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Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation
GREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION (gla) is the premier philanthropic partner of the los angeles county office of education (lacoe). Gla is dedicated to providing resources to lacoe as it serves students, supports communities, and leads educators. Gla works with school districts and other partners to ensure educational excellence…
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 79%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $385,850
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 79% of the organizations Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $497k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $1.7M | 88% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $904k | 79% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $856k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $188k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $1.9M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $34k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $144k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $69k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles County Office of Education | $3,102,277 | 8 | n/a |
| North Valley Caring Services | $325,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Long Beach | $325,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Antelope Valley Boys and Girls Club | $325,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Long Beach Unified School District | $225,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Information and Referral Federation of Los Angeles County | $195,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles | $195,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Southern California Grantmakers | $180,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles | $125,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Victor Valley Union High School District | $87,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles County Office of Education | $3,102,277 | 8 | n/a |
| North Valley Caring Services | $325,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Long Beach | $325,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Antelope Valley Boys and Girls Club | $325,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Long Beach Unified School District | $225,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Information and Referral Federation of Los Angeles County | $195,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles | $195,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Southern California Grantmakers | $180,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles | $125,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Victor Valley Union High School District | $87,000 | 2 | n/a |
| After-School All-Stars Los Angeles | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise | $60,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Glendale Unified School District | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vaughn Next Century Learning Center | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Montebello Unified School | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Social Justice Learning Institute | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| We Grow La | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Inglewood Unified School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Partners | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Plus Me Project | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pasadena Rosebud Academy Charter School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Project Passion | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pass It Forward Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Volunteer Collective | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Altadena Music Theatre | $10,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pacific Opera Project | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Day One | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bassett Unified School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Im a Movement Not a Monument | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montebello Unified School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kizuna Little Tokyo Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| College Access Plan | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Urban Scholar Academy | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Altadena Library Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Our Own Non Profit Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Environmental Charter Schools | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pacific Coast University School of Law | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Compton Unified School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Heads Up Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Baldwin Park Usd | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sola Robotics | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Los Angeles Unified School District | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| La Mesa Dale Elementary School | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation
- How much does Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation give?
- Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation reported 33 itemized grants totaling $1,654,350, out of $2,679,487 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (66%), Human Services (18%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Los Angeles County Office of Education ($3.1M), North Valley Caring Services ($325k), Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Long Beach ($325k).
- Does Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 79% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, The Annenberg Foundation.
- Where is Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation based?
- Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation is based in CA.
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