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Lafc Sports Foundation

Support underserved los angeles youth by creating new soccer pitches, increasing access to athletic programs, supporting innovative educational programs in public schools, and providing leadership development and mentorship services.

$549k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$162k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$1.7MYouth Development$481kPhilanthropy$120kFood & Nutrition$100kArts & Culture$60kEducation$54kHealth$45kHuman Services$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $536,954, the rows itemized in this filing. The $549,075 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,121 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $437k
$27,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$812k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US SOCCER FOUNDATION$162,275
THE PLAY EQUITY FUND$100,000
PF BRESEE FOUNDATION$66,134
ZAINO TENNIS COURTS INC$54,925
THINKWATTS FOUNDATION$53,177
CITY YEAR INC$27,500
CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER$25,000
JASON ALBAUGH DBA DUCHENNE BROTHERS FOUNDATION$15,000
LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION$12,943
HAWTHORNE SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
BAKERSFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $25k) 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%OUR OWN NON PROFIT INC: $25k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 8 repeat orgs$461k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$2.1M
$346k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+26%

Still filing today

88%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
Recreation & SportsEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • TP
    THE PLAY EQUITY FUND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +70%
  • PB
    PF Bresee Foundation
    6× · 2018–2024 · $395k · revenue +60%
  • TF
    THINKWATTS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $120k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • SE
    SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES OF LA DBA FOOD ACCESS LOS ANGELESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +110%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $60k
  • EI
    ERNEST & IRMA ROSE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue -84%
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
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
2
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
3
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
4
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
5
Discovery Science Center of Los Angeles

We inspire and educate young minds through engaging science-based programs and exhibits to create a meaningful impact on the communities we serve.

Arts & Culture
6
Los Angeles Education Partnership

To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.

—
7
Great Public Schools Now

The organization invests in schools, organizations and initiatives that catalyze excellence in public education, convenes leaders and uplifts public understanding to advocate for great public schools.

Education
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy
10
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education
11
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
12
California Council On Economic Education

The mission of the california council on economic education is to improve california's economic future by teaching economics and financial literacy, especially in under-served communities. ccee provides a broad range of resources and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is Ernest & Irma Rose Foundation. 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

22 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. 22 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $827,275 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INCTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $42,943 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $17,500 · Recreation & SportsPF Bresee Foundation: $394,819 · OtherPF Bresee FoundationCITY YEAR INC: $78,500 · OtherCITY YEAR INCIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOACHING CORPS: $55,000 · OtherCOACHING CORPSZAINO TENNIS COURTS INC: $54,925 · OtherZAINO TENNIS COURTS INCFRIENDS OF EXPO CENTER: $25,000 · Other+5 more: $55,000 · Other+5 moreTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $500,000 · EducationTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND+3 more: $28,969 · Education+3 moreTHINKWATTS FOUNDATION: $119,691 · Community ImprovementTHINKWATT…SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES OF LA DBA FOOD ACCESS LOS ANGELES: $90,000 · Community ImprovementSUSTAINAB…MAGIC JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyERNEST & IRMA ROSE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Heart Association Inc: $35,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureOUR OWN NON PROFIT INC: $25,000 · Human Services
Recreation & Sports$887,718Other$723,244Education$528,969Community Improvement$219,691Philanthropy$130,000Health$35,000Arts & Culture$25,000Human Services$25,000

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 budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $827,275 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $500,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetPF Bresee Foundation: $394,819 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTHINKWATTS FOUNDATION: $119,691 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetSUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES OF LA DBA FOOD ACCESS LOS ANGELES: $90,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $78,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetERNEST & IRMA ROSE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCOACHING CORPS: $55,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $42,943 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR OWN NON PROFIT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetLA'S BEST: $10,069 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAKERSFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAGIC JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEDUCATIONAL POLICY IMPROVEMENT CENTER: $8,900 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…La Clippers FoundationLa84 FoundationThe Los Angeles Dodge…Pledgeling FoundationThe California Endowm…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Dick's Sporting Goods…Sempra FoundationLos Angeles Rams Foun…Joseph Drown Foundati…
California Community FoundationCA23.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · La Clippers Foundation · La84 Foundation · The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · The California Endowment · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Los Angeles Rams Foundation · Joseph Drown 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 Lafc Sports Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lafc Sports Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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