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La84 Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$16MYouth Development$7.6MEducation$3.4MScience & Tech$3.0MHuman Services$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.1MCommunity Improvement$470kHealth$259kOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k28 grants · $770k
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$186M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STREET SOCCER USA INC: $125k → 17%EXPOSURE SKATE: $10k → 10%BEST STEP FORWARD: $160k → 21%STREET SOCCER USA INC: $100k → 17%STREET SOCCER USA INC: $75k → 17%STREET SOCCER USA INC: $38k → 17%PARTNERS THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $20k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $125k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $49k → 11%OCEANSIDE IVEY RANCH PARK ASSOCIATION: $25k → 11%MONTEBELLO POLICE ATHLETICS & ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $10k → 14%ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE: $50k → 14%ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE: $35k → 14%ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE: $30k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $30k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $75k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $75k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $45k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $40k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $25k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $10k → 14%SPECIAL NEEDS NETWORK INC: $30k → 14%WHY CAN'T WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE: $34k → 14%TOBERMAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 14%EL CENTRO DEL PUEBLO: $30k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL AKA JESUIT HISPANO MINISTRY: $55k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $50k → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH: $75k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $40k → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH: $75k → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH: $75k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $35k → 14%ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH: $25k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $35k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $20k → 14%ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $20k → 14%WEINGART EAST LOS ANGELES YMCA: $25k → 14%JUST US 4 YOUTH: $10k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $275k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $75k → 14%BEAT THE STREETS-LOS ANGELES INC: $50k → 14%BEAT THE STREETS-LOS ANGELES INC: $50k → 14%BEAT THE STREETS-LOS ANGELES INC: $50k → 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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27M · 105 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105
97

Total granted

$27M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+30%

Still filing today

73%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $695k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +62%
  • TP
    THE PLAY EQUITY FUND
    3× · 2019–2022 · $2.7M · revenue ×26 · 27% of their budget
  • TT
    THINK TOGETHER
    6× · 2018–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +365%

Funded once

  • LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +78%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • CO
    CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS
    one grant, 2022 · $85k
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
Southwest Riverside County Youth Sports Coalition Corp

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…

Recreation & Sports
2
So Cal Aces Baseball Club

Youth sports

Religion
3
Los Angeles Bulls Soccer Club

Support, educate, organize, administrate and develop southern california youth to achieve their highest potential through the game of soccer.

Recreation & Sports
4
California Magic Sc

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…

Recreation & Sports
5
Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena

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.

Youth Development
6
The Los Angeles County Alliance for Boys and Girls Clubs

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.

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7
Santa Barbara Soccer Club

Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.

Recreation & Sports
8
Boys & Girls Club of San Fernando Valley

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.

—
9
Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as healthy, caring, and responsible adults.

Youth Development
10
Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood Inc

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.

Youth Development
11
Los Angeles Sports Council Foundation

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…

Unclassified
12
Boys & Girls Club of La Plata County Inc

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After-School All-Stars Los Angeles; 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.
04the grantee network

150 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. 150 of the 219 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
140/150
Grantees still filing
111/150
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAUSDBEYOND THE BELL BRANCH: $1,129,317 · OtherLAUSDBEYOND THE BELL BRANCHIndividual grant recipient: $1,055,416 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOUNTY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION: $1,018,646 · OtherCOUNTY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT…+95 more: $5,705,105 · Other+95 moreTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $2,700,000 · EducationTHE PLAY EQUITY FUNDTHINK TOGETHER: $1,621,288 · EducationTHINK TOGETHERLA'S BEST: $1,450,000 · EducationLA'S BESTMORONGO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · EducationMORONGO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDA…MT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Education+12 more: $722,257 · Education+12 moreSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $775,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTUDENTS RUN AMERI…PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $680,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATIO…HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $385,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGEL…SCIENCE OF SPORT: $330,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCIENCE OF SPORTBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON INC: $312,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB …THE GRYD FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY: $220,000 · Youth DevelopmentCALIFORNIA STATE SOCCER ASSOC SOUTH: $215,826 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $182,700 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $180,000 · Youth Development+26 more: $1,361,250 · Youth Development+26 moreLULU'S PLACE INC: $1,000,000 · Recreation & SportsLULU'S PLACE …THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $810,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE LOS ANGEL…THE SCGA FOUNDATION: $218,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE SCGA FOUN…LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION: $215,000 · Recreation & SportsLOS ANGELES P…UP2US INC: $205,000 · Recreation & SportsUP2US INCInter Tribal Sports Inc: $175,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsAMERICA SCORES LA: $137,500 · Recreation & SportsSLOANE STEPHENS FOUNDATION INC: $129,000 · Recreation & Sports+14 more: $591,125 · Recreation & Sports+14 moreCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,000,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA …Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $405,000 · Human ServicesSTREET SOCCER USA INC: $337,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $270,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH: $250,000 · Human ServicesProyecto Pastoral: $180,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $174,000 · Human ServicesBEST STEP FORWARD: $160,000 · Human ServicesBEAT THE STREETS - LOS ANGELES INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesAngel City Alliance: $115,000 · Human Services+11 more: $328,675 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENNIS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $269,200 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $259,000 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNTY MAKAPO AQUATICS PROJECT: $59,000 · PhilanthropyAWOKE: $30,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Other$8,908,484Education$7,293,545Youth Development$4,892,276Recreation & Sports$3,630,625Arts & Culture$3,000,000Human Services$2,370,175Philanthropy$642,200

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,000,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $2,700,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetTHINK TOGETHER: $1,621,288 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLA'S BEST: $1,450,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetLULU'S PLACE INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $810,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $775,000 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $680,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMORONGO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $405,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $385,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSTREET SOCCER USA INC: $337,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetSCIENCE OF SPORT: $330,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON INC: $312,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetMT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER: $290,520 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWOODCRAFT RANGERS: $275,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $270,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENNIS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $269,200 over 3y, 20% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $259,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRYD FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH: $250,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY: $220,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetTHE SCGA FOUNDATION: $218,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE SOCCER ASSOC SOUTH: $215,826 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetUP2US INC: $205,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $200,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $182,700 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetProyecto Pastoral: $180,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $180,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetInter Tribal Sports Inc: $175,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetPF Bresee Foundation: $175,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $174,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley: $170,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF EXPO CENTER: $161,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetBEST STEP FORWARD: $160,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetLA PROMISE FUND: $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBEAT THE STREETS - LOS ANGELES INC: $150,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WHITTIER INC: $140,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICA SCORES LA: $137,500 over 3y, 33% of budgetACEING AUTISM INC: $136,400 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $136,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $132,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH N MOTION ACADEMY INCORPORATED: $129,500 over 5y, 48% of budgetSLOANE STEPHENS FOUNDATION INC: $129,000 over 3y, 12% 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 Play Equity FundThe Rose Hills Founda…Weingart FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…The Ahmanson Foundati…California Community …The Green FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…The Annenberg Foundat…Elbridge Stuart Found…Great Public Schools …The Los Angeles Dodge…
The Play Equity FundCA62.3× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 La84 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from La84 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    64report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 219 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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