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Alliance for a Better Community

Advancing social, economic, racial equity and justice for the latino / a community and the los angeles region through power building and policy advocacy.

$692k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$667kPublic Safety & Disaster$175kCommunity Improvement$160kCivil Rights$115kHuman Services$55kPublic Benefit$38kPhilanthropy$30kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $482,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $692,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $209,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS (CHIRLA)$175,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$50,000
PROYECTO PASTORAL$50,000
CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER$40,000
PARENT ENGAGEMENT ACADEMY (PEA)$20,000
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$20,000
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER$15,000
CITY YEAR$10,000
INNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$10,000
INNERCITY STRUGGLE$10,000
YOUTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$10,000
COMMUNIDADES INDIGENAS EN LIDERAZGO (CIELO)$10,000
COUNCIL OF MEXICAN FEDERATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA (COFEM)$10,000
CARECEN$10,000
SEARCH TO INVOLVE PILIPINO AMERICANS (SIPA)$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $328k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 14%CONSEJO DE FEDERACIONES MEXIC: $25k → 14%COUNCIL OF MEXICAN FEDERATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA (COFEM): $15k → 14%COUNCIL OF MEXICAN FEDERATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA (COFEM): $10k → 14%ASIAN YOUTH CENTER (AYC): $10k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $75k → 14%PROMESA BOYLE HEIGHTS AT PROYECTO PASTORAL: $60k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $50k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $38k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $10k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $10k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $5k → 14%CARECEN: $10k → 14%CARECEN: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$849k · 9 repeat orgs$405k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$849k
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    3× · 2022–2025 · $208k · revenue +78%
  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $120k · revenue +8%
  • CT
    CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER
    2× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +261%

Funded once

  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +35%
  • U
    UNIDOSUS
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -10%
  • The Education Trust Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +16%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
California Competes

Established in 2011, our mission is to help transform the state's higher education system into an engine of economic opportunity that empowers all californians, particularly those from underserved communities, to achieve their full…

Education
2
Los Angeles Education Partnership

To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.

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3
Families in Schools

To ensure student success by building authentic partnerships between families, educators, and system leaders, and through parent-led advocacy.

Education
4
Centro Legal De La Raza

Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
5
California Association for Bilingual Education

Promote and support educational excellence and equity.

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6
The Language Academy of Sacramento

The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…

Education
7
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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8
Water Education for Latino Leaders

Well educates and trains local latino elected officials about california water policy to promote timely and equitable actions that serve to develop a robust economy, healthy communities, and a resilient environment for all californians.

Human Services
9
Alliance for a Better Community

Advancing social, economic, racial equity and justice for the latino / a community and the los angeles region through power building and policy advocacy.

Community Improvement
10
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
11
Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education
12
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners; the most unlike its peers is Southeast Community Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
10/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $120,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYCALIFORNIANS TOGETHER: $100,000 · EducationCALIFORNIANS TOGETHERPARENT ENGAGEMENT ACADEMY: $65,000 · EducationPARENT ENGAGEMENT ACADEMYThe Education Trust Inc: $30,000 · EducationThe Education Trust Inc+2 more: $20,000 · Education+2 moreProyecto Pastoral: $222,500 · Human ServicesProyecto PastoralCONSEJO DE FEDERACIONES MEXICANAS EN NORTE AMERICA: $50,000 · Human ServicesCONSEJO DE FEDERACIONES MEXI…INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $25,000 · Human ServicesINNERCITY STRUGGLECentral American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California: $15,000 · Human Services+2 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $207,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERSCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER: $15,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DEVELOPME…COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $175,000 · Civil RightsCOALITION FOR HUMA…SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: $25,000 · Civil RightsSCHOOLS AND COMMUN…+1 more: $5,000 · Civil RightsUNIDOSUS: $30,000 · OtherUNIDOSUSCITY YEAR INC: $20,000 · OtherCITY YEAR I…EAST YARD: $15,000 · OtherEAST YARDSEARCH TO INVOLVE PILIPINO AMERICANS: $10,000 · OtherSEARCH TO I…Youth Leadership Institute: $10,000 · OtherYouth Leade…NEW VENTURE FUND: $30,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE…COMUNIDADES INDIGENAS EN LIDERAZGO CORP: $10,000 · OtherCOMUNIDADES…INNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $39,000 · PhilanthropyASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $30,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$335,000Human Services$327,500Community Improvement$222,500Civil Rights$205,000Other$125,000Philanthropy$39,000Crime & Legal$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetProyecto Pastoral: $222,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $207,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $175,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT ENGAGEMENT ACADEMY: $65,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCONSEJO DE FEDERACIONES MEXICANAS EN NORTE AMERICA: $50,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $39,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: $25,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEARCH TO INVOLVE PILIPINO AMERICANS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Leadership Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

California Community …Weingart FoundationThe California Endowm…Community PartnersThe Sobrato Family Fo…The Ralph M Parsons F…The James Irvine Foun…The California Wellne…Silicon Valley Commun…Great Public Schools …Latino Community Foun…Elbridge Stuart Found…
California Community FoundationCA31.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Endowment · Community Partners · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · Latino Community Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alliance for a Better Community funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alliance for a Better Community. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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