California · Private foundation
Lafetra Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $713,142
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $64M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Lafetra Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k 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 | 29 | $2.6M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $2.4M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $2.1M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $1.5M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $1.4M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $1.3M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $1.2M | 7% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $945k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation | $1,914,142 | 5 | 15% |
| University of la Verne | $1,155,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Center for Biological Diversity Inc | $1,074,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Polar Bears International | $904,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Los Angeles Conservancy | $824,000 | 8 | 8% |
| For the Fishes | $680,500 | 8 | 94% |
| Chicken & Egg Films Inc | $500,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Community of Writers | $480,000 | 7 | 11% |
| Nest Foundation | $450,000 | 8 | 15% |
| Oceana Inc | $399,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($595k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lafetra Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 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 San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · California Humanities · The California Wellness Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II · Resources Legacy Fund · United States Energy Foundation
How this is measured
About Lafetra Foundation
- How much does Lafetra Foundation give?
- Lafetra Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $2,778,142 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lafetra Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (26%), Arts & Culture (23%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%).
- Who are Lafetra Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation ($1.9M), University of la Verne ($1.2M), Center for Biological Diversity Inc ($1.1M).
- Does Lafetra Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lafetra Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lafetra Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Impactassetsinc.
- Where is Lafetra Foundation based?
- Lafetra Foundation is based in CA.
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