[2] The Annenberg Foundation has focused on educational programming, and its efforts have also included environmental stewardship, social justice, and animal welfare.

The foundation has roots as a traditional grantmaking institution and is also involved in the community.

[4] On January 28, 2013, the Annenberg Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and several other state agencies to explore the possibility of constructing a 46,000 square foot facility in the protected Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve which would have included adoption and veterinary services for domestic pets.

[6] The Los Angeles Times reported that some wetlands advocates had opposed the proposal.

[7] The Los Angeles Daily News noted that this was the Foundation's second failed attempt to construct this project on public land.