How much did Los Angeles Chargers Charities grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of Los Angeles Chargers Charities’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

cancerunified districtsanpatientresearch

2020

propertyfinancingrealunion districtchildrenregardlessstatus

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k5 grants · $64k
$50k–250k4 grants · $308k

$21,515

Median grant

States reached

$3.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
American Cancer Society$10,000
Paws for Life K9 Rescue$10,000
White Memorial Charitable Fndn$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.7M · 9 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+77%

Still filing today

78%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

TP
The Play Equity Fund
5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +2538%
LB
LA Brotherhood Crusade Black United
4× · 2021–2024 · $224k · revenue +45%
CH
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
2× · 2019–2020 · $96k · revenue +12%

Funded once

B
Baby2Babygraduated
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +463%
VU
Vista USD Vista HS
one grant, 2023 · $70k
VH
Valhalla High School
one grant, 2021 · $70k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Communities in Schools of Los Angeles

Through a school-based coordinator, we strategically align and deliver needed resources empowering students to stay in school and achieve in life

Youth Development

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Provide high quality medical care to children; teach & conduct research to prevent disease.

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California School Boards Association

Promoting k-12 public education success through aggressive advocacy and effective school board governance.

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Pazlo Education Foundation

Operation of a public charter school serving at-risk youth in los angeles, california.

Education

Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation

Provide essential equipment, training and public outreach programs for the los angeles fire department to supplement city resources

Public Safety & Disaster

Partnership for Los Angeles Schools

Transform schools to revolutionize school systems to empower all students with a high-quality education.

Education

Los Angeles County Bar Association

Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.

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Los Angeles College Prep Academy

Public charter school offering college preparatory education to students in northeast l.a.

Education

Los Angeles Unified School District

Maximize resources and support for the district's core educational priorities to support students.

Education

Collegiate Charter High School of Los

Collegiate charter high school is a public college preparatory high school in los angeles, ca.

Education

California Forward

California forward (ca fwd) brings people together across regions to improve government and create resilient growth statewide.

Public Benefit

League of California

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…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital Los Angeles. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/47

the rest of the field

13%

8,467/64,530

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.

05the grantee network

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/29

Grantees still filing

23/29

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,541,954Education$686,500Philanthropy$326,627Health$160,150Human Services$95,745Recreation & Sports$55,000Civil Rights$30,000

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.

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.

California Community FoundationCA19.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Sempra Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Project Lead the Way Inc · The Ahmanson Foundation · Community Partners · The James Irvine Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The California Endowment · The San Diego 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 organisation 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Team Heal Foundation Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 330954775 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Team Heal Foundation Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Los Angeles Chargers Charities?

Find your warmest path to Los Angeles Chargers Charities through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Los Angeles Chargers Charities

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Los Angeles Chargers Charities?

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Los Angeles Chargers Charities

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Los Angeles Chargers Charities?

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