Fund Catalog

Airport Noise Ordinance Neighborhood Impact Fund

The Airport Noise Ordinance Neighborhood Impact Fund was created with fines paid by airlines who have violated noise restrictions at the Long Beach Airport. These charitable dollars can be used to fund programs and projects that benefit residents located within the flight path area.

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Angels Gate Reserve Fund

Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC) is a place that unites art, community, and culture through creative discovery, exploration, and enlightenment. Our mission is to provide space for artists to work and to engage the community through arts education, exhibitions of contemporary art, and cultural events. We serve over 4000 elementary school students in Long Beach and LAUSD with arts residencies each year. The Center emerged from a group of San Pedro artists in the 1970s that created artist studios and exhibition space within the 1940’s era Army barracks of Angels Gate Park. The core of AGCC arts education programming is the Artists-in-Classroom (AIC) program, which places professional artists in classrooms to provide an enriched skill-based arts education. Angels Gate Cultural Center is home to four galleries, focused on showcasing new works by contemporary artists. AGCC pursues opportunities to hire outside curators and commission artists in its effort to support the vibrancy of Southern California’s art landscape.

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Historical Society of Long Beach Trust Fund

The Historical Society of Long Beach collects, preserves, and presents local history. We present an inclusive community narrative and help create a greater understanding of our neighborhoods, the city, and its place in the larger world. Through our programs, rotating exhibitions, and collections we engage the community in thinking about what makes Long Beach unique.

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LBCF Community Impact Fund

Long Beach is a special place … it’s a cosmopolitan city, a thriving port, a hub for arts and culture, a venue for sports, recreation, and entertainment, an education center, a beachfront paradise, and a unique array of diverse neighborhoods. Your gift to the Long Beach Community Foundation Impact Fund is an efficient, caring, responsible way to provide for the future of this great community. Our community needs are constantly changing and the LBCF Impact Fund changes to meet those needs. Since its inception, the Foundation’s discretionary grants have included the following areas: Arts and Culture, Community Improvement and Development, Diversity and Human Relations, Economic Self-Sufficiency, Gang Prevention and Intervention, Health and Human Services, Literacy and Literacy Training, Parenting Education, Services to Senior Citizens, Violence Prevention, Youth Programs, and Housing and Homelessness. Each year, the Foundation’s Board of Directors determines suitable areas of focus for discretionary grantmaking from the Impact Fund. The Board searches for nonprofit organizations that can provide services to meet critical, new, and emerging community needs. No attempt is made to replace ongoing public support for successful organizations. Instead, grants help local nonprofits leverage their resources in a way that improves the conditions of our great city. As the corpus grows, more needs will be met.

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Long Beach Crime Prevention Fund

The Long Beach Crime Prevention Fund is dedicated to supporting a broad range of efforts by the Long Beach City Prosecutor’s Office. These activities include but are not limited to, efforts to: eliminate crime engage in educational, anti-truancy, intervention or gang prevention efforts benefiting youth, especially youth considered at-risk engage in crime prevention efforts and strategies improve the effectiveness of law enforcement and criminal prosecution, including training and education educate the public about crime or violence prevention discourage and disrupt gang recruitment and suppress gang activity assist in reentry and rehabilitation of justice-involved persons, such as tattoo removal reduce visible blight, especially in areas known to be high crime areas encourage and incentivize the participation of others to assist the City Prosecutor’s Office in the aforementioned activities

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Long Beach Disaster Relief Fund

The Long Beach Disaster Relief Fund (LBDRF) provides funding to approved 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, governmental, or educational institutions that provide disaster-related relief to Long Beach residents. Residents impacted by county, state, and federally declared disasters, such as the 2006 Paradise Gardens Apartment fire, the 2015 Downtown Power outage, and the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic are examples of grant eligibility from this fund. Beginning in March 2020, LBDRF supported community-based organizations at the frontlines of the coronavirus response in the Long Beach area. Over $1.2 million was granted to groups that provided community members with food, rental assistance, critical expenses, sanitation supplies, and more.

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Long Beach Rescue Mission Fund

Since 1972, Long Beach Rescue Mission has opened its doors to thousands of men, women, and children. The Mission provides food, clothing, shelter, and spiritual guidance to the homeless and less fortunate people of the community. Long Beach Rescue Mission stands dedicated to helping individuals overcome the homeless cycle, achieve long-term goals, and make a world of difference in today’s society. The Mission provides meals and worship services in the evenings and on Sundays to senior citizens and neighborhood families. It provides loving care and spiritual guidance to help people who are homeless find purpose, direction, and hope.

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Mayor's Fund for Homeless Action

Give to the Mayor’s Fund for Homeless Action (previously known as the Mayor’s Fund to End Homelessness) to help realize the City’s vision that the experience of homelessness in Long Beach will be rare and brief. Your tax-deductible donation supports homeless services in Long Beach. The City of Long Beach implements a data-informed, innovative, multi-faceted strategy toward ending homelessness in the city. Contributions support the City and its partners in their efforts to house individuals and families experiencing homelessness, and to provide access to transportation services, medical care, mental health services, substance treatment, and more. Donations to the Mayor’s Fund for Homeless Action also support prevention. Prevention is essential to keeping people from falling into homelessness and it is one of the least-funded efforts nationally. Prevention services provide increased support for families and people in crisis and can prevent vulnerable seniors, families, veterans, and youth from falling into homelessness. The Mayor’s Fund for Homeless Action is a key component of the City’s initiative, Everyone Home Long Beach, which identifies new and innovative solutions to reduce homelessness, including prevention, services, and connections to housing. It takes everyone in our community to make a difference. Join us today and help put an end to homelessness in Long Beach.

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National Philanthropy Day Fund

The Long Beach Community Foundation (LBCF) annually selects a nonprofit to be the beneficiary of its National Philanthropy Day project. It is LBCF’s goal to work in partnership with the awarded nonprofit to provide project funding, volunteers, and the needed resources to provide a one-day facelift. This is part of the larger national initiative that is celebrated each fall.

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Partners of Parks

Partners of Parks’ mission is to support the development, maintenance, and enhancement of park assets and recreation programs in Long Beach, CA through fundraising, education, and advocacy. We support the programs, operations, and development of local parks.

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Rancho Los Cerritos Foundation Fund

All funds will go directly toward our endowment to preserve Rancho Los Cerritos. The vision of Rancho Los Cerritos is to inspire curiosity and respect for the past, to enrich understanding of the present, to develop an excitement for the future, and to connect people with community, history, and culture. The mission of Rancho Los Cerritos is to restore and preserve the structure and grounds; collect appropriate resources; and interpret the relationship of the Rancho’s diverse peoples, from Native American times through the 1940s and the development of the Long Beach area. Rancho Los Cerritos Foundation is a non-profit corporation with an all-volunteer Board of Directors, and it employs a small professional staff to oversee daily operations. Donations to the foundation support restoration and enhancement projects, physical and environmental improvements, and interpretive and educational programming.

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Rebuilding Together Long Beach Fund

Rebuilding Together Long Beach (RTLB) is repairing homes, revitalizing communities, and rebuilding lives. Most RTLB homeowner recipients are elderly, many are disabled, and all are low-income: The median annual income of RTLB homeowners in 2017 was just over $15,000. RTLB’s community revitalization work focuses on assisting nonprofits and neighborhood associations, projects which can positively affect the lives of several hundred or even several thousand individuals. Whether RTLB is re-roofing or re-plumbing a home, building a wheelchair ramp, creating a playground for children, or installing security lighting, they offer services at no cost to recipients. RTLB’s vision statement reflects the ultimate goal: Safe homes and communities for everyone. To achieve this, RTLB relies on the support of those individuals and corporations that want to make a difference in the lives of those who need it most.

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