· Private foundation
La84 Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k28 grants · $770k
- $50k–250k28 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE | $259,000 |
| LA'S BEST AFTERSCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM | $250,000 |
| PLAYWORKS | $225,000 |
| LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION | $175,000 |
| BEST STEP FORWARD | $160,000 |
| STUDENTS RUN AMERICA DBA STUDENTS RUN LA | $150,000 |
| UP2US SPORTS | $150,000 |
| ACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS CARSON | $125,000 |
| STREET SOCCER USA INC | $125,000 |
| COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION | $125,000 |
| HEART OF LOS ANGELES (HOLA) YOUTH INC | $100,000 |
| INTER TRIBAL SPORTS | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
105 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $695k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CSCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +62%
- TPTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND3× · 2019–2022 · $2.7M · revenue ×26 · 27% of their budget
- TTTHINK TOGETHER6× · 2018–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +365%
Funded once
LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +78%- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2018 · $100k
- COCITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKSone grant, 2022 · $85k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
It is the mission of srcysc to provide the youth of riverside county with equal opportunities for those of all genders and ages to engage and take active part in personal fitness, teamwork, athletic competition and self esteem building…
Youth sports
Support, educate, organize, administrate and develop southern california youth to achieve their highest potential through the game of soccer.
California Magic SC is a community-based club whose mission is to educate, inspire,and empower youth in a positive way through the beautiful game of soccer.While this small and select club is committed to high achievement in soccer,the…
We enable children and youth in the community, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, healthy, and responsible citizens.
The alliance was established to support the 23 clubs in the los angeles county by securing resources and marketing the boys and girls clubs to support the efforts of each individual club to increase their impact and outreach.
Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.
Boys and girls clubs provide a safe place for youth to develop character, leadership, education, career guidance, health, art, sports and fitness while becoming responsible and caring citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as healthy, caring, and responsible adults.
Boys and girls club of hollywood provides educational programs in diverse subjects that are focused on providing structured learning to the children of our community.
Our mission statement is to promote youth athletics through activities and events that are educational and charitable. the la sports council foundation also supports the mission of the la sports council, which is to drive positive impact…
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After-School All-Stars Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Orange County Makapo Aquatics Project. 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
150 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 150 of the 219 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PLAY EQUITY FUND ↗
- Who funds THINK TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds LA'S BEST ↗
- Who funds LULU'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS RUN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds MORONGO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds STREET SOCCER USA INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE OF SPORT ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON INC ↗
- Who funds MT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOODCRAFT RANGERS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENNIS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds THE GRYD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE SCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE SOCCER ASSOC SOUTH ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UP2US INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR ↗
- Who funds Proyecto Pastoral ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Inter Tribal Sports Inc ↗
- Who funds PF Bresee Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EXPO CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEST STEP FORWARD ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Play Equity Fund · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Annenberg Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation
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 La84 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.
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.