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Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation

Our mission is to inspire wonder, discovery and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds. This is accomplished through permanent and traveling exhibits, public programming and educational and research programs.

$92k
Granted FY2018
1
Itemized grants FY2018
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100% of Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to University Of Southern California, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’17
0
’18

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2018
$39k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$39,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$39,000
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$487M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$61k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2018.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES$39,000

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About Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation

How much does Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation give?
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $39,000, out of $91,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation fund?
By grant dollars, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Where is Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation based?
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation is based in CA.

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 1 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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