hong Foundation
The Mike and Marsha Harrison Fund
The Health Care Fund
Leonard Hill Foundation
The Hong’s Family Charitable Fund
C. W. Hartley Fund
Heartstrings America Fund
Dr. Joseph Hilton Memorial Fund
Hartwell Memorial Fund
Mel Hebert Family Foundation
Historic Schools Investment Fund
Jennifer Taylor Honick Foundation
for Humanity
J. Dale Harvey Family Fund
John Hedberg Charitable Trust
The Ho Family Foundation
Lorena C. Hopkins Fund
Margaret McNutt Harvey Fund
The Hendershot Family Fund
The Hodes-Rohde Fund
The McMillan Hopkins Fund
The Henry Hathaway Trust
Henry Family Fund
The Glen and Gloria Holden Family Foundation
James C. Horgan Charitable Trust
The Carol & Eric Hattler Family Fund
Buck Henry Charitable Fund
Walter J. Holiday Fund
Lewis C. Horne III Memorial Fund
Charles Haueisen Scholarship Fund
Gertrude Hense Fund
Gertrude M. and Philip C. Holland Fund
James & Bernice Horst Fund
Edith Harlan Fund
Crystal Becker’s voice trembles as she describes the care her husband Shane took in
preparing for his first father-daughter dance. “We went all over Anchorage looking for the
perfect dress,” Crystal said. “The prices were outrageous, but that didn’t matter to him.
He put on his dress green uniform, went outside and knocked on the door to pick up Cierra.
“TAPS has given us a feeling that we belong. We
express ourselves, get our feelings out and then
we’re ready to go at it some more. For us it’s the
new normal.”
— Crystal Becker, survivor
He even carried her across a mud puddle.”
Army Staff Sgt. Shane Becker was killed April 3, 2007 by small arms fire in Iraq. He
was 35. Besides Crystal, he is survived by daughters Cierra, 8, and Cheyenna, 16 months.
a three-year, $6 million grant from IADIF to expand its capacity.
To help them deal with grief, Crystal turned to TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Program
Crystal, who now lives in Beeville, Texas, took Cierra to three TAPS events. Cierra
for Survivors), a national organization in Washington D.C. that provides ongoing emo-
benefited from meeting children her own age who had difficulty talking about their feelings
tional support to surviving family members who have lost a loved one serving in the U.S.
of loss. Before TAPS, said Crystal, Cierra displayed her frustration in extremes — from
Armed Forces.
acting as a “perfect older sister handing out Kleenexes to everybody” to “screaming and
Through the generosity of donors, the California Community Foundation supports
kicking and yelling, ‘These stupid, bad guys! These stupid, bad guys!’”
TAPS through a $550,000 grant from the Iraq Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund
Now both have found a network of support. “TAPS has given us a feeling that we
(IADIF) administered at CCF. The grant
belong,” Crystal said. “We express ourselves, get our feelings out and then we’re ready to
has allowed TAPS to serve 2,870 new
go at it some more. For us it’s the new normal.”
Shane Becker with daughter Cierra
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“CCF gets it,” said TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll, whose organization recently received
families, hold 14 regional seminars for
This is an example of how our donors are making an impact through their grant-
3,000 people and respond to more
making. To learn more, go to www.taps.org and http://www.calfund.org/receive/
than 24,000 requests on its hot line.
iadif.php.
TAPS Helps Survivors Journey Through
Grief and Healing
Horton Medical Scholarship and
Lectureship Fund
Jamison Properties, Inc., Fund
Roy L. & Elizabeth M. Kent Fund
The Jani Family Foundation
The Kessler Family Foundation
Belle & William Hoss Fund
Jen Family Charitable Fund
Sydney Kessler Fund
The Randy Hostetler Living Room Music Fund
Jensen Family Fund
The Khan Spire Charitable Fund
Hot Milk Foundation
Christian Jensen Charitable Trust
Kid Fund
Hot Topic Foundation
Jeopardy/Balancing the Odds Program of
the LAPD
The Marcus and Jaime King Family Foundation
Jerrold V. and Elaine B. Jerome Fund
Thelma Pearl Howard Foundation
The Kinney-Maidman Donor Advised Fund
The JGV & MHV Fund
Judge Lowell Howe Scholarship Fund
Bertha Urban Kinsey Memorial Fund
La Plaza de Cultura Y Artes Foundation
Endowment Fund
Johnson Martin Charitable Fund
Hoyt Scholarship Fund
Betty Jean Kivel Foundation
Edna La Rue Fund
Kathryn Mullikin Johnson Fund
The J Andrew Huang Family Fund
Daniel Kivel Foundation
Ralph G. Johnson Fund
La Salle High School of Pasadena
Endowment Fund
Sherrianne Wright Huard Scholarship Fund
Scott N. Kivel Charitable Fund
Stephen G. & Rosemarie T. Johnson
Family Fund
Kiwanis Club of Hollywood-Los Feliz
Endowment Fund
La Tierra Urbana Fund
W. Johnson & H. E. Washburn Fund
Harriet N. Klatt Fund
The LACER Fund
Vera M. Johnston Early Childhood/
Elementary Movement
The James and Brooke Klein Family Fund
LAFD/LAPD St. Patrick’s Day Parade Fund
The Michael John Klein and Evelyn Klein Fund
The Mini Lai Scholarship Fund
The Robert & Barbara Klein Family Fund
John P. Lamerdin Scholarship Fund
The Rodney G. Klein Foundation
The Landers Family Fund
Sandra J. Klein Family Charitable Fund
Donald E. and Patricia A. Lange Family Fund
Horace B. Knight Fund
John and Sarah Kobara Family Foundation
Eugene G. and Sylvia M. Lange Memorial
Scholarship Fund
The Billy Eve & Lloyd Randall Koenig Fund
Langson Family Fund
Lloyd Randall Koenig & Billy Eve Koenig Fund
Lanterman Fund
Kopcho Family Foundation
The Jeffrey Lapin Charitable Fund
The Kagan Foundation
The Sarah Korda Fund
Larchmont Boulevard Median Project Fund
Kaiser Permanente Southern California Fund
for Charitable Contributions
Korean American Coalition Fund
The Ellen R. Larson Fund
Kosta Family Scholarship Fund
Karin L. Larson Fund
Gloria and Sonny Kamm Family Fund
The Kovinsky Family Charitable Fund
Cynthia and Edward Lasker Fund
Grace Iino Community Education Fund
Seth Katz Memorial Fund
The Joanne Kozberg Fund
Latham & Watkins Foundation
Sho Iino Accounting Scholarship Fund
The Judi Kaufman Foundation
Kozlen Family Fund
Independent Citizens for California’s
Children Fund (IC3)
The Robert & Fori Kay Family Fund
The Gloria & Jack Kramer Family Foundation
William J. Laumbach Fund For
Parkinson’s Research
Independent Insurance Agents Association of
Santa Monica Fund
Kaye Family Fund
Harry B. Kuhns Fund
Louise Keasler #1 Fund
The Kay Kuschner Family Donor Advised Fund
Carl T. and Liselotte Kuttler Fund
House of Ruth/Services for Battered Women
and Children Fund
Pamela Hubbard-Wiley Educational
Scholarship Fund
Brenda & Paul Hudson Fund
Terrence O. & Joyce B. Hughes Family Fund
William Lawrence & Blanche Hughes
Foundation
William Lawrence and Blanche Hughes Fund
The Human Development Fund
The Hunt Family Foundation
The Dennis A. Hunt Memorial Fund for
Health Journalism
Elfa M. Hutchin Fund
Henrietta Hutchings Fund
Hyde Family Foundation
I
Iraq Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund
Irvine Foundation Arts Project Fund
The Angelina Jolie Foundation
The Jolie-Pitt Foundation
The Maddox Jolie Pitt Foundation
Margaret Ann Jones College Scholarship Fund
The Joshi Family Scholarship Fund
The Julis Family Fund
K
Sharon A. Keith Fund
J
Douglas Kendall Concerts Fund
Getzel R. Kenner Memorial Fund
The Sherry Jackson Foundation
J. Howard & Harriet L. Kent Fund
Dr. Raymond Jallow Family Foundation
J. Wesley & Elizabeth Kent Fund
L
The Kemp Family Foundation
C. Bernard Jackson Scholarship Fund
New Fund
Kinney Family Foundation
C. Joseph & Donna M. La Bonté
Charitable Fund
La Cãnada Flintridge Education Foundation
Endowment Fund
La Cãnada Flintridge Education Foundation –
Rose N. Harrington Fund
La Kretz Family Foundation
La Kretz Fund #1
LA Wild Endowment Fund
LAUSD Small Schools Planning Grant for
Secondary Schools
Richard L. Lauter and Helen S. Lauter Fund
Law Faculty Scholarship For
Underrepresented Racial Minorities
Charles Lawrence Fund
L and J Foundation
Susanne Lawrenz-Miller Endowment Fund
L and J Foundation #2
The Serene & Rubin M. Lazar Charitable Fund
L.A. Police Foundation - Lori Gonzales
Scholarship Fund
LBH Fund
Ellie & Bruce Lederman Fund
Lee Family Fund
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When entrepreneurs Chet and Jan Pipkin met as volunteers 27 years ago at the California
community foundation was able to sell the stock at full market value, benefiting the Pipkins’
YMCA Youth and Government program, they were already committed to community service
fund. The Pipkins also received a charitable deduction for the stock’s fair market value.
and social service-related work. Married since 1985, they started a technology and consumer
electronic products company from his
parents’ garage in Hawthorne.
As Belkin International Inc. grew into
a global leader, the Pipkins realized their
Had the Pipkins created a private foundation, their gift would have been treated less
favorably under the tax code and not be funded with the full market value of the stock.
Today the fund has $6.7 million and primarily supports children and disadvantaged youth
programs. “To have an impact on social change, we need to invest in the next generation,”
Chet said.
charitable giving, one of the most critical
The Pipkins, both 48, hope to significantly grow the fund over the rest of their lifetimes.
areas of their lives, had to be more orga-
And they see CCF as a vital partner. “It comes down to three things — CCF’s mission, vision
nized and impactful.
and people,” Chet said. “The mission and values are easy to see and the organization really
Everyone they knew mentioned
CCF. “Very quickly it became obvious
to us that CCF was already doing a tremendous job of researching and providing a networking platform to do what we
wanted,” Chet said. “The more we learned the more we were blown away.”
In 2002 the Pipkins created a fund at CCF, The Pipkin Charitable Foundation. Their gift
lives up to them day in and day out. The people are crazy good. We’re proud of our association with CCF.”
“It comes down to three things — CCF’s mission, vision
and people. The mission and values are easy to see and
the organization really lives up to them day in and day
out. The people are crazy good.”
— Donor Chet Pipkin
of one million shares of stock in their privately held company was converted to cash and the
fund was set up with $4.8 million. If the Pipkins had redeemed the stock themselves, they
would have paid capital gains tax on the proceeds. By giving the stock directly to CCF, the
Entrepreneurial in Business and Philanthropy
David and Miki Lee Family Foundation
Cash and April Levy Fund
The Lipp Family Charitable Fund
The Tom & Colleen Lee Family Fund
David and Miriam Lewis Foundation
Timothy Gates Lisberger Memorial Fund
The Jerry Leen and Leo Dennis Fund
Fanny Pierson Lewis #1 Fund
Anne Litt and Howard Franklin Charitable Fund
Ora L. Leeper #1 Fund
Scott Litt Charitable Fund
The Lockett Family Fund
The Bertram and Raquel Lewitt Fund
Lombard Family Foundation
Perry and Abbe Lane Leff Charitable Fund
T. June and Simon K.C. Li Charitable Fund
Lehman Family Charitable Fund
Adolph C. Lichtenberger Fund
Jennifer Beltran Lopez Colibri
Scholarship Fund
Alexis Lemonton Fund
The Ernest Lieblich Foundation
John Conlan Lopez Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Lester Family Fund
The Linda Foundation
Adam Leventhal Memorial School & Museum
Endowment Fund
Arthur & Frances Linsk Family Foundation
Los Angeles Audubon Society Education and
Conservation Fund
Carl and Ethel Levine Family Foundation
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Byron E. Linville Fund
Los Angeles Board of Education Health Benefi t
Research Fund
Los Angeles City Affordable Housing & Blight
Abatement Fund
Los Angeles City Attorney Community
Enhancement Fund
The Los Angeles Community Fund
Los Angeles County Office of Education Fund
Los Angeles Parks Trust Fund
Los Angeles Social Venture Partners Fund
Los Angeles Society for Coatings Technology
Education Fund
Los Angeles Times Fund
The Los Angeles Times Summer Camp
Endowment Fund
The Cora Jeanne Martin Memorial Fund
Dick Metz Scholarship Fund
Mary Isabella Martin Fund
Dick Metz Surf Foundation
William N. Martin, Sr. Fund
Metzman Family Fund
The Wendy K. Masuhara Memorial
Scholarship Fund
The Seymour Metzner American
Freedoms Fund
Glenn M. Mathews Fund
Elza Meyberg Fund
Robert Matican Fund
Albert & Emilie C. Meyer Fund
Mattel Global Community Fund
The Meyerhofer Family Fund
Walter Matthau Memorial Fund
Sylvia Meyerhoff Memorial Scholarship Fund
Matthew: 25 Fund
Constance G. Meylan Fund
Sean Michael Matthews Memorial Fund
Isaac Milbank Fund
The Katharine Mavis Charitable Fund
Laurence Milbank Fund
John W. Maynard Fund
The Catherine Guthrie Miller Fund
Mayor’s Volunteer Corps Fund
C.J. Miller Fund in Memory of Catherine Guthrie
Terry W. McAdam Fund
Jean Reiffin Miller Fund
Terry McAdam Fund
Phillip Miller Sit ‘n Sleep Scholarship Fund
McCaffrey Family Foundation
James A. Mills Family Fund
The McCammon Foundation
Elizabeth and David Mindel Charitable Fund
James H. & Barbara Mott McCarthy Fund
Mindspeed Charitable Fund
Lee A. McConnell Fund
Charles Minor Memorial Fund
Glen McDaniel Public Speaking Prize Seymour
High School Fund
Minority Enterprise Development Week
2001 Fund (MED Week)
James W. McDonald Fund
The Brian Moats Charitable Fund
The John G. McDonough Charitable Fund
Howard Mollring Fund
The Captain Eddie McEwen Fishing for
Kids Fund
Deni Montana Foundation
McFadzean Family Fund
John P. Moody Fund
Maynard McFie Fund
John and Valerie Morales Family Fund
The Martha P. Mack Fund
John L. and Helen B. McGrath Fund
Mackenzie Family Charitable Fund
The Terrance P. and Linda Puls McGuire
Charitable Fund
Phyllis G. Morey Banning High School
Scholarship Fund
A CCF donor advised fund is a perfect way
for a donor to time his or her charitable
deduction, even if the donor hasn’t decided
which charities will receive the grant.
Donors receive a charitable deduction in
the year that they make a gift to a donor
advised fund, not in the year they make
grants from the fund.
Los Angeles Women’s Entrepreneurial Fund
Los Feliz Lions Club Fund
The Anahita & Jim Lovelace Family Fund
LTSC Community Development Corporation
Endowment Fund
The Lucy Fund
Chief John Luetke Educational Fund
Dexter Wood Luke Parks Fund
The Joseph M. Lumarda Fund
The Lund Foundation Fund
Dr. Carl & Marge Lundgren Marine Research
Endowment Fund
Elmer D. Lundien Fund
Renee and Meyer Luskin Family Fund
M
The M&M Foundation
Elizabeth S. Maberly Fund
The Barbara Mack & Norman Levine
Charitable Fund
Fred & June Haver MacMurray
Philanthropic Fund
Montclair Youth Sponsorship Fund
Joan Virginia Morgan Fund
Lucile A. McKinstry Scholarship Fund
Marian F. Morris Fund For Pets
The Maffeo Family Foundation
Morgan McKinzie Scholarship Fund
Ralph T. Morris Charitable Trust
Sally & Philip Magaram Family Fund
Jacqueline and Harry McMahon
Family Foundation
Ralph T. Morris Distribution Fund
George McManus Fund
John K. Moss Charitable Fund
McMaster-Carr Fund
MOSTE Scholarship Fund
McMullen Charitable Fund
Harvey S. Mudd Fund
Everett and Nancy Maguire Foundation
Philip Mandelker Memorial Fund
Lawrence Morton Fund
Catherine O. Lutgens Fund
The Jeffrey Mandell and Abigail Jones
Charitable Fund
Charles W. and Joan Luther Fund
The Alfred E. Mann Fund
Lawrence P. and Jane M. McNeil Fund
Donald L. Muff Fund
Patricia Lutton Foundation
Marina Health Restitution Fund
Sadie Jane McNeil Fund
The Peter W. Mullin Foundation
Julia Lynch Fund
Markman Family Children’s Fund
Grace Meagher & Florence Woods Fund
The Susan Adams Munio Scholarship Fund
Vernon Lynch Sr. Memorial Fund
The Jacqueline S. Marks Fund
The Patricia A. Medlin Fund
Gertrude & Harry Murphy Fund
Judith R. Lynde Memorial Fund
Louise Marshall Fund
The Paula Kent Meehan Fund
The Timothy Murphy Fund
New Fund
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Health is the top issue area for a
quarter of our donor advised grants
($38 million). Education and
community economic development
follow at $24 million and
$21 million, respectively.
One Minute Fund
The Quan Phung Charitable Fund
Optimist Home for Boys Fund
Pi Alpha Phi Alumni Scholarship Fund
The Orange County Reads One Book Fund
Charles H. Pidgeon Fund
Anne Osberg/Moose Moravec Fund
Charles H. Pidgeon Fund #2
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Oschin Family Foundation
The John Pierce Emergency Fund
The Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Oschin Fund
Robert G. Pierce Fund
Oskar’s Hope Foundation
The Norman R. Pierson Fund
Beryl L. Owen Memorial Fund
The Pipkin Charitable Foundation
The Jane G. and Mark A. Pisano Fund
P
Pacific Lodge Youth Services Fund
PacifiCare/LAUSD Scholarship Fund
Packard Pre School Advocacy Initiative Fund
The Padilla/Zschau Fund
The Paint Box Fund Supporting the Arts
in Education
The Joan Palevsky Endowment for the Future
of L.A. Fund
The Michael J. & Alexandra Palko Foundation
Parish Memorial Fund
Ki Suh and Ildong C. Park Fund
Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald
N
The Nana Fund
The National Metals Charitable Fund
The Neighborhood Revitalization Fund
The Neighborhood Youth Association Fund
Walter L. Neill Fund
The Russell and Dawn Nelson Family Fund
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Frank Pittman Scholarship Endowment Fund
Jean Plant Charitable Fund
Pleasantview Industries Fund
The Podlich Fund
Philip & Zuzana Polishook Fund
The Annemarie Polizzotto
Memorial Foundation
Brian C. Porter Memorial Scholarship
Charitable Fund
Poulsen Family Foundation
The Pride and Joy Foundation
The Program Enrichment Fund
The Project GRAD Fund
The Dale & Mike Nissenson Fund
Participant Foundation
Public Counsel Fund A
The Maurice and Marjorie Noble Fund
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
The Purcell/McKnight Foundation
The Luis Nogales Fund
Pasadena Senior Center Endowment Fund
Byron J. Putnam Fund
Charles & Peggy Norris Family Fund
The Passages Charitable Fund
PX Charitable Foundation
The Annette Tyler North Fund
Morris Paster/Gussie Sitkin Foundation
The Northeast Renaissance Corporation
PATH Endowment Fund
Nurturing Neighborhoods/Building
Community Fund
C. Fred Pearson, S. & W. P. Wise Fund
The Dr. Henry & Lilian Nesburn Award Fund
R. G. Neubarth Memorial Athletic
Scholarship Fund
Frank Pittman Fund
O
Q
The Jacob and Katie Peavy Family Fund
The Jose Quintero Foundation for the
Theatre Arts
AnneMarie Pellerito Memorial Foundation
Safi & Anita Qureshey Fund
The Perrault Family Scholarship Fund
R
Ilse Neumann Fund
Michelle & Michael O’Brien Foundation
The Latifa Korkmas Peters Fund for Women
The Sarah Carpenter and Robert Newman
Family Foundation
The Scott O’Brien Charitable Fund
Joseph and Helen O’Connor Fund
Cheryl Petersen and Roger Lustberg
Charitable Fund
The Douglas & Allison Raleigh Fund
The Stan Newton Award Fund
The O’Donnell Family Endowment
Earl & Doris Peterson Fund
The Rallis Fund
Sue Nies Memorial Scholarship Fund
O’Melveny & Myers Fund
Marjorie M. Peterson Fund
Ann Ramer Fund
The William A. and Ann Niese Charitable Fund
Ocean Park Community Center Fund
Edward Petko Charitable Fund
The Rancho Los Amigos Community Fund
The Nine Dots Fund
Pets and Partners Initiative
The Rancho Los Amigos Fund
Larry J. Nishimura Memorial Fund
John Olguin Jr. Docent Scholarship
Endowment Fund
Pfaffinger Foundation
Frank H. Rank Fund
Nissenson Family Fund
Luis Olivares Legacy Fund
Morgan Phoa Family Fund
Rappaport Family Foundation
New Fund
Charles F. Rauchfuss Charitable Fund
Jane Reinking-Kilgore Fund
The Edward and Nellie Rhode Newman Fund
Robinson Family Foundation
The Ravenhill Foundation
Edna Relyea #1 Fund
Ralph Richardson Scholarship Fund
Phil Alden Robinson Foundation
Bev & George Ray Charitable Fund
Edna Relyea #2 Fund
The Richstone Family Center
Virginia Robinson Foundation
The Raytheon Employee Disaster Relief Fund
The Reminick Donor Advised Fund
The Raytheon Fund in Support of Our Troops
Richstone’s Legacy for Children
Endowment Fund
Fred Rochlin Memorial Scholarship for
Graduates of Nogales High School
Read with Me/Lea Conmigo
Research & Education Fund of Architectural
& Furniture Hardware
James Sheldon Riley Fund
Reading By 9 Book Drive Fund
The Freda M. Resnick Fund
Reading By 9 Fund
Resthaven Fund
The Rinsch Family Foundation for
Viewpoint School
Frances Alicia Rocklin-F.A. Rockwell
Foundation
Reading By 9 Rotary Club Fund
The Reveal Family Fund
Sarah Richter Ritchie Memorial Fund
J. Robert & Helen M. Roe Fund
Reading is the Way Up Fund
The Carolina Reyes Family Fund
Emily Erin Roberts Scholarship Fund
The David & Victoria Rogers Family Fund
Ready Pac Kids To Camp Charity
The Gene Reynolds Room 222 LA High School
Scholarship Fund
The Ken Roberts Family Fund
Rolston Family Fund
Virgil and Brenda Roberts Family Fund
Romans 12:2 Fund
Winifred R. Reynolds Educational
Scholarship Fund
James Robeson Memorial and
Stephen Kanter Fund
Ronus Foundation
The John C. Rezner Foundation
The Robinov Family Foundation
Referral Institute Foundation
Samuel Reichman Fund
Enos Spencer Reid Memorial Award
Albert Rodriguez Fund
Roosevelt High School Fund
“Philanthropy is something that has to be taught at an early age.” – Donor Marty Wyle
For Noah Wyle, sharing was a normal part of growing up. When he got toys for Christ-
An example is Alexandria House, a transitional house for women and children in the
mas, he picked some out and took them to a children’s hospital or shelter. In school, he
mid-Wilshire area. “It’s a wonderful program that teaches skills like banking and running
befriended the shy kid in class who didn’t have any friends.
a house,” she said. She hopes to arrange a site visit soon with Noah and his 5-year-old
“Philanthropy is something that has to be taught at an early age,” said Noah’s mother,
son Owen.
Marty Wyle, a retired registered nurse who administers the Noah S. Wyle Foundation at
The Wyles, who knew little about setting
the California Community Foundation. The foundation was set up in 1999 after Noah’s suc-
up a foundation, turned to CCF. “CCF walked us
cess as Dr. John Carter on the television drama ER.
through the whole process, invited us to semi-
The Wyles are an example of how Noah and his family are working together on their
nars on responsible and intelligent giving and
philanthropy. The same year the fund was established, Noah, his future wife Tracy, and
handled the financial aspects of setting up the
Marty visited the camps of Macedonia to see the result of Kosovo refugees’ forced exodus
fund,” Marty Wyle said. “We have learned that
from the Serbian province where they once lived. “It made a huge impression on him,”
small grants can be significant and that there are
Marty said.
many areas of need unknown to us in our own
While this piqued his interest in international philanthropy, Wyle’s charitable interests
backyard. We thank CCF for their help, appreci-
also include arts and culture, teen suicide hotlines, literacy and education programs, librar-
ate their expertise and are proud to be associated
ies and scholarships. CCF helped the Wyles find organizations that address issues they
with them.”
care deeply about. Said Marty Wyle: “CCF recommended grantees, encouraged site visits
and through its Legacy Society luncheons introduced us to more opportunities for giving.”
Actor Noah Wyle
Giving is All in the Family
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The Sidney & Leontine Rose Charitable Fund
Tashi Zouras learned about generosity from his parents. He remembers his father, who
Minnie Ross Fund
owned a hamburger stand, giving his two-year-old car to his sister and money to his brother.
Nora Kaye & Herbert Ross Foundation
“Dad was a leader that way. He was the first to help if someone in our family was having a
The James M. Rosser Fund
tough time,” said Zouras, vice president of Dimetri Gardikas Produce Company, which sells
Liz Rothwell Memorial Fund
wholesale fruits and vegetables, in Santa Fe Springs.
Father Rowins Scholarship Fund
For years Zouras, 56, donated to cancer, diabetes and birth defects research and orga-
Aaron J. Ruben Endowment Fund
nizations that feed the hungry and help in disaster relief. He had read about donor advised
Rueff Family Fund
funds and decided to create one because it was a way to be “more proactive” in his charitable
Henry & Lucille Rutshaw Fund
giving and he had privately-held company stock that he wanted to sell.
Meg Ryan Charitable Fund
Because he didn’t know where to
start, he searched the Internet and found
CCF. “I could tell it was reputable by the
amount of donations it received,” Zouras
said. An attorney friend who does estate
planning confirmed Zouras’ choice, say-
“CCF did a real nice job of getting everything
done. A lot of people don’t realize you can
move appreciated assets into a donor advised
fund. It works out well for tax planning and
you also feel good about what you have done.”
ing he had been familiar with CCF’s services for at least a decade.
— Donor Tashi Zouras
In May 2008, Zouras gifted shares
of his company to CCF and under no
obligation, CCF sold the shares to the
employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
of Zouras’ company for $105,000. The
benefits were many: Zouras’ donor advised fund now has cash; he received a
S
S.O.S. Coral Trees Fund
Sagheb Family Scholarship Fund
The SahanDaywi Foundation
The Saks Charitable Foundation - 1999
Dorothy & Avram Salkin Charitable Fund
The Stephen M. Sall Fund
San Fernando Valley Association for
the Retarded Fund A
San Fernando Valley Association for
the Retarded Fund B
San Marino Rotary Charities Unrestricted
Donation Endowment
San Marino Rotary Charities William G. Steele,
Jr Mini-Grant
San Marino Schools Foundation Fund
fair market value of his stock; he didn’t
Sandpiper Debs Scholarship Fund
have to pay capital gains tax; he’ll get a
The Sandpipers South Bay Community Fund
· Casework & Programs
· Community Development and Growth
· Educational Scholarships
· Unrestricted Fund
tax deduction for his contribution; and
the company’s ESOP received a tax deduction for the contribution of cash to the fund.
Zouras plans to expand his giving to organizations that deal with Third World issues. He
hopes to grow the fund through additional stock sales or regular securities. Eventually, he
Sanford Family Fund
plans to pass the fund on to his sons, who are 6 and 9 months old.
Santa Monica Bay Fund
“CCF did a real nice job of getting everything done,” said Zouras. “A lot of people don’t
The Sapphos Foundation
realize you can move appreciated assets into a donor advised fund. It works out well for tax
Luther Sartor Memorial Scholarship Fund
planning and you also feel good about what you have done.”
Joseph F. & Margaret R. Sartori Fund
Ralph Voorhees Saums Fund
Making Appreciated Assets
Work for You
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Scatland Foundation
Elliott & Ellen Schieffelin Trust Fund
Robbi & Tom Schiff Family Foundation
Anna J. & Josephine Schlunke Fund
Schober/West Hollywood Presbyterian
Church Fund
John C. and Wendy W. Siciliano Family Fund
Starrett Family Fund
Rocco C. and Marion Stiebel Siciliano Fund
The Dwight & Alberta Hill Steele Fund
The Jane Parkford Taylor Fund
The Richard L. Schober Memorial Fund
Sierra Madre Issei Memorial Foundation
Marion L. Steele Fund
Josephine E. Taylor Fund
The Beth and Peter Scholze Foundation
Robert Silva Fund
The Stein Family Fund
The Cynthia Telles Fund
The Kevin Matthew Schrager Memorial Fund
Pamela Simon-Jensen Fund
Alfred P. Stern Fund
Marion Ternstrom Fund
Adam Schulman Memorial Scholarship Fund
Ben Simonson Scholarship Fund
Ellie & John Stern Foundation
The Schumacher-White Fund
Asher Duffy Sinclair Charitable Fund
Eugene J. Stern Fund
Marion Ternstrom Scleroderma Research
Endowment Fund
Simon Schweitzer Fund
The SIX FIFTEEN Trust
Lise R. Stern Fund
Tetra Tech Charitable Foundation
Pippa Scott Fund
Nancy Skelton Scholarship Fund
Eunice Moseley Sternberg Fund
Edward C. Teyber Scholarship Fund
The Scroggie Family Fund
Nora Slaff and Bennett Ross Fund
Alexis & Craig Stevens Fund
Thackaberry-Martin Family Fund
SDI Scholarship Fund
Allogan Slagle Scholarship Fund
Alexis & Craig Stevens Fund #2
The Thomas & Sue Charitable Fund
Secure Seniors Fund
Florence Wadsworth Smack Fund
Sara & Harold Lincoln Thompson Fund
The Securitas Sons’ and Daughters’
Scholarship Fund
The Gregory R. Smith Memorial Fund
Clay Stevens and Aaron Tallent
Scholarship Fund
The Thormahlen Family Donor Fund
Endowment Fund
Fannie M. Thomson Fund
The Segal Fund
The Jack & Denny Smith Memorial Fund
for Literacy
Prescott T. Stevens Fund
W. R. Stevens Science Scholarship Fund
Edward B. Thornley Fund
The Seider Foundation
Lloyd M. Smith Fund
The Tia Foundation
Sequoyah School Scholarship
Endowment Fund
Michael and Patricia Smith Family Fund
Wilma and Clyde Stieb Memorial
Scholarship Fund
The Donald L. Snow Scholarship Fund
Florence C. Stoddard Fund #1
Daisy Todd Memorial Fund
The Andre Sobel River of Life Fund
Florence C. Stoddard Fund #2
The Ed Todeschini and John Ferrante Fund
The Sonnenschein Family Fund
Thomas H. Stokley Fund
Camille P. Toomey Scholarship Foundation
The Sotaku Fund
The Stone Family Fund
Topanga Canyon Fire Fund
Southern California Broadcasters Assn.
Scholarship Fund
Stone/Van Wagoner Fund
The Stratton Charitable Fund
Torrance Charitable Trust FundSouthwest Museum
Southern California Foster Family and
Adoption Agency Fund
Jennie Strong Memorial Fund
The Abdi Towfigh Fund to Fight Leukemia
Dwight L. Stuart Foundation
Cindy Towle Memorial Fund
Kathryne H. Sewall Fund
Southern California Public Radio
Endowment Fund
Peter K. Studner Endowment Fund
Alfred & Jean LoGuercio Townes
Family Fund #1
Violet E. Seymour Fund
Southern California Wildfire Relief Fund
The Adiba Shaby Scholarship Fund
The Southern California Youth Initiative Fund
The Jack Shakely Fund
The Spade Foundation
Harold W. and Sonia S. Sunoo Peace in
Korea Foundation
Michael Thomas Shannon Scholarship Fund
Judy and Bob Spare Family Fund
The John & Donna Sussman Foundation
The Alison Shapiro Fund
Special Needs Fund
The Swart Foundation
The Peter Shapiro Fund
Richard A. & Nancy S. Spelke Foundation
Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Family Fund
Stella Laffer Spencer Fund #1
Sherer Courage ALS Foundation
Bertha Sherwood Fund
The Ernest M. Taber Fund
Verna C. Shipway Fund
Tabibzadeh Family Foundation
The Shoenberg Foundation
Marcia Cohn Spiegel Family Fund
Takemoto Family Charitable Foundation
Shoop Family Fund
Splichal Family Fund
Tom Talbert Charitable Fund #1
Shirley Gibson Shuler Scholarship Fund
The Melanie Staggs Charitable Fund
The Shuman Fund
The William E.B. Siart Family Fund
The Darren Star & Dennis Erdman
Animal Welfare Fund
Sibert Family Fund
Starr Fund
Esther & William Tarn Memorial Education
Sequoyah School Yvonne Pinto
Scholarship Fund
Sermoonjoy Fellowship Fund
Sermoonjoy Fund
Sermoonjoy Scholarship Fund
Charles H. Sessions Fund
Katherine E. Sessions Fund
Seven Oaks Charities Fund
New Fund
The Sturzenegger Family Charitable Fund
Jean Bateson Summers Fund
T
Allison & David Tannenbaum Foundation
The Times of Refreshing Fund
Family Fund #3
Family Fund #4
Family Restricted Fund #2
Toyota Associate Emergency Relief Program
Toyota Financial Services Making Life
Easier Fund
Tread Lightly Fund
The Rochelle and Paul Treger Family Fund
William and Diane Trimble Scholarship Fund
Irene F. Tripp Fund
The Cynthia and Richard Troop
Dr. Evelyn Troup Memorial Scholarship Fund
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The Brigitta B. Troy Charitable Fund
Verdugo Hills High School Alumni Fund
Joseph F. Troy Fund for Leukemia Research
Artemesia S. Vermillion Fund
The Tsu Hua Tsai Fund
The VIC Foundation Fund
Tsunami Relief Song Fund
The Francisca Villalobos Educational Trust
The Tub O’ Laughs Foundation
Harry J. Volk Fund
The Tuffli Family Fund
Von Der Ahe Foundation
Tzedaka Family Foundation
Louis Von Hacht Fund
from serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Kate S. Vosburg Memorial Clinic Fund
The study by RAND Corp. released April 17, 2008
CCF funded one of the most comprehensive studies showing that 300,000 U.S. veterans suffer from
post-traumatic stress disorder or major depression
received global media attention. Media coverage
U
UBS Financial Services Foundation
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included The Associated Press, The Los Angeles
Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, MSNBC,
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Scholarship Fund
The Walden School Fund
Uncle Bill Foundation
George M. Wallace Fund
The Unger Fund
Edgar B. and Jane Wyatt Ward Fund
The report was titled “Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Inju-
United Friends of the Children College
Scholarship Fund
Annza T. Ward Scholarship Fund
ries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery.’’ It was funded by a
The Aron Warner Fund
grant from the Iraq Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund (IADIF) administered by
United Friends of the Children Fund
United Methodist Women Bequested Trust of
First United
Unity Church of Alhambra Foundation
The University of West Los Angeles
Endowment Fund
Walker Family Fund
Leslie Warren Fund
Ruth Watanabe Fund
Watch the Road Fund
The Watt Family Charitable Fund
NBC Nightly News, Xinhuanet (China), The Canadian Press and CBS News.
CCF. IADIF was created to provide funding to nonprofit organizations that offer direct services and other forms of assistance to American military personnel and/or
their families who have been impacted by deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Dorothy C. Waugh Fund
Citing the study, USA Today reported on Aug. 5, 2008, that the Pentagon is spend-
The Tom and Janet Unterman Family Gift Fund
Mary C. Wavada Fund
ing an unprecedented $300 million on research for post-traumatic stress disorder
The Urban Greenspace Fund
Dr. Edward L. Webb Fund
and traumatic brain injury.
The Urban South Central Education Fund
(USCEF)
L. A. & Marion Webb Fund
USA for Africa/We Are The World Fund
The Effie Weinberg Fund
for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
USC Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy
Endowment Fund
The Weiner Family Fund
To order the RAND report, go to www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG720
The Martin and Marianne Weil Family Fund
Through the generosity of donors, CCF is a national leader in expanding services
The Weingarten Charitable Fund
The Weinstein Family Fund
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David and Susan Valdes Family Fund
The Wellness Community-South Bay Cities
The Van de Kamp Family Fund
West Hollywood Library Fund
Catherine Van Der Kar Scholarship Fund
The Pamela West Foundation
Carol Van Hoomissen Memorial/PLPG
Peace Fund
Steven & Elizabeth Westbrook Fund
Grant & Mary Van Hoose Memorial Fund
WestPark Capital Foundation
Ada Van Pelt Fund
What Kind Of World Do You Want Fund
Laurina Vandenhoff Fund
The Laura Schaefer White Fund
PFC James C. Vandeventer USMC
Scholarship Fund
The Whitney Family Fund
Venice High School Alumni Scholarship Fund
Alice G. Wilkins Fund
Ronald and Christina Vera Charitable Fund
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The Weiss Foundation
Westlake Neighborhood Network Fund
Ann Marie & Jack C. Wilder Charitable Fund
The Williams Family Fund
The Brenda B. Williams Charitable Fund
Windmill Links Community
Environmental Fund
Corie Williams Scholarship Fund
Sam Wineman Memorial Fund
Dagny H. Williams Fund
The Winston Family Fund
Serena Williams Fund
Gertrude S. Winter Fund
Ralph R. Willis Memorial Fund
The Wintner-Meisel Fund
Stephen C. Wilmans Memorial Fund
Wintrob Family Fund
The Anita B. Wilson Fund
Charles S. Wirick Fund
Hazel Eckhart Wilson Fund
Wirthwhile Fund
The Robert S. & Marion L. Wilson Fund
The Wirtschafter Family Foundation
William Porter Wise Fund
Wiseman Family Charitable Fund
Woman’s City Club of Venice Scholarship Fund
Women’s Architectural League/Beata Inaya
Scholarship Fund
REGIONAL
ENDOWMENTS
Women’s Improvement Club of Bishop
Scholarship Fund
The California Community Foundation supports these
Women’s University Club, Los Angeles Branch
of AAUW Fund
grants and training, to extend their reach and services
Myron Jay Wonders Fund for the Development
of Youth Lacrosse
foundations through planned giving, capacity-building
to their local communities.
The Wong Family Charitable Fund
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: E stablished in
Alan L. Wood Scholarship Fund
1999 and manages funds with assets of about $10 mil-
John R. Wooden Scholarship Fund
lion. E ncourages and facilitates charitable giving in the
James E. Woodford Fund
communities of the Coachella Valley.
World Preservation Fund
The Wu Family Charitable Fund
www.desertfoundation.org
Mary P. Wyatt P.V.H.S. Scholarship Fund
KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: Works to enhance
Noah S. Wyle Foundation
the quality of life for all people of Kern County.
www.kernfoundation.org
Y
The Yak Foundation
Yeah Foundation
The Yingling Family Fund
The You Me Fund
LONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: Founded
in 1996 by the E state Planning & Trust Council of Long
Beach and an advisory board of local community leaders
in collaboration with the California Community Founda-
Robert and Emilie R. Young Fund
tion. On July 1, 2007, it began operating as an inde-
YWCA Of the Foothills Fund
pendent and separate 501(c) (3) public-benefit charity
exclusively representing Greater Long Beach.
Z
www.longbeachcf.org
The Zar Family Foundation
SAN GABRIEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION:
Harriet F. Zaretsky Fund
E stablished in 2001, provides opportunities for donors,
The Zebrack Family Fund
service providers and community leaders to enrich all
The Jules Zentner Fund
Zimmerman Family Fund
Tashi G. Zouras Foundation
The Zukor Family Fund
San Gabriel residents. For more information, call
(213) 452-6266.
SIERRA MADRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION:
E stablished in 2000, its highest priority is to serve donors
wishing to preserve their philanthropic legacy within their
own community.
www.sierramadre.org/smcf
New Fund
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Since 1995, the Legacy Society honors
The following individuals have designated
Raissa and William C. Choi
forward-thinking people who leave an
an unrestricted gift to the California
John M. Claerhout
unrestricted gift to the California Com-
Community Foundation through a provi-
Steve and Helen Clarke
munity Foundation through a will or trust.
sion in a will or trust.
Karen S. Clements
Unrestricted gifts are a popular and easy
way to ensure contributions will support
programs that need it most. Legacy
dollars. That means gifts will support a
Marlene Altman
Robert W. and Judy E. Daggs
community need or priority identified by
Luis Felipe and Margia Dean Alvarez
Ann Daniel
the foundation’s board of directors, including
Richard E. Anderson and Alex Wentzel
Stanley Dashew
emergencies when disaster strikes, or any
Raffy Ardhaldjian
Rachel Davenport
of the foundation’s five issue areas, includ-
Barbara Arlow
Milton J. and Vivi Davidson
ing arts, education, health care, human
Dr. William C. Arterberry
Susan Strong Davis
development and neighborhood revitaliza-
Dorothy M. Bailey
Robert De Klotz, Ch.F.C.
tion. Flexible, strategic grantmaking is
Robert G. Bailey
Terry DeCrescenzo
vital to helping the foundation address
Gloria Balcom
John and Maxine Denham
Los Angeles’ current and future needs.
Robert A. and Linda Balkin
Ruth Dobbins
Francis Banks
Mary E. Dorwart
Judy and Charles W. Beck, Jr.
Annette M. Doyle
Burton E. and Geraldyn Belzer
Felicity Drukey
Wayne and Peggy Bemis
George A.V. Dunning
E. Kenneth Bennett and Richard P. Wagner
Clark Edwards
Joanne Berlin
Frederick R. and Harriet C. Eilber
Phyllis D. Bernard
George L. and Florence Elliott
Kendall R. and Diane Bishop
Gary E. Erickson
Leah M. Bishop and Gary M. Yale
Richard M. and Maude M. Ferry
Richard A. Blacker
Harold and Eleanore Foonberg
Claudette Blaylock
Beulah Frankel
Bruce Allen and Lizabeth Anne Boulware
Myrna Friedman
Elizabeth J. Brainard
Richard T. Gardner
Louise D. Brant
Daniel E. and Jane M. Garvey
William J. and Mona Brehm
Obren B. Gerich
Thomas Breslin
Dennis and Susi Gertmenian
Ann R. Britt
Eleanor Gibbel
Robert W. and Tatiana Brown
Michael R. and Camille A. Gillespie
Carolyn B. Byers
Elizabeth V. Gordon
Mavis Cain
Barry Greenberg
Carol Bradford at (213) 452-6266 or
[email protected].
— Planned Giving Tomorrow
Olive M. Canright
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Leamel A. Comparette
source of unrestricted and field of interest
Contact Director of Gift Planning
are by those 45 and younger.
Patricia and Ira Cohen
Don A. and Janice P. Cosby
HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER
15% of all planned gifts
The Honorable Jacob Adajian and
Kenia Cassareal, Ph.D.
Don Cohen
Kenneth C. Aldrich and
Yvonne Craig-Aldrich
Society gifts are the foundation’s biggest
LEGACY
SOCIETY
Dr. Arnold R. Abrams
Joan Crishal
Ken Gregorio
Jack Kramer
Harold and Sydelle S. Orchid
Carl and Lindsey Stammerjohn
Kenneth L. Gross
Tig and Bliss Krekel
Pat L. Patterson
Peter and Cam Starrett
Mel Guzman
Francis X. Pendarvis
Drs. Mary and Floyd Stauffer
Patricia and Frank R. Hall
The Honorable Stephen Lachs and
Michael Ruvo
David A. Peters
William A. Stephens, Esq.
Suzy Hamblen
Thornton Ladd
Chet and Jan Pipkin
Clay Stevens and Aaron L. Tallent
Gaye Harris
Dave and Suzanne R. Larky
James E. Plunkett
Sheldon M. and Cynthia H. Stone
Dr. B.J. Hawkins
Ellen R. Larson
Philip and Zuzka Polishook
Dr. John M. and Sheila Suarez
Martha L. Haymaker
Rubin M. and Serene Lazar
Charles Pollock
Ray and Jean Summers
Alan R. and Lynn D. Hendershot
Ernest Lieblich
Louise Van Rees Powers
John A. Sussman and Donna S. Sussman
Rosalyn S. Heyman and Peter M. Showan
Charles S. and Marilynn Lisberger
Brenda Premo
Katherine Swain
Leonard Hill
J.C. and Sybil J. Low
Douglas O. and Whitney G. Raleigh
Jill Switzer
Ruth and Norbert Hillecke
Joe and Denise Lumarda
Marvin Recknor
Clinton C. Ternstrom
Arthur L. and Muriel Hillson
William and Joan Luther
Nigel A. Renton
Christina V. Coyle and Mark Thomas
Stephen F Hinchliffe, Jr.
Samuel B. Lutz
Roger Richman
Mary Ellen Thomas
Martha B. Hogan
Jayne A. Major, Ph.D.
Cira Ross
Dottie and John Toomey
Walter J. Holiday
Jeffrey M. Mandell and Abigail A. Jones
Joel Safranek
Dr. Nicholas W. and Sophie M. Tschoegl
Philip and Gertrude Holland
George and Edie Manet
Elizabeth L. Samson
Richard C. Voorhies
Norma L. Horrocks
Sati R. and Ram Manvi
Jay and Linda Sandrich
Roberta Wakefield
Bernice Horst
Ian Marsh
Lucille Saunders
Howard N. Walter
Robert K. Howard
Victoria Martin and Preston L. Johnson
Chester and Wanda Schaffer
Shana L. Warshaw-Maggard
Steve and Linda Ioerger
Raul Martinez
Thomas Schumacher and Matthew White
Thomas J. Whalley
Florence and Jack H. Irving
Les Martisko, Ph.D.
Emanuel Schweid
Victor P. and Peggy Whitney
Karen J. Irving
Kevin P. and Anna Maria McGuan
Susan M. Scribner
Jim and Sharon Williams
Michael W. Irving
Terrance and Linda Puls McGuire
Cathy and Barry Sedlik
Mark Wisneski and Ronald Kollen
Joan and Julian Isen
Elaine P. Meitus
Robert and Jeanne Segal
Maxine D. Wolf
Mr. and Mrs. Tatsuo Ishizu
Dick Metz
Jack Shakely
Isamu and Haruko Yamashita
Gunvant P. and Kumee Jani
Raphael Metzger
Grace Shammas
Victor and Hannah Zaccaglin
Dr. Ronald P. Jensen and
Dr. Alexa C. Jensen
Faye Miller
Kathleen K. Sharpe
Eugene Ziff
Sil Miller and Eugene Woynoski
Dr. Ann Shaw
Robert L. and June Isaacson Kailes
Sunny Miller
Edward B. Shaw
Dr. Stephen A. Kanter
Leonard and Lucy Muskin
Linda Shestock
Jonathan and Nancy Kaye
Bernie Nadel
Rocco C. and Marion Stiebel Siciliano
Sharon Keith
Doreen Nelson
Angel Silva
Eve W. Kilger
John Neufeld
Elvira Silva
Karen W. King
Michael E. and Dale Nissenson
Gerald M. and Lillian Singer
Harry J. Kline
Lilly C. Nomura
Jean Bixby Smith
David H. Kobrin
Herbert V. and Elinor Nootbaar
Mountfort H. and Lynda Smith
Junko Koike
Eloise H. Olson
Wuzzy Spaulding
Mark L. Kovinsky and
Susan Gold-Kovinsky
Gordon and Rosie Ornelas Olson
Richard and Nancy Spelke
New Member
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FIVE-YEAR HISTORY OF ASSETS, CONTRIBUTIONS & GRANTS
Following are charts that compare the assets, contributions and grants for the past five
years (as of June 2008, in thousands).
ASSETS
FY
FINANCIAL
SUMMARIES
$671,027
2004
$762,726
2005
$1,152,602
2006
$1,314,579
2007
$1,257,905
2008
FINANCIAL REPORTS
CONTRIBUTIONS
BALANCE SHEET (IN THOUSANDS)
ASSETS
Cash and investments
Receivables and other assets
TOTAL ASSETS
FY 2008
FY 2007
FY
1,196,050
1,254,653
2004
61,855
59,926
1,257,905
1,314,579
2005
$143,637
$136,715
$466,617
2006
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Liabilities
184,362
154,037
Net assets
1,073,543
1,160,542
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
1,257,905
1,314,579
FY 2008
FY 2007
151,856
234,656
FY
2004
INCOME STATEMENT (IN THOUSANDS)
Contributions
Other revenues
2008
$151,856
GRANTS
(10,452)
143,528
(220,064)
(245,487)
(8,339)
(28,274)
2005
$94,475
(86,999)
104,423
2006
$94,408
NET ASSETS AT BEGINNING OF YEAR
1,160,542
1,056,119
NET ASSETS AT END OF YEAR
1,073,543
1,160,542
Grants
Other activities, net
(Decrease)/Increase in net assets
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$234,656
2007
2007
2008
$61,031
$245,487
$220,064
The California Community Foundation works with an independent public accounting firm to perform an audit of its records and financial statements. A full copy of the audited financial statements is available online at www.calfund.org or by calling (213) 413-4130.
The above abbreviated financial reports are unaudited.
ASSETS, CONTRIBUTIONS AND GRANTS BY FUND TYPE
INVESTMENTS
(as of June 2008, in thousands)
As the fiduciary for charitable funds, the foundation is responsible for ensuring its
investment strategy aligns with the charitable purposes and philanthropic goals of a
fund. To enhance efficiency and reduce the cost of operations, contributions to funds
are pooled with donations from other donors for investment management and adminis-
16%
trative purposes. Upon creating a fund, the foundation assigns it to one of the following
8%
pools.
39%
7%
ASSETS
30%
PERMANENT POOL: invested for long-term growth and appreciation across multiple
Board Discretionary
$495,316
investment managers. The current target asset allocation of this pool is 50 percent
Donor Advised
$377,138
domestic and international equities, 20 percent fixed-income and 30 percent alterna-
Scholarships
$88,560
Supporting Organizations
Special Projects & Other
TOTAL
$100,809
196,082
$1,257,905
tive investment strategies.
SOCIALLY-RESPONSIBLE POOL: invested for multiple social screens and a long-term
investment objective, with an asset allocation of approximately 70 percent equities
and 30 percent fixed-income investments.
SHORT-TERM LIQUIDITY POOL: designed for funds with short-term purposes or goals.
9%
23%
Its holdings include money market, commercial paper and short-term bonds with a
goal of principal preservation and income generation.
1%
2%
CONTRIBUTIONS
65%
PERMANENT POOL ASSET ALLOCATION
Board Discretionary
$12,912
Donor Advised
$99,734
Scholarships
$3,713
TOTAL
21%
27%
23%
29%
$625
$34,872
US Equity
Non-US Equity
Fixed Income
Alternative Investments
$151,856
The foundation’s one, three and five year investment returns for the three pools are
2%
7%
10%
presented below (as of June 2008).
11%
One Year
Three Year
Five Year
Permanent Pool
(0.81%)
8.50%
10.29%
*Total Fund Benchmark
(0.82%)
8.09%
9.77%
Socially-Responsible Pool
(9.60%)
3.10%
5.55%
70% S&P 500 + 30% LBAB
(7.10%)
4.30%
6.50%
Short-Term Liquidity Pool
4.70%
4.70%
3.30%
Merrill Lynch 91-Day T-Bills
3.60%
4.30%
3.20%
GRANTS
70%
Board Discretionary
Donor Advised
Scholarships
$23,350
$153,704
$3,983
$16,263
$22,764
TOTAL
$220,064
* Total Fund Benchmark is a combination of: 10/01/06: 30% Russell 3000/30% MSCI ACW ex US/ 15% ML T-Bills
+ 5%/ 5% CPI-U+ 5%/ 20%
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CHAIR
Jane B. Eisner
President
The Eisner Foundation
MEMBERS
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
David Bohnett
Managing Member
Baroda Ventures
Melanie Staggs
Advisory Board
Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network
Sheldon Stone
Principal
Oaktree Capital Management, LLC.
Reveta Bowers
Head of School
The Center for Early Education
Cynthia Telles
Director of the Spanish Speaking
Psychosocial Clinic
UCLA School of Medicine
David W. Fleming
Counsel
Latham & Watkins, LLP
Catherine L. Unger
Consultant, Public Affairs
Dennis Gertmenian
Founder
Ready Pac Foods
Antonia Hernández
President and CEO
California Community Foundation
Preston Johnson
President and Founder
Johnson Martin Advisors, Inc.
Joanne Corday Kozberg
Principal
California Strategies
Quan Phung
Television Producer
Dr. Carolina Reyes
Executive Director
LA Best Babies Network
James M. Rosser
President
California State University, Los Angeles
Paul Schulz
Chief Executive Officer
American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles
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Jean Bixby Smith
Chairman and President
Alamitos Land Company
Tom Unterman
Partner
Rustic Canyon Partners
Sonia Marie De León de Vega
Executive Director
Santa Cecilia Orchestra
Ronald T. Vera
Partner
Gutierrez and Vera, LLP
GENERAL COUNSEL
William C. Choi
Rodriguez, Horii, Choi and Cafferata LLP
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND
ADMINISTRATION
Gabriele Burkard
Project Manager,
Community Experience Partnership
Sandy Escobedo
Joan Palevsky Fellow –
Preschool Advocacy Initiative
STAFF
Linda Itson
Receptionist
Silvana Miller
Director of Human Resources
Virginia Mosqueda
Director of Civic Engagement
Leondra Rachal
Human Resources Assistant
EXTERNAL AND DONOR RELATIONS
FINANCE
Edgar Aguirre
Gift Planning Officer
Roy Allen
Investment Analyst
Carol Bradford
Director of Gift Planning
Steve Cobb
Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
Patrice Cablayan
Donor and Prospect Research
Manager
Yvonne Dennis
Finance Assistant
Namju Cho
Director of Communications
Michael Dobson
Accountant
Gerlie Collado
Communications Associate
Elizabeth Hernandez
Accountant
Natalie Cowan-Birch
Gift Planning Assistant
Christopher Hubbard
Grants Coordinator
Amy Fackelmann
Director of Donor Relations
Agnes Luansing
Accounting Manager,
Financial Reporting
Melina Sanchez
Field Director – Preschool
Advocacy Initiative
Courtney Gross
Donor Relations Associate
Stephanie Talavera-Castillo
Administration Assistant
Agnes Hess
Special Events Coordinator &
Assistant to the Senior Vice President
Linda J. Wong
Vice President of Civic
Engagement and Administration
Olivia Koran
Grants Coordinator
Summer Moore
Accounting Officer,
Operations
John E. Kobara
Senior Vice President,
External and Donor Relations
Jilma Rodriguez
Accountant
Barry Peterson
Gift Planning Officer
Carolyn Steffen
Controller
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
LAND TRUST
Chris Salazar
Scholarship Administrator
Teresita Vega
Network Coordinator
Rosie Diaz
Project Coordinator
Greg Shepard
Donor Fund Operations
Supervisor
Emily Zietlow
Grants Coordinator
Shirley J. Young
Office Manager
Lynn Hansen
Director, Project Management
Ann Sewill
President, Community Foundation
Land Trust
Denise Tom
Writer/Editor
Josh Wright
Donor and Prospect
Research Coordinator
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GRAND AVENUE COMMITTEE
Susanne Kerenyi
Project Coordinator
Martha Welborne
Managing Director
PRESIDENT’S OFFICE
STAFF
(continued)
Antonia Hernández
President & Chief Executive Officer
Karla Hernandez
Executive Secretary
Terri Mosqueda
Board/Community Relations Liaison
PROGRAMS
Rosie Arroyo
Joan Palevsky Fellow –
Community Building Initiative
Jolene S. Chavira
Program Officer, Education
Cathy Choi
Program Officer, Special Grants
Pamela Davis
Program Assistant
Vera de Vera
Director of Grants
Yamileth Guevara
Program Officer,
Neighborhood Revitalization
Leslie Ito
Program Officer, Arts
Tamu Jones
Program Officer, Health Care
Robert Lewis
Program Officer,
Human Development
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Alvertha Penny
Vice President of Programs
Richard Ruiz
Program Assistant
Shantelice White
Grants Specialist
Elva Yañez
Project Director,
Community Building Initiative
LEARN MORE, GET INVOLVED
CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
To find out more about how the California Community Foundation can help you give
Production Supervisor: Namju Cho
back to your most passionate causes and improve Los Angeles, call any of our
Editors/Writers: Namju Cho, Gerlie Collado, Rachael Sonntag-Bloom, Denise Tom
experts below at (213) 413-4130.
Design: orabor www.orabor.com
Carol Bradford, director of gift planning, [email protected]
Edgar Aguirre, gift planning officer, [email protected]
Photography: Brian Forrest (cover)
Printing: Typecraft, Wood & Jones, Pasadena, Calif.
Barry Peterson, gift planning officer, [email protected]
To support our CCF Priorities fund or receive our e-newsletter and any of the
following publications, call (213) 413-4130 or visit www.calfund.org.
• Arts & Culture: Advancing our Communities’ Creative Voices
• Charitable Fund Guidelines
• Grant Guidelines
The California Community Foundation meets the most rigorous standards in philanthropy and complies with the National Standards of U.S. Community Foundations, administered by the Council on Foundations, a membership organization of more than 2,000
• Profiles in Giving
grantmaking foundations and giving programs worldwide. This affirms CCF’s commitment
• Solutions: A Journal of the California Community Foundation (Summer 2008)
to financial security, transparency and accountability. The foundation’s competitive
grantmaking includes an open process designed to address Los Angeles’ changing
needs. The seal also confirms the foundation’s history of honoring donors’ wishes — to
ensure healthy, engaged and diverse communities.
This annual report is printed on Endeavour Velvet. This recycled product is FSC certified,
acid free, and contains 25% post-consumer recycled waste.
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THE
AMERICAN
DREAM
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY
FOUNDATION
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