· Private foundation
Ll Foundation for Youth
The foundation was established for multiple public, educational and charitable purposes, including providing ongoing financial support for a variety of established nonprofit, tax-exempt public, charitable and educational organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k15 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $500,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $500,000 |
| FULFILLMENT FUND | $100,000 |
| RAD CAMP INC | $100,000 |
| GOLDEN HEART RANCH | $100,000 |
| LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY | $100,000 |
| THE COLBURN SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| HATHAWAY SYCAMORE CHILD & FAMILY | $100,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION GOLDEN WEST CHAPTER | $100,000 |
| PASADENA PLAYHOUSE | $100,000 |
| THE PAINTED TURTLE | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $85,000 |
| EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CMCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +72%
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles5× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +34%
- TJTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION2× · 2021–2022 · $375k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- MGMS GIFT LL FOUNDATINO FOR YOUTHone grant, 2024 · $500k
- SJST JUDE HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +20%
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +67%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…
To provide comprehensive, family-centered social, educational and behavioral health services that encourage children, adolescents and their families to lead self reliant, stable and productive lives.
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
South central los angeles regional center, (sclarc), believes special needs deserve special attention. we are committed to the provision of culturally sensitive services which enhance the inherent strengths of the family and enable…
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…
Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…
Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…
Cca is committed to preparing young children to be global citizens who are developmentally well-rounded, emotionally literate, and environmentally conscious.
Child lane provides care in an environment where play is valued and children are supported to reach their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lost Angels Childrens Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colburn Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
69 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. 69 of the 84 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Lost Angels Childrens Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Rancho San Antonio Boys Home Inc ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HEART RANCH ↗
- Who funds AUTISM PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALS Network ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE OPERA LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds Optimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children of the Night ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC ASIAN COUNSELING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds New Directions for Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS FAMILY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RAD CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE ↗
- Who funds WATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · Baby2baby · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Green Foundation
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 Ll Foundation for Youth 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.
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.