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Kings Care Foundation

Support los angeles families by supporting charitable organizations and programs with shared goals of wellness, sustainability, social advocacy, and inclusion

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$415k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$2.2MHuman Services$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.3MScience & Tech$1.0MArts & Culture$532kPhilanthropy$373kPublic Safety & Disaster$321kCrime & Legal$215kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $1,032,610, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,120,936 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $88,326 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

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
  • $250k+2 grants · $665k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$555k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LA$415,000
DISCOVERY CUBE LA$250,000
THE PLAY EQUITY FUND$100,000
YMCA$100,000
THRUGUIDANCE MINISTRIES INC$50,000
PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED$50,000
GRADES OF GREEN INC$27,410
KOREA TOWN SENIOR & COMMUNITY$15,200
DON'T EVER GIVE UP$15,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DISABLED SLED HOCKEY$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $973k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%Mamba and Mambacita Sports Foundation: $61k → 10%GOALIE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%YMCA: $200k → 14%YMCA: $100k → 14%KOREA TOWN SENIOR & COMMUNITY: $15k → 14%SouthBay Sports Health & Rec: $30k → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $200k → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $200k → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $121k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
TX
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 28 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
60

Total granted

$7.1M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+3%

Still filing today

82%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    6× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +78%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    5× · 2017–2024 · $811k · revenue +17%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $521k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • KI
    KABOOM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $259k · revenue -22%
  • YB
    YMCA Ball Hockey Program
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • VC
    VARIOUS CHARITIES 5000 OR UNDER
    one grant, 2018 · $155k
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
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
Los Angeles Police Foundation

The mission of lapf is to create partnerships to provide resources and programs that help the police perform at their highest level and to enhance lapd-community relations.(see schedule o)

Human Services
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
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.

—
5
Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission

Lasec works to attract, secure and support high-profile sports and entertainment events in los angeles. major events leave a lasting, positive impact on the host city and generate hundreds of millions of dollars in economic impact and…

Recreation & Sports
6
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
7
The Heal Los Angeles Foundation

To improve the lives of young people in greater los angeles by creating impactful programs that will help them pursue their dreams while building fundamental life skills.

Education
8
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
9
Los Angeles Sports Council

To drive positive impact in the greater los angeles area through the transformational powers of the sports industry.

—
10
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
11
League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy
12
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is The 5 Gyres Institute. 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

74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 91 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
47/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $810,741 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALI…DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER: $505,000 · OtherDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTERRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $261,667 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESYMCA Ball Hockey Program: $200,000 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITIES 5000 OR UNDER: $154,618 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS LA CHAPTER: $147,000 · OtherSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $215,000 · OtherSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATIONTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $149,460 · OtherREDONDO BEACH POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION: $132,065 · Other+49 more: $1,367,778 · Other+49 moreChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,972,440 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los A…+8 more: $120,369 · Health+8 moreDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $507,500 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY SCIE…DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $505,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY SCIE…Thru Guidance Ministries Inc: $122,790 · Arts & CultureThru Guidance …+2 more: $24,500 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $520,751 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S …Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $300,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's …MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $61,043 · Human ServicesMAMBA & MAMB…+5 more: $90,790 · Human Services+5 moreTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $350,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $25,500 · EducationECHOES OF HOPE: $19,690 · Education+2 more: $23,845 · EducationKABOOM INC: $258,706 · Recreation & SportsTHE EMPOWERMENT EFFECT: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsSNOOP YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SOLA FOUNDATION: $25,500 · Youth Development
Other$3,943,329Health$2,092,809Arts & Culture$1,159,790Human Services$972,584Education$419,035Recreation & Sports$286,206Youth Development$275,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,972,440 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $810,741 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $520,751 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $507,500 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $505,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $350,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKABOOM INC: $258,706 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $200,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $149,460 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREDONDO BEACH POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION: $132,065 over 5y, 32% of budgetThru Guidance Ministries Inc: $122,790 over 2y, 20% of budgetGRADES OF GREEN INC: $92,410 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetWags and Walks: $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $61,043 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT OPPORTUNITY: $55,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $50,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYOU CAN PLAY: $38,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES SPORTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $31,440 over 1y, 32% of budgetSOUTH BAY SPORTS HEALTH & RECREATION: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION: $27,024 over 3y, 0.4% of budget4 PAWS 4 PATRIOTS: $26,040 over 1y, 40% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $25,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOLA FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $24,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetECHOES OF HOPE: $19,690 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES LAKERS YOUTH FOUNDATION: $18,250 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT EFFECT: $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEAMSMILE INC: $14,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $13,845 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMedal Of Honor Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSNOOP YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHERITAGE WORKS: $12,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION FOR CANCER SURVIVORSHIP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $8,494 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $7,805 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…Great Public Schools …The Rose Hills Founda…The Annenberg Foundat…Johnny Carson Foundat…Sempra FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…United Way IncPasadena Community Fo…Weingart Foundation
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA28.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · United Way Inc · Pasadena Community Foundation · Weingart 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 Kings Care Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kings Care Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Kings Care Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kings Care Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 91 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$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