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Los Angeles Chargers Charities
The Chargers Impact Fund is committed to helping families thrive in and around Southern California.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $371,749 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $871,635 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $499,886 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Play Equity Fund | $100,000 |
| San Diego Unified School District | $89,400 |
| LA Brotherhood Crusade Black United | $65,799 |
| Blessing in a Backpack | $52,535 |
| Housh Enterprises | $21,515 |
| Long Beach Polytechnic High School | $12,500 |
| Paws for Life K9 Rescue | $10,000 |
| White Memorial Charitable Fndn | $10,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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
- TPTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +70%
- LALOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC4× · 2021–2024 · $224k · revenue +93%
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles2× · 2019–2020 · $96k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- BBABY2BABYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +100%
- VHVALHALLA HIGH SCHOOL PTOone grant, 2021 · $70k
- SUSweetwater Union High School District Financing Corporationone grant, 2020 · $70k
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.
The mission of lapf is to create partnerships to provide resources and programs that help the police perform at their highest level and to enhance lapd-community relations.(see schedule o)
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).
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.
Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.
To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Sweetwater Union High School District Financing Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 48 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 THE PLAY EQUITY FUND ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds Team Heal Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Empower Charter School ↗
- Who funds St Francis Center ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GRATITUDE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds 911 DAY ↗
- Who funds LA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES ↗
- Who funds DONNIE EDWARDS BEST DEFENSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE ↗
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 · Sempra Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The California Endowment · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Project Lead the Way Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Share Our Strength · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Los Angeles Chargers Charities 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.
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