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Laemmle Theatres Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Laemmle Theatres Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$116k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
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.

Housing & Shelter$264kEnvironment$140kFood & Nutrition$120kHuman Services$112kArts & Culture$110kHealth$105kPublic Benefit$66kCommunity Improvement$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CINEMA FOUNDATION INC$15,000
THE PEOPLE CONCERN$10,000
LA FAMILY HOUSING$10,000
FOOD FORWARD$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LA$10,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF PASADENA$5,000
CICLAVIA$5,000
ASCENCIA$5,000
VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE$5,000
CHRYSALIS$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE LA RIVER (FOLAR)$2,500
BRIDGE TO HOME$2,500
HANDS FOR HOPE$2,500
GLENDALE ARTS$2,500
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 (FY17–24, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STEP UP ON SECOND INC: $3k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND INC: $3k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND INC: $3k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND INC: $3k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND INC: $3k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND INC: $3k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND INC: $3k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $5k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $5k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $5k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $5k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $5k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $3k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND INC: $3k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $3k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $3k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 38 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +131% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
11

Total granted

$1.0M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+131%
+9%

Still filing today

71%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FF
    FOOD FORWARD INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +483%
  • LF
    LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +293%
  • TP
    THE PEOPLE CONCERN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +696%

Funded once

  • SC
    SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +92%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN GROUPS
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -41%
  • WR
    WILL ROGERS RANCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -26%
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
End Homelessness California

To build capacity and community engagement to better serve the most vulnerable population suffering poverty and the homeless crisis.

Human Services
2
Housing Works

Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.

Housing & Shelter
3
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
4
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
5
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
6
La Blueprint
Science & Tech
7
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
8
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
9
The Center in Hollywood

The center provides a place of community to end isolation, build relationships, and introduce housing, health and wellness services to adult individuals experiencing homelessness in hollywood. it contracts with public and non-profit grant…

Human Services
10
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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11
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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12
Council for Watershed Health

Council for watershed health advances the health and sustainability of the region's watersheds, rivers, streams, and habitats - in both natural areas and urban neighborhoods - through science-based research, education, and inclusive…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy; the most unlike its peers is Cinema Foundation Inc. 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

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $80,000 · OtherLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATIONSOVA: $70,000 · OtherSOVACHRYSALIS: $55,000 · OtherCHRYSALISLos Angeles County Bicycle Coalition: $28,000 · OtherLos Angeles County Bicycle CoalitionYOUNG HEALTHY: $20,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE LA RIVER FOLAR: $17,500 · OtherASCENCIA: $42,500 · OtherASCENCIAOPERATION CALIFORNIA INC: $22,500 · Other+23 more: $121,765 · Other+23 moreTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCE…UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $27,500 · Human ServicesUNION STATION HO…HANDS FOR HOPE: $26,000 · Human ServicesHANDS FOR HOPESTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSTEP UP ON SECON…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesTREEPEOPLE INC: $37,500 · EnvironmentTREEPEOPLE I…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $32,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FO…FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER: $20,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF T…HEAL THE BAY: $12,500 · EnvironmentHEAL THE BAYSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB …+2 more: $6,500 · Environment+2 morePROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $40,000 · HealthPROJECT ANG…VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE: $37,500 · HealthVALLEY COMM…Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc: $27,500 · HealthPlanned Par…YOUNG & HEALTHY: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthCINEMA FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureCINEMA FOU…+5 more: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreFOOD FORWARD INC: $80,000 · Food & NutritionCICLAVIA INC: $52,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$457,265Human Services$158,500Environment$116,500Health$112,000Arts & Culture$98,000Food & Nutrition$80,000Recreation & Sports$52,500

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 budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCICLAVIA INC: $52,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetASCENCIA: $42,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC: $37,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE: $37,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles County Bicycle Coalition: $28,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc: $27,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS FOR HOPE: $26,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetOPERATION CALIFORNIA INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE TO HOME SCV: $14,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE FOR VETS: $11,200 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MUSIC GUILD: $8,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH WORLD WATCH: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG & HEALTHY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN GROUPS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILL ROGERS RANCH FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLENDALE ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budget1111 A CREATIVE COLLECTIVE: $2,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIECE BY PIECE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
  • Who funds CICLAVIA INC ↗
  • Who funds ASCENCIA ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
  • Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HANDS FOR HOPE ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER ↗
  • Who funds STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE TO HOME SCV ↗
  • Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE FOR VETS ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSIC GUILD ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH WORLD WATCH ↗
  • Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG & HEALTHY ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN GROUPS ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WILL ROGERS RANCH FOUNDATION ↗

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…California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…Liberty Hill Foundati…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Weingart FoundationJewish Community Foun…Sempra FoundationS Mark Taper Foundati…Cedars-Sinai Medical …
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA33.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Sempra Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 56 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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