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La Clippers Foundation

The los angeles clippers foundation exists to foster and support community outreach programs & activities with positive educational, civic, environmental and humanitarian values that benefit and enhance the quality of life primarily for children in (cont.

$5.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Recreation & Sports$19MHealth$6.6MHuman Services$2.6MEducation$2.0MArts & Culture$1.1MYouth Development$502kPhilanthropy$465kPublic Safety & Disaster$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $518k
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.4M
$266,742
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION$1,310,000
MADRID EQUIPMENT RENTAL INC$1,298,389
VISION TO LEARN$975,000
CA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES$525,000
Z BEST HARDWOOD FLOOR$266,742
YMCA-LA$200,000
MORNINGSIDE MONARCHS$117,600
ANAHEIM FAMILY YMCA$100,000
DRIVING FORCE GROUP INC$100,000
STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$34,721
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OUR OWN NON PROFIT: $25k → 14%CASA HOGAR: $50k → 7%ANAHEIM FAMILY YMCA: $100k → 10%UNITED IN HARMONY: $24k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT: $5k → 11%YOUNG HORIZONS: $5k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $400k → 14%YMCA-LA: $200k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $8k → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $8k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $10k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $5k → 14%DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%DREAM STREET FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%ELEVATE HOPE INC: $10k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $8k → 14%ELEVATE HOPE INC: $10k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $200k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $200k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $200k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $200k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $7k → 14%CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1.0M → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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CA
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DC
HI
OK
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$26M · 34 repeat orgs$6.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
83

Total granted

$26M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+27%

Still filing today

88%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • VISION TO LEARN
    5× · 2018–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +250%
  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles
    6× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +5%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $641k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
  • AF
    ALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
  • SS
    SCIENCE SPARKgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $207k · revenue +34%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Los Angeles Team Mentoring Inc

Los Angeles Team Mentorings (LATM) mission is to guide middle school students growing up in challenging urban environments to recognize and reach their full potential. See Schedule O for more details.

Youth Development
2
Legacy La Youth Development Corp

To make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. legacy la builds the capacity of youth to reach their full potential and equips them with tools to transform their lives and…

Crime & Legal
3
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
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.

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5
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
6
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
7
Families in Schools

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

Education
8
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
9
Los Angeles Urban League

The los angeles urban league (laul) is an independent affiliate of the national urban league. the laul was founded in 1921 to help african americans and others in underserved communities achieve their highest true social parity, economic…

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10
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
11
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
12
California Latino Superintendents Association

The california association of latino superintendents and administrators (calsa) is a community of diverse educational leaders skilled in addressing the needs of latino/latina students and dedicated to increasing the number of highly…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is I Have a Dream Foundation - Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Team Griffin Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChild & Family Support Serv…Charter and Independent Sch…Senior Affordable HousingBuddhist Temples and Monast…Early Childhood Care CentersAnimal Rescue and WelfareChristian Evangelical Minis…Performing Arts Organizatio…University Support Organiza…Police and Firefighter Asso…Hospital & Medical Foundati…Youth & Vulnerable Populati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%34%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr10%13%35–55yr12%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%81%10–20yr17%2%20–35yr10%7%35–55yr12%9%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/129
the rest of the field
15%
12,978/86,003

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.

04the grantee network

114 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. 114 of the 124 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/114
Grantees still filing
80/114
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION — $16,365,000 · Recreation & SportsLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION+5 more — $90,000 · Recreation & SportsVISION TO LEARN — $5,650,050 · HealthVISION TO LEARN+8 more — $192,852 · HealthMADRID EQUIPMENT RENTAL INC — $1,298,389 · OtherMADRID EQUIPME…CITY YEAR INC — $640,990 · OtherCITY YEAR INCCALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES — $525,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA DEP…Z BEST HARDWOOD FLOOR — $266,742 · OtherZ BEST HARDWOO…GLOBAL HEALTHCARE PRODUCT SOLUTIONS LLC — $155,000 · OtherLEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO — $215,000 · Other+50 more — $1,031,534 · Other+50 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles — $1,400,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men…ALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesALL FOR K…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANA — $100,000 · Human Services+14 more — $243,776 · Human Services+14 moreTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND — $500,000 · EducationSCIENCE SPARK — $207,480 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR URBAN DEBATE LEAGUES — $164,000 · EducationDa Vinci Schools Fund — $150,000 · EducationRon Brown Scholar Fund — $100,000 · EducationPS Science — $76,000 · Education+18 more — $180,283 · EducationSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $1,000,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $58,700 · Arts & CultureDriving Force Group Inc — $260,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC — $133,141 · PhilanthropyTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $38,907 · Philanthropy+2 more — $17,160 · Philanthropy
Recreation & Sports$16,455,000Health$5,842,902Other$4,132,655Human Services$2,743,776Education$1,377,763Arts & Culture$1,058,700Philanthropy$449,208

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION — $16,365,000 over 7y, 81% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $5,650,050 over 5y, 14% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles — $1,400,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $640,990 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND — $500,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetDriving Force Group Inc — $260,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetLEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO — $215,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetSCIENCE SPARK — $207,480 over 1y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR URBAN DEBATE LEAGUES — $164,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC — $133,141 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $112,482 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANA — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRon Brown Scholar Fund — $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPS Science — $76,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budget2ND CALL — $75,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC — $65,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHING CORPS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCASA HOGAR MINISTRIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $46,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $38,907 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $28,333 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $28,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOUR OWN NON PROFIT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED IN HARMONY — $24,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHAPPY HATS FOR KIDS — $22,500 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetELEVATE HOPE INC D/B/A RED EYE — $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTEAM GRIFFIN FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSS Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetPEOPLE FOR PARKS — $16,526 over 1y, 15% of budgetWELLS BRING HOPE — $15,795 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $15,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGENESIS THE SCHLESINGER ACADEMY FOR INNOVATION — $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSharefest Community Development Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLos Alamitos Youth Center — $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREDLANDS EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - LOS ANGELES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Coalition For At-Risk Youth — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAssistance League of San Pedro-South Bay — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

The Ralph M Parsons F…Elbridge Stuart Found…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Annenberg Foundat…California Community …The Rose Hills Founda…Weingart FoundationThe Crail-Johnson Fou…The Los Angeles Dodge…The Green FoundationS Mark Taper Foundati…Kaiser Foundation Hos…
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA52.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation · The Green Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

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 La Clippers Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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How do I get to La Clippers Foundation?

Find your warmest path to La Clippers 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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