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Long Beach Community Foundation
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About Long Beach Community Foundation
The Long Beach Community Foundation's mission is to initiate positive change for Long Beach through charitable giving, stewardship, and strategic grantmaking.
Focus Areas
Long Beach community needsYouth education and engagementScholarshipsEnvironmental conservation and wetland restorationCivic engagementEconomic mobilityNonprofit capacity and local grantmaking
Who They Fund
underserved K-12 children (Long Beach)high-risk youth and their familiesstudents/scholars (scholarship and fellowship recipients)military families / Fisher House beneficiarieslocal Long Beach community organizations
About Long Beach Community Foundation
A defining feature of Long Beach Community Foundation is its mix of discretionary community funds, donor-advised style field funds, and named scholarship and preservation programs that channel giving into Long Beach priorities. Among its largest recent awards, it committed $876,294 to the Csulb 49er Foundation for general support and $809,122 to the Immigrant Defenders Law Center as a closing fund distribution, showing both institutional support and end-of-fund administration. The foundation also backs community institutions across education, health, arts, and civic life, including the University of Southern California, Meals on Wheels West, and the Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation. Its program list points to a broad local role: scholarships for students, emergency relief during COVID-19, support for the Los Cerritos Wetlands, and grantmaking for historic preservation through the Long Beach Navy Memorial Heritage Association Grants. With annual grants of $12.8 million and assets of $74.7 million, it operates at a scale that reaches both large anchor organizations and smaller place-based efforts. The pattern is less about a single issue than about funding several layers of community infrastructure in Long Beach.
What Long Beach Community Foundation Funds
Education is a clear throughline. The foundation awarded $876,294 to the Csulb 49er Foundation for general support and $321,446 to the same grantee in 2025 to support the women’s tennis program. It also gave $502,300 to Precious Lamb Preschool Inc for general support and $107,850 to Tichenor Orthopedic Clinic for Children for general support. Scholarship support is another recurring lane, including the Cathy and Peter Ridder Scholarship Fund for Long Beach City College students and, starting in 2025, California State University, Long Beach School of Nursing students. Community infrastructure and public life are also prominent. Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation received $565,000 for general support, Long Beach Symphony Association received $104,634 in 2024, and Aquarium of the Pacific received $76,800 in 2025. Civic and economic work appears in grants such as $300,000 to the City of Long Beach and $80,000 to the Long Beach Economic Partnership.
How Long Beach Community Foundation Gives
Typical award size sits at $8,000 at the 25th percentile, $12,584 at the median, and $32,000 at the 75th percentile, even though some awards are much larger. The grant list shows repeated support to the same recipients across years, including Csulb 49er Foundation, University of Southern California, Memorial Medical Center Foundation, Long Beach Symphony Association, and the City of Long Beach. That points to an ongoing annual distribution pattern rather than isolated one-off grants. The foundation is a mixed community foundation, and its active funds include board-directed discretionary programs, a community endowment, scholarship funds, and donor-designated field funds. Several programs accept unsolicited requests, while the Long Beach Navy Memorial Heritage Association Grants use a two-stage process with a Letter of Intent followed by invited full proposals.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$5M
Total Assets
$74.7M
Total Revenue
$8.2M
Total Expenses
$7.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $8K and $32K, with a median of $13K.
25th Percentile
$8K
Median
$13K
75th Percentile
$32K
Geographic Reach
Local13 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
MARCELLE EPLEY
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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