The Louis L. Borick Foundation

The Louis L. Borick Foundation

Louis L. Borick founded Superior Industries International, an automotive wheel supplier, and established his namesake foundation in 1997. The fortune that fuels the grantmaking was built in the automotive supply chain, and control of the foundation passed to Steven J. Borick, Linda Borick Davidson, and Robert Borick after Louis Borick's death in 2011. The family runs the foundation from a Houston office while maintaining a commercial footprint in Van Nuys, California, where Superior Industries was formerly headquartered. The foundation disburses roughly $3.5 million annually to 501(c)(3) organizations in California, Montana, and Texas. Grantmaking spans education, youth and leadership development, the arts, animal welfare, foster care, preservation, and LGBT causes. Unlike foundations that segment target areas into rigid program silos, the Borick Foundation funds opportunistically across these domains as the family board identifies needs. The foundation holds a commercial property at 7800 Woodley Avenue in Van Nuys, subleased from Superior Industries' former headquarters, and a Houston headquarters at 2707 Kipling Street. On the investment side, the foundation maintains commitments to Wazee Street Capital Management, a Denver-based distressed debt and special situations firm, signaling a willingness to allocate endowment assets toward credit-oriented strategies. The foundation operates with no separate investment staff or program officers. Steven J. Borick, the former CEO of Superior Industries, serves as President and Director. His siblings Linda Borick Davidson and Robert Borick sit on the board. The family is also associated with the Nita Borick Management Trust, which co-owns the Van Nuys property. The foundation participates in the LACMA Collectors Committee and owns at least one artwork placed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, tying it to institutional art collecting in Southern California. It holds memberships in the LA Partnership for Early Childhood Investment and Southern California Grantmakers. The foundation's structural distinction is its pure family-board governance. No outside investment committee or philanthropic advisory firm shapes the grant strategy. The combination of a distressed debt allocation within the endowment and a direct-giving model across seven cause areas, managed entirely by the founder's children, makes the Borick Foundation a family office operating in foundation form rather than a professionally staffed institutional grantmaker.