California · Private foundation
La84 Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2024
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 72
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $186M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations La84 Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $601k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 59 | $4.8M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $5.1M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 72 | $6.1M | 46% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $3.4M | 63% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $2.9M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $5.0M | 55% |
| FY2018 | 62 | $3.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Science Center Foundation | $3,000,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Play Equity Fund | $2,700,000 | 3 | 27% |
| Think Together | $1,621,288 | 6 | 1% |
| La's Best | $1,450,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Lulu's Place Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 5% |
| The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation | $810,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Students Run America | $775,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Playworks Education Energized | $680,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Morongo Educational Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 98% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles | $405,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 160 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
La84 Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 140 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About La84 Foundation
- How much does La84 Foundation give?
- La84 Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $5,033,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 72 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does La84 Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (47%), Youth Development (22%), Education (10%).
- Who are La84 Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: California Science Center Foundation ($3.0M), The Play Equity Fund ($2.7M), Think Together ($1.6M).
- Does La84 Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does La84 Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as La84 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Play Equity Fund, The Rose Hills Foundation, Weingart Foundation.
- Where is La84 Foundation based?
- La84 Foundation is based in CA.
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