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Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc

The los angeles brotherhood crusade provides economically disadvantaged communities with educational services social services cultural activities vocational opportunities and economic empowerment opportunities.

$558k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$105kPhilanthropy$80kArts & Culture$70kYouth Development$43kEducation$25kCommunity Improvement$20kHealth$16kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $148,490, the rows itemized in this filing. The $557,670 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $409,180 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.
$12,860
Median grant
3
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLACK HOLLYWOOD EDUCATION AND RESOURCE CENTER$40,000
CSUDH PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION$25,000
LEADERS UP$15,000
JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION$13,275
LEGACY LADIES INC$12,860
JEFFREY OSBORNE FOUNDATION$12,000
LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION$10,355
LOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERAL$10,000
MOTHERS IN ACTION$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 (FY20–24, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $13k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $11k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $11k → 17%LEGACY LADIES INC: $13k → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $8k → 14%LEGACY LADIES INC: $8k → 14%LEGACY LADIES INC: $8k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $8k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $6k → 14%CAAP: $10k → 14%MOTHERS IN ACTION: $15k → 14%MOTHERS IN ACTION: $12k → 14%MOTHERS IN ACTION: $10k → 14%MOTHERS IN ACTION: $10k → 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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$274k · 8 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$274k
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+15%

Still filing today

88%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • BH
    BLACK HOLLYWOOD EDUCATION AND RESOURCE CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +26%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $53k · revenue +38%
  • TJ
    THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $36k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • VS
    VARIOU SMALL GRANTS AND
    one grant, 2021 · $49k
  • TC
    THE COUNCIL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PARENTS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +15%
  • AG
    AMAZING GRACE CONSERVATORY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -13%
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
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
2
Black Los Angeles County Client Coalition Inc

Mental health services advocacy

Human Services
3
Life After Uncivil Ruthless Acts

The mission of the organization is to advocate for and serve indigent and low income individuals and families of los angeles county who have been the victims of violence, provide inner city youth with an alternative to gangs and bring more…

Community Improvement
4
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
5
Alliance for Safety and Justice

Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization,…

Crime & Legal
6
California Latinas for Reproductive Justice

California latinas for reproductive justice (clrj) is a statewide organization committed to honoring the experiences of latinas to uphold our dignity, our bodies, sexuality, and families. we build latinas' power and cultivate leadership…

Health
7
Community Build Inc

To change the conditions which lead to los angeles civil unrest through job creation, research and real property development programs.

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8
Fair Housing Foundation

The fair housing foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of discrimination in housing and promoting equal access to housing choices for everyone.

Housing & Shelter
9
Los Angeles Black Worker Center

The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.

Employment
10
Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice

The survivor justice center secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowers them to create their own future.

—
11
East Los Angeles Women's Center

The east los angeles women's center is a leading voice and advocate for survivors and their families affected by sexual, domestic, and intimate partner violence, hiv/aids and the intersection of homelessness. the mission of the east los…

Health
12
Womensmarchla Foundation
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadersup; the most unlike its peers is Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center. 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

18 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. 18 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOTHERS-IN-ACTION INC: $47,000 · Human ServicesMOTHERS-IN-ACTION INCTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $36,003 · Human ServicesTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATIONLEGACY LADIES INC: $28,360 · Human ServicesLEGACY LADIES INCINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $13,533 · Human ServicesINNERCITY STRUGGLETHE COUNCIL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PARENTS: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE COUNCIL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PARENT…Jenesse Center Inc: $8,250 · Human ServicesJenesse Center IncBLACK HOLLYWOOD EDUCATION AND RESOURCE CENTER: $60,000 · EducationBLACK HOLLYWOOD EDUCATION AND R…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $52,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOM…THE K I S FOUNDATION INC: $6,035 · EducationVARIOU SMALL GRANTS AND: $48,802 · OtherVARIOU SMALL GRANTS …AFLCIO Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Building Assoc: $10,000 · OtherAFLCIO Los Angeles C…VISCOUNT FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · OtherVISCOUNT FOUNDATION …STOP THE VIOLENCE & INCREASE THE PEACE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherSTOP THE VIOLENCE & …Jeffrey Osborne Foundation: $12,000 · PhilanthropyST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $5,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $20,333 · Community ImprovementTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $16,035 · Recreation & SportsLEADERSUP: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMAZING GRACE CONSERVATORY INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$143,146Education$118,535Other$75,302Philanthropy$27,500Community Improvement$20,333Recreation & Sports$16,035Youth Development$15,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLACK HOLLYWOOD EDUCATION AND RESOURCE CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMOTHERS-IN-ACTION INC: $47,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $36,003 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLEGACY LADIES INC: $28,360 over 3y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $20,333 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $16,035 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSUP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $13,533 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJeffrey Osborne Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetTHE COUNCIL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PARENTS: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetAMAZING GRACE CONSERVATORY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFLCIO Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Building Assoc: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetJenesse Center Inc: $8,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTOP THE VIOLENCE & INCREASE THE PEACE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE K I S FOUNDATION INC: $6,035 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $5,500 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.

California Community …Weingart FoundationThe California Endowm…The Ralph M Parsons F…Sempra FoundationSeiu Local 2015The Rose Hills Founda…Liberty Hill Foundati…The Annenberg Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
California Community FoundationCA24.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Endowment · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Seiu Local 2015 · The Rose Hills Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc. 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc 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 20 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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