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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
DRIVING FORCE GROUP INC$100,000
ANAHEIM FAMILY YMCA$100,000
STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$34,721
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:

Its 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 its 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
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

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
DC
HI
OK
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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%
+28%

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
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

  • 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 +35%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $641k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • AF
    ALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +6%
  • SS
    SCIENCE SPARKgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $207k · revenue +34%
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
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
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
4
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
5
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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6
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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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
Alliance for Children's Rights

The alliance has improved the lives of more than 178,000 young clients with stability through adoption and legal guardianship, and with access to healthcare, education, and other critical supports, serving over 5,600 children and young…

Unclassified
9
College Match

College match partners with high schools in los angeles county to identify high-achieving, low-income high school students and provide them with the necessary tools and guidance to get into top-ranked colleges with significant financial…

Education
10
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
11
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
12
Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles

Girl scouts' mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. girl scouts of greater los angeles ("gsgla the "council "girl scouts"), the largest girl-serving nonprofit in southern…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is I Have a Dream Foundation - Los Angeles; 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.
04the grantee network

114 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. 114 of the 124 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/114
Grantees still filing
79/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetRon Brown Scholar Fund: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANA: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPS Science: $76,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget2ND CALL: $75,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $65,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOACHING CORPS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA HOGAR MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 26% 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 budgetOUR OWN NON PROFIT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED IN HARMONY: $24,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHAPPY HATS FOR KIDS: $22,500 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetBOSS Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetTEAM GRIFFIN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELEVATE HOPE INC D/B/A RED EYE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% 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 budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGENESIS THE SCHLESINGER ACADEMY FOR INNOVATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSharefest Community Development Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLos Alamitos Youth Center: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAssistance League of San Pedro-South Bay: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPF Bresee Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHav A Sole: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBRUCE LEE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% 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…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

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 La Clippers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from La Clippers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 124 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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