· Private foundation
Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING | $25,607 |
| LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES | $12,990 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD | $12,990 |
| MIDNIGHT MISSION | $12,990 |
| CALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS MAJOR PROJECT INC | $12,990 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF | $12,990 |
| PENNY LANE CENTERS | $12,990 |
| ETTIE LEE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $12,990 |
| JOHN TRACY CLINIC | $12,990 |
| PACIFIC CLINICS | $12,990 |
| ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER | $12,990 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES | $12,990 |
| ST JOHN OF GOD RETIREMENT AND CARE CENT | $12,990 |
| ST ANNES FAMILY SERVICES | $12,990 |
| ST AGATHA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $12,990 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $986k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
THE MIDNIGHT MISSION8× · 2018–2025 · $79k · revenue +21%- PLPenny Lane Centers8× · 2018–2025 · $79k · revenue +10%
- TTTAKING THE REINS8× · 2018–2025 · $79k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESone grant, 2023 · $13k
- YYMCAone grant, 2023 · $13k
- JBJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELESone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…
South central los angeles regional center, (sclarc), believes special needs deserve special attention. we are committed to the provision of culturally sensitive services which enhance the inherent strengths of the family and enable…
The organization is a multi-service, 501c(3) not-for-profit, social services organization serving seniors throughout los angeles and san bernardio counties, with emphasis on low-income and/or underserved individuals. the organization…
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…
Bayfront Youth & Family Services is a quality provider of behavioral and mental health treatment services for children, adolescents, and their caregivers. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive support system that promotes safe and…
Dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Boys Republic provides both residential and non-residential youth services to disadvantaged, at-risk young people throughout California. It operates six facilities, all in Southern California: a 200 acre residential campus, school, and…
The center provides diagnostic evaluations, client coordination and lifelong planning of services for persons with developmental disabilities and their families in accordance with the lanterman developmental disabilities act.
To enrich the lives of seniors, children and their families, throughout our diverse communities. to promote healthy aging and provide social services to vulnerable and impoverished seniors.
To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 69 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds Penny Lane Centers ↗
- Who funds TAKING THE REINS ↗
- Who funds ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services ↗
- Who funds BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds West Valley Boys & Girls Club Inc ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds St Anne's Family Services ↗
- Who funds JOHN TRACY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Hear Center ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS MAJOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CLINICS ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM AGENCIES ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN OF GOD RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Rome and Floyd County Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Lon V Smith Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · Variety - the Childrens Charity of Southern California Tent 25
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.