Eighteen-year-old Ethan Yochum is a recent graduate of El Dorado High School in Placentia. He is attending the University of Los Angeles (UCLA) as a freshman this fall. He says his philanthropic work began in 2021 with his work with Boxes of Love and the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Among his many awards are The California State Seal of Civic Engagement, El Dorado High School Spirit of Commitment Award, El Dorado High School’s Male Scholar Athlete of the Year, El Dorado High School’s Terry Conley Athlete of Character Award. “Giving to me can be carried out in many forms, yet I [...]

Tarsadia Foundation is a family foundation working to unleash human potential across the globe alongside a network of 100+ impact partners who are driving meaningful change and catalyzing systemic progress across four core impact pillars: Inclusive Mobility, Crises & Threats, Human Transformation, and India Upliftment. The foundation was founded by BU and Puspha Patel, immigrant entrepreneurs from rural India, who arrived in California the 1970s and got their start in the hotel industry. Over the years, the family diversified their investments and in 2009, the Patels established the Tarsadia Foundation to give back to the communities they came from – [...]

Brothers Ed and Mingo Lee and Wing Lam co-founded Wahoo’s Fish Tacos in 1988, and it has become one of the most iconic fast-casual restaurant brands in the Southern California and beyond. Totally committed to giving back to the community, the brothers give individually and through the Wahoos Family Foundation. The roots of their giving lie in gratitude – a gratitude for the chance to make a meaningful impact in the community that has embraced them. Among the many nonprofits they support are the Thomas House Shelter in Garden Grove, Doctors Without Borders, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Someone Cares Soup [...]

NHL All-Star and 2007 Stanley Cup Champion Ryan Getzlaf and his wife Paige have been incredibly generous to community nonprofits. They sponsored the first Getzlaf Golf Shootout in 2011, which has raised more than $5.3 million to fund early-stage research and advance a cure for boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. While with the Ducks, Ryan shared the Anaheim Ducks Foundation mission of broadening access to the sport of hockey by supporting the Anaheim Ducks Learn to Play program, which offers first-time hockey players the chance to get on the rink in full hockey equipment for free. To date, 18,000 kids [...]

Orange County Grantmakers is the regional philanthropic serving organizations for Orange County. A fiscally-sponsored project of charitable ventures, OCG was established in 2006 by a committed group of local funders who saw the need for collaboration and alignment within the philanthropic sector. Initially serving as a peer-networking group, OCG has grown to now support more than 70+ meetings and programs annually. It is, at its core, a convener – bringing together nonprofits and philanthropic leaders around the issues, and believes they can leverage and align philanthropic efforts to have a greater impact on the community. They provide a space for [...]

My Private Professor, LLX+C (MPP) is an impact-driven, educational services company that partners with individual and institutional clients to provide a critical academic resource to thousands of students across the country and gives back with every hour to provide free tutoring to students experiencing homelessness. MPP has partnered with Illumination Foundation, SAHARA and the Boys and Girls Clubs to provide free weekly tutoring to students in underserved communities, including those residing in emergency shelters. Additionally, MPP is a longtime supporter of initiatives benefiting students and teachers at Tustin Public Schools Foundation and the Orangewood Foundation’s Samueli Academy through free tutoring, [...]

Casanova//McCann is a female and minority-owned Advertising Agency specializing in the US Hispanic market. Headquartered in Costa Mesa, the agency was founded in Orange County almost 40 years ago and today is one of the leading Latino ad agencies in the country. Casanova employs 70+ people in Costa Mesa, Detroit, and New York and works with clients such as Activision Blizzard, Nestle USA, Chevrolet, U.S. Postal Service, Pernod Ricard, U.S. Bank, The Wine Group, and several others. Casanova also does pro-bono work for nonprofit organizations such as Donate Life CA, OC LGBTQ Center, Brady Organization, Angel Flight West, and Oasis [...]

Leona and her husband Jack moved to Orange County in 1998, with her husband passing away after 40 years of marriage soon after they arrived. In 2002, her life began again with husband Joe Sadacca, and in 2007, she retired from Gate City Beverage Company as President/CEO, as well as an insurance company, leasing company, non-alcoholic beverage company and a trucking company. Her philanthropic life began at an early age and includes, among many organizations, Hebrew Union College, Think Together, American Heart Assoc., the Leona Aronoff Rabbinic Mentoring Program, Temple Bat Yahm, Pacific Symphony, South Coast Repertory, and the Jewish [...]