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Los Angeles Chargers Charities

The chargers impact fund is committed to bringing people together to empower youth, generate access, and create opportunities in under-resourced neighborhoods so todays dreams can become tomorrows reality.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.4MRecreation & Sports$530kPhilanthropy$327kHealth$221kHuman Services$136kFood & Nutrition$53kReligion$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $1,017,195, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,132,334 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,115,139 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $252k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $245k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$28,735
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LULUS PLACE$500,000
LA BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE BLACK UNITED$85,135
SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$60,000
JOHN MUIR HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL$50,000
PALISADES CHARTER HS FOOTBALL$50,000
SOUTH BAY UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT$40,000
LA FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$40,000
SAN DIEGO USD LONGFELLOW ELEM$31,865
CALIFORNIA SPORTS GROUP INC$30,995
SWEETWATER UNION HIGH SCHOOL DIST$28,735
LAUSD KING DREW MAGNET SCH$25,000
LA MESA SPRING VALLEY SCH DIST$20,000
INGLEWOOD JR ALL AMERICAN FOOTBALL$15,465
ORANGE COUNTY FOOTBALL ACADEMY$10,000
ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION$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 (FY21–25, $101k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%American Red Cross: $19k → 14%WOUNDED WARIOR PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%Blessing in a Backpack: $53k → 15%Best Defense Foundation: $10k → 11%The Midnight Mission: $15k → 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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 10 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
37

Total granted

$1.9M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+11%

Still filing today

70%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $825k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TP
    THE PLAY EQUITY FUND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +70%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $309k · revenue +93%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    2× · 2019–2020 · $96k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • B
    BABY2BABYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +100%
  • VH
    VALHALLA HIGH SCHOOL PTO
    one grant, 2021 · $70k
  • GU
    GROSSMONT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · $70k
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
Los Angeles Police Foundation

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)

Human Services
2
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
3
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
4
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

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…

Youth Development
5
University of Southern California

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…

Education
6
Los Angeles Education Partnership

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.

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7
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
8
League of California Community Foundations

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
9
Cif Los Angeles City Section

The cif los angeles city section is committed to providing quality support services in a respectful and gracious manner. we aim to enhance member schools' abilities to manage safe and fair interscholastic athletic programs. increase…

Recreation & Sports
10
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

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.

Employment
11
Los Angeles Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association
Crime & Legal
12
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc. 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

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
22/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $672,265 · OtherSAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTGROSSMONT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $175,000 · OtherGROSSMONT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTBABY2BABY: $100,000 · OtherBABY2BABYVALHALLA HIGH SCHOOL PTO: $70,000 · OtherGROSSMONT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $70,000 · OtherVista USD Vista HS: $70,000 · OtherCentral Union High School: $65,000 · Other+28 more: $602,039 · Other+28 moreTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $500,000 · EducationTHE PLAY EQUITY FUNDSweetwater Union High School District Financing Corporation: $70,000 · EducationSweetwater Union High…PALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationPALISADES CHARTER HIG…FIRST BOOK: $48,000 · EducationFIRST BOOKKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $40,000 · EducationKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCH…Empower Charter School: $28,500 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationLULU'S PLACE INC: $500,000 · Recreation & SportsLULU'S PLACE INCTeam Heal Foundation Inc: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsTeam Heal Foundat…CALIFORNIA SPORTS GROUP INC: $30,995 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $308,662 · PhilanthropyLOS ANGELES …LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $57,100 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL…BIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $33,500 · PhilanthropyBIKES FOR KI…+2 more: $17,500 · PhilanthropyChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $96,280 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $53,870 · HealthWhite Memorial Med Cntr Charitable Fdtn Adventist Health White Memorial Ch Fdtn: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $52,535 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $18,660 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $14,550 · Human ServicesDONNIE EDWARDS BEST DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $23,715 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,824,304Education$746,500Recreation & Sports$595,995Philanthropy$416,762Health$165,150Human Services$100,745Public Safety & Disaster$63,715

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 budgetTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $500,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $308,662 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBABY2BABY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $96,280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $57,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $53,870 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $52,535 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTeam Heal Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetPALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $48,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $33,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEmpower Charter School: $28,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSt Francis Center: $25,920 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $23,715 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $18,660 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $14,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budget911 DAY: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES: $11,160 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDONNIE EDWARDS BEST DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPower of One Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWhite Memorial Med Cntr Charitable Fdtn Adventist Health White Memorial Ch Fdtn: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOSTA MESA COMMUNITY ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

  • Who funds THE PLAY EQUITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds LULU'S PLACE INC ↗
  • 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 PALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
  • Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA SPORTS GROUP INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 …Sempra FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…The California Endowm…For Inspiration and R…Project Lead the Way …The Annenberg Foundat…The San Diego Foundat…Share Our StrengthGs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…
California Community FoundationCA18.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Chargers Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Los Angeles Chargers Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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

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    How do I get to Los Angeles Chargers Charities?

    Find your warmest path to Los Angeles Chargers Charities 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 63 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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