Skip to content
Alvarado Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Alvarado Charitable Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Education$163kYouth Development$93kArts & Culture$45kCrime & Legal$13kHealth$6kAnimals$5k
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$357
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES$30,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PUBLIC LAW CENTER: $8k → 10%GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $6k → 12%CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $15k → 14%CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $10k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $30k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $30k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $10k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $10k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $5k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $4k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $2k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY - LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY - LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL: $250 → 14%LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $30k → 14%LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $30k → 14%LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $30k → 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
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
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
2
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
3
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
4
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
8
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Deeply rooted in our local beverly hills community and influenced by cultural change, the wallis annenberg center for the performing arts, a public-private partnership with the city of beverly hills, strives to be a site for the…

Arts & Culture
9
The Adler Planetarium

The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…

Arts & Culture
10
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
11
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
12
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $90,000 · EducationTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELESUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $63,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIACHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITYBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $92,700 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELE…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CALIFO…CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER THEATRE …PUBLIC LAW CENTER: $8,490 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $5,900 · HealthLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY - LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL: $5,250 · OtherGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Animals
Education$163,000Youth Development$92,700Arts & Culture$45,000Crime & Legal$8,490Health$5,900Other$5,250Animals$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $92,700 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $63,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC LAW CENTER: $8,490 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $5,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alvarado Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alvarado Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 10 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Alvarado’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home