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Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation

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

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$30MYouth Development$225kPhilanthropy$80kArts & Culture$61kReligion$42kEducation$41kHealth$25kPublic Benefit$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $13,319,435 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $17,983,706 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,664,271 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.

$13,319,435
Median grant
1
States reached
$96M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT$13,319,435
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WELLS FARGO PD: $7k → 10%SOPHIAGRACE FOUNDATION: $42k → 14%MARATHON PETROLEUM FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT: $13.3M → 14%LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $4.2M → 14%LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3.1M → 14%LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPT PROGRAM: $2.8M → 14%LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPT PROGRAM: $2.1M → 14%LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2.0M → 14%LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPT PROGRAM: $1.4M → 14%LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT: $324k → 14%KECK WILDFIRE RELIEF: $77k → 14%FARMERSBOC UNDERSVD STATIONS: $73k → 14%TOYOTA4GOOD FUND: $39k → 14%CARUSO CORE & VAX SUPPORT: $28k → 14%UB & NEU CROWLEY EVENT: $23k → 14%MAYOR'S FUND FOR LA: $21k → 14%EIF AIR OPERATIONS: $20k → 14%MISC DONORS YP GENERAL: $18k → 14%MOTOROLA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $13k → 14%NEU DISASTER RESPONSE: $9k → 14%BOARD MEMBERS UNDERSERVED STATIONS: $8k → 14%KAISER APRU: $8k → 14%CONFIDENCE FOUNDATION: $225k → 14%MERICOS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%GOOD HOPE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%UCLAESRAILIAN: $61k → 14%ANNENBERG FOUNDATION: $41k → 14%MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your 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.

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Rosenberg Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Artemis Foundation
—
3
Meridian Foundation
—
4
Telos Foundation
—
5
Raymond Mallel Foundation
—
6
The Segerstrom Foundation
—
7
The Smd Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Meridian Capital Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The Mayer - Rothschild Foundation
Health
10
The Lederhausen Foundation
Philanthropy
11
The Milstein Family Foundation
Philanthropy
12
The Polaris Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gary Sinise Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Annenberg Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $19,902,331 · Public Safety & DisasterLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATIONCITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS — $9,665,068 · OtherCITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF REC…+8 more — $367,135 · OtherSOPHIAGRACE FOUNDATION — $42,416 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $35,000 · PhilanthropyROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION — $41,311 · EducationCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $10,000 · Health
Public Safety & Disaster$19,902,331Other$10,032,203Philanthropy$102,416Education$41,311Health$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $19,902,331 over 4y, 52% of budgetTHE CONFIDENCE FOUNDATION — $225,025 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetTHE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION — $41,311 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MERICOS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGOOD HOPE MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMotorola Solutions Foundation — $9,648 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation 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.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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