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Lamp Inc

Lamp community's mission is to end homelessness of los angeles' most vulnerable individuals -primarily adults living with mental illness - through a continuum of services and housing, enabling them to reach their highest level of self-sufficiency and community integration.

$13M
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$575k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
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01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2019.

Housing & Shelter$2.3MHealth$659kHuman Services$352kEmployment$309kReligion$71kCommunity Improvement$41k
02FY2019 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $575,057 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,488,030 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,912,973 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$575,057
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PEOPLE CONCERN$575,057
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $444k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $575k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTHCARE LOS ANGELES: $363k → 14%PATH: $228k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $41k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES: $294k → 14%THE CENTER AT BLESSED SACRAMENT: $625k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Jwch Institute Inc

The specific purposes of this organization are:(a) to provide outpatient primary health service in underserved areas and/or for medically underserved populations as a community clinic. (b) to develop, promote, and manage health care…

Health
2
The Children's Clinic 'Serving Children and Their Families'

TCC Family Health mission is to provide innovative, integrated, quality health care that will contribute to a healthy community, focusing on those in need and working with patients and the community as partners in their overall well-being.

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3
Union Station Homeless Services

We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.

Human Services
4
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
5
Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Our Vision is to enhance the educational and economic well-being of the people we serve by means of direct human services, advocacy, and referrals.Our Mission is to save lives, unite families, and protect the community through addiction…

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6
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
7
Ascencia

To lift people of out homelessness, one person, one family at a time.

Housing & Shelter
8
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
9
Chicago House & Social Service Agency

Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids

Health
10
The Midnight Mission

The midnight mission seeks to offer a bridge to self sufficiency for people experiencing homelessness through interim shelter, advocacy, education, training and job placement, make available the necessities of life, offer the 12-step…

Human Services
11
Healthright 360

To give hope and change lives. we do this by offering a continuum of prevention, intervention, behavioral health and wellness services to adults and families throughout california. these services aim to reduce costs of societal problems by…

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12
Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness

Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Los Angeles Free Clinic and the most unlike its peers is Proyecto Pastoral. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD — $624,582 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER IN HOLLYWOODTHE PEOPLE CONCERN — $575,057 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERNDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $443,916 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTERHomeless Health Care Los Angeles — $363,297 · Human ServicesHomeless Health Care Los AngelesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — $294,187 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INCPATH — $228,370 · Human ServicesPATH+1 more — $40,630 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER — $470,149 · OtherLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTERCHRYSALIS CENTER — $308,515 · OtherCHRYSALIS CENTERBROKEN HEARTS MINISTRY — $70,833 · OtherBROKEN HEARTS MINISTRYEXODUS RECOVERY INC — $57,750 · OtherEXODUS RECOVERY INCVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $102,522 · HealthLOS ANGELES CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTERS — $57,818 · HealthTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC — $28,682 · HealthWEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION — $101,216 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$2,570,039Other$907,247Health$189,022Housing & Shelter$101,216

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD — $624,582 over 1y, 32% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER — $470,149 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $443,916 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHomeless Health Care Los Angeles — $363,297 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCHRYSALIS CENTER — $308,515 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — $294,187 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPATH — $228,370 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $102,522 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION — $101,216 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTERS — $57,818 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetProyecto Pastoral — $40,630 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC — $28,682 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way IncThe Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…California Community …The People ConcernShelter Partnership I…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
United Way IncCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Community Foundation · The People Concern · Shelter Partnership Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Lamp Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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