The Corona del Mar-based Samueli Foundation has made its largest single day tranche of grant announcements in organizational history, alerting 138 Orange County-serving nonprofit organizations that they are grant recipients from the newly created Breakaway Fund.
The Breakaway Fund launched in May with a $5 million budget, but the Samueli Foundation upped its donations to over $11 million in recognition of urgent community-based need and the overall quality of the applications received.
More than 75 percent of the awardees have never received funding from the Samueli Foundation…