Foundation

Since its founding in 1985, the Orange Coast College Foundation has received gifts valued at over $155 million that includes cash gifts of over $70 million, and boats and other equipment with a stated value of over $85 million. As of June 30, 2024, the Foundation had cash and other assets with a market value of approximately $52 million. 

Over the last 39 years, the Foundation has undertaken several successful fundraising campaigns and activities including efforts that resulted in the construction of the OCC Planetarium, furnishing of the OCC library, construction of the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, renovation of the Robert B. Moore Theatre, construction of the Harry & Grace Steele Children’s Center, celebration of Orange Coast College’s 75th Anniversary, and the construction of a Nautical Library and the W. Bradley Avery Professional Mariner Training Center at OCC’s Waterfront Campus in Newport Beach.

Last year the Orange Coast College Foundation provided more than $800,000 in scholarship support to new, continuing, and transferring Orange Coast College Students.   Since the foundation’s establishment the foundation has awarded over $12 million in scholarships to deserving Orange Coast College students.   For more information on how you can start a scholarship to benefit students, visit the Scholarship website.