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2025 Grant Cycle Recipients

The ��Ӱҵ Foundation’s Annual Grant Cycle opens every year from July 15-August 15, with grants awarded the following January. Online grant applications are accepted from eligible nonprofits seeking funds for programs or capital projects, working to help underserved communities in Orange County, CA, Omaha, NE, and Lynchburg, VA. Our 2025 Grant Cycle recipients received more than $2.5 million in grants and included 141 nonprofit partners working in the areas of arts and culture; civic, community & economic development; education; health and human services; and the environment. We are proud to support the work they do to have a positive impact on those most underserved.

Arts and Culture

$10,000+

•	Bowers Museum	$15,000
•	Friends of Santa Ana Zoo	$15,000
•	Joslyn Art Museum	$15,000
•	Omaha Symphony	$15,000
•	Orange County Museum of Art	$15,000
•	Pacific Chorale	$15,000
•	Pacific Symphony	$15,000
•	Pretend City Children's Museum/Capital Grant*	$200,000
•	Pretend City Children's Museum	$15,000
•	South Coast Repertory	$20,000
•	UCI Foundation/Claire Trevor School of the Arts	$15,000

$10,000 or Less

•	Newport Beach Public Library Foundation	$10,000
•	Omaha Conservatory of Music	$10,000
•	Omaha Theater Company	$10,000
•	Sherman Library and Gardens	��$5,000

Civic, Community & Economic Development

$10,000+

•	CIELO	$15,000
•	Hope Builders	$15,000
•	OneOC��	$15,000

$10,000 or Less

•	Avenue Scholars Foundation	$10,000
•	Coro Southern California	$10,000
•	Public Policy Institute of California	$10,000
•	United Way of the Midlands/JAG Nebraska	$10,000
•	Working Wardrobes	$10,000

Education

$10,000+

•	Amazement Square	$12,500
•	Arts & Learning Conservatory	$15,000
•	Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire	$15,000
•	Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lynchburg	$15,000
•	Boys & Girls Clubs of Capistrano Valley	$15,000
•	Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Orange Coast	$20,000
•	Boys & Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley	$15,000
•	Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands - Omaha, NE	$15,000
•	Boys Town	$15,000
•	California State University, Fullerton/School of Risk Management & Insurance	$20,000
•	Child Creativity Lab	$15,000
•	Discovery Cube Orange County	$15,000
•	Environmental Nature Center	$15,000
•	Girls Inc. of Orange County	$15,000
•	Junior Achievement of Orange County	$15,000
•	Kids Can Community Center	$15,000
•	KidWorks	$15,000
•	Latino Center of the Midlands	$15,000
•	Lynchburg Beacon of Hope	$15,000
•	MIND Research Institute	$15,000
•	NorthStar Foundation	$15,000
•	Ocean Institute	$15,000
•	PBS SoCal	$15,000
•	Project Hope Alliance	$15,000
•	The American College of Financial Services	$15,000
•	The Wooden Floor	$15,000
•	Think Together	$20,000
•	UCI Foundation/UCI-OC Alliance	$25,000
•	UCI Foundation/UCI Science Project	$15,000

$10,000 or Less

•	Advancing Women in Technology	$5,000
•	Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach	$10,000
•	Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands - Columbia, SC	$10,000
•	Constitutional Rights Foundation, Orange County	$10,000
•	Girl Scouts of South Carolina-Mountains to Midlands	$10,000
•	Jubilee Family Development Center	$10,000
•	Special Olympics Nebraska��	$10,000
•	The Actuarial Foundation	$10,000
•	The CdM Foundation	$5,000

Environment, Ocean Health & Marine Mammals

$10,000+

•	Aquarium of the Pacific	$15,000
•	Pacific Marine Mammal Center	$15,000

$10,000 or Less

•	Newport Bay Conservancy	$10,000
•	The Ecology Center	$10,000

Health Services

$10,000+

•	Alzheimer's Association, Orange County Chapter	$15,000
•	Camino Health Center	$15,000
•	CHOC Foundation	$20,000
•	Easterseals Southern California	$15,000
•	Healthy Smiles for Kids of Orange County	$15,000
•	Laguna Beach Community Clinic	$15,000
•	Lestonnac Free Clinic/Lestonnac Free Surgery Center Capital Grant*	$75,000
•	LGBTQ Center OC	$15,000
•	MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center Foundation	$15,000
•	Miracles for Kids	$15,000
•	MOMS Orange County	$15,000
•	OneWorld Community Health Centers	$15,000
•	Project Harmony	$15,000
•	Radiant Health Centers	$15,000
•	Special Olympics Orange County	$15,000
•	UCI Foundation/UC Irvine Diabetes Center	$20,000
•	YMCA of Orange County	$15,000

$10,000 or Less

•	Project Gallantly Forward	$10,000
•	Susan G. Komen Orange County	$10,000
•	Unlimited Possibilities	$10,000
•	Visiting Nurse Association	$10,000

Human Services

$10,000+

•	Age Well Senior Services	$15,000
•	American Red Cross/Disaster Responder Program	$250,000
•	American Red Cross of Blue Ridge Virginia	$15,000
•	American Red Cross of Omaha/Council Bluffs Metro	$15,000
•	American Red Cross, Orange County Chapter	$15,000
•	Beyond Blindness/Capital Grant*	$100,000
•	Beyond Blindness	$15,000
•	Bracken's Kitchen	$15,000
•	Canine Companions Southwest Regional Training Center	$20,000
•	CASA for Douglas County	$15,000
•	CASA of Central Virginia	$15,000
•	CASA of Orange County	$15,000
•	Child Saving Institute	$15,000
•	Council on Aging - Southern California	$15,000
•	Families Forward	$15,000
•	Food Finders	$15,000
•	Foodbank for the Heartland/Capital Grant*	$1,000,000
•	Friendly Center	$12,500
•	Friendship Shelter	$15,000
•	Goodwill of Orange County	$15,000
•	Greater Lynchburg Habitat for Humanity	$15,000
•	HomeAid America	$20,000
•	HomeAid Orange County	$15,000
•	Human Options	$15,000
•	Illumination Foundation	$15,000
•	Interval House	$15,000
•	Intervention Center for Early Childhood	$12,500
•	Jewish Child and Family Services of Chicago	$15,000
•	Laura's House	$15,000
•	Meals on Wheels Orange County	$15,000
•	Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center	$15,000
•	Orange County United Way	$20,000
•	Orangewood Foundation	$15,000
•	Saving Grace Perishable Food Rescue	$15,000
•	Share Ourselves	$15,000
•	Someone Cares Soup Kitchen	$15,000
•	SPIN	$12,500
•	Support The Enlisted Project	$15,000
•	The Priority Center	$15,000
•	United Way of Central Virginia	$15,000
•	United Way of the Midlands	$20,000
•	WISEPlace	$15,000

$10,000 or Less

•	Animal Charity Evaluators	$5,000
•	Casa Youth Shelter	$10,000
•	Heart Ministry Center	$10,000
•	Heartland Hope Mission	$10,000
•	Laguna Food Pantry	$10,000
•	Lynchburg Daily Bread	$10,000
•	Lynchburg Grows	$10,000
•	MICAH House	$10,000
•	Ollie Webb Center	$10,000
•	Pathways of Hope	$10,000
•	Project Youth OC	$10,000
•	Ronald McDonald House Charities in Omaha	$10,000
•	South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families	$10,000
•	Step Up at Heroes Landing	$10,000
•	The Autism Community in Action	$10,000
•	Whispering Roots	$10,000

GRANT CYCLE AND AWARD RECIPIENTS OVERVIEW

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