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La Promise Fund

To provide students with academic and enrichment opportunities that spark passion, empower leadership, and prepare them for their chosen college and career paths.

$609k
Granted FY2022
1
Itemized grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$465k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$464,684
Largest grant, FY2022
$464,684
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2019 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$46M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations La Promise Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22
EducationEmploymentYouth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$465k0%
FY20206$749k67%
FY20192$100kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Education$1.1MEmployment$110kHealth$72kCommunity Improvement$61kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Los Angeles Unified School District$612,7102n/a
La Promise Fund$494,68433%
Unite-La Inc$110,00012%
Coalition for Responsible Community Development$60,50020%
Synergy Academies$20,50020%
Slate Z$15,0001n/a

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.

Weingart FoundationCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Weingart Foundation · Community Partners · The California Wellness Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.

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About La Promise Fund

How much does La Promise Fund give?
La Promise Fund reported 1 itemized grants totaling $464,684, out of $609,484 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
What does La Promise Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (80%), Employment (8%), Health (6%).
Who are La Promise Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2022: Los Angeles Unified School District ($613k), La Promise Fund ($495k), Unite-La Inc ($110k).
Does La Promise Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as La Promise Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Weingart Foundation, Community Partners, The California Wellness Foundation.
Where is La Promise Fund based?
La Promise Fund is based in CA.

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 6 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $817k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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