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Los Angeles Alpha Tau Omega Foundation at a glance

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Los Angeles Alpha Tau Omega Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$30kYouth Development$30kEnvironment$13kHealth$5kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$4k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Para Los Ninos$4,000
Los Angeles Conservation Corp$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KidWorks: $5k → 10%Mychal's Learning Place: $5k → 14%KidWorks: $5k → 10%Para Los Ninos: $4k → 14%KidWorks: $5k → 10%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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48k · 3 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$48k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEmploymentEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • ALPHA TAU OMEGA FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • KC
    KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
    3× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +86%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS
    2× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • EY
    EcoRise Youth Innovations
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -10%
  • JI
    JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTHgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +28%
  • UM
    UN MAR DE COLORES
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
2
Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative Charter School

The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…

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3
Los Angeles Team Mentoring Inc

Los Angeles Team Mentorings (LATM) mission is to guide middle school students growing up in challenging urban environments to recognize and reach their full potential. See Schedule O for more details.

Youth Development
4
Los Angeles Youth Network

Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…

Human Services
5
Legacy La Youth Development Corp

To make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. legacy la builds the capacity of youth to reach their full potential and equips them with tools to transform their lives and…

Crime & Legal
6
Lake County International Charter School

To educate students in grades k-8 to be literate, knowledgeable, principled, local, national, and global citizens. students participate in an enriched and nurturing learning environment that honors the whole child; intellectually,…

Education
7
Inner-City Arts

Inner-city arts believes that the arts and creativity are transformational, and we envision a society that honors the human capacity for creativity, and values its cultivation in the education of young people. inner-city arts uses arts…

Arts & Culture
8
Youth Policy Institute Inc

Youth policy institute (ypi) transforms los angeles neighborhoods, reducing poverty by offering cradle to college & career services.

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9
Linda Vista Children's Center

We help children discover a way of dealing with life that is realistic, comfortable, and satisfying. Self-confidence is nurtured as children learn to rely on themselves and each other. The noncompetitive environment is one that allows each…

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10
Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise

To prepare students for leadership in the arts and business; where creativity, academic knowledge and financial literacy are essential for success. we are providing an education that integrates the four lenses of learning: academics, arts,…

Education
11
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
12
The California Center for Civic Participation

To educate california youth about the operations of local, state, and federal government.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Para Los Ninos; the most unlike its peers is Just in Time for Foster Youth. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALPHA TAU OMEGA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherALPHA TAU OMEGA FOUNDATION INCLA Conservation Corp: $5,000 · OtherLA Conservation CorpIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15,000 · Human ServicesKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT …MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $5,000 · Human ServicesMYCHALS LEARNING PLACEPARA LOS NINOS: $4,000 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOSJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUST IN TIME …UN MAR DE COLORES: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentUN MAR DE COL…LOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS: $8,000 · EmploymentLOS ANGELE…EcoRise Youth Innovations: $5,000 · Environment826LA: $5,000 · Education
Other$35,000Human Services$24,000Youth Development$10,000Employment$8,000Environment$5,000Education$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALPHA TAU OMEGA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEcoRise Youth Innovations: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget826LA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Los Angeles Alpha Tau Omega Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Los Angeles Alpha Tau Omega 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Los Angeles Alpha Tau Omega Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Los Angeles Alpha Tau Omega Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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