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Los Angeles Lakers Youth Foundation
The LOS ANGELES LAKERS YOUTH FOUNDATION is a registered 501(c)3 organization and the official team charity of the los angeles lakers.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $262,859 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $380,930 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $118,071 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METRO LOS ANGELES | $69,878 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LA HARBOR | $53,000 |
| HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC | $19,981 |
| HEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA | $10,000 |
| JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOC OF LA | $10,000 |
| C5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PASADENA | $10,000 |
| ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| THE PAINTED TURTLE | $10,000 |
| BRAVE TRAILS | $8,125 |
| SPORTS EQUALITY FOUNDATION | $8,125 |
| COMMUNITY OUTREACH ALLIANCE | $8,125 |
| GAY MENS CHORUS OF LOS ANGELES | $8,125 |
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 (FY17–25, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Los Angeles Lakers Youth Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES5× · 2018–2025 · $216k · revenue +61%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR2× · 2020–2025 · $113k · revenue +71%
- TMTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- SFSKYHOOK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $62k · revenue -43%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +197%
- PLProject Lead the Way Incone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue 0%
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.
To make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. legacy la builds the capacity of youth to reach their full potential and equips them with tools to transform their lives and…
Boys and girls club of hollywood provides educational programs in diverse subjects that are focused on providing structured learning to the children of our community.
To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Girls inc. of los angeles' mission is to empower the girls of los angeles to tap into their strengths and amplify their talents with pro-girl results-oriented programs, events and advocacy.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as healthy, caring, and responsible adults.
The alliance was established to support the 23 clubs in the los angeles county by securing resources and marketing the boys and girls clubs to support the efforts of each individual club to increase their impact and outreach.
The mission of the boys & girls club of palm beach county is to inspire and assist all young people, especially those who need them most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
After-school all-stars provides out-of-school time academic, tutoring, mentoring, career-readiness, sports and recreation, health and wellness, and other education and enrichment prpograms to underserved and vulnerable youth and families…
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.
We connect community and collaborators to ensure equal access to transformative opportunities for youth. through targeted enrichment programs that engage, educate, equip, and empower, we guide young people to set goals, take action, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After-School All-Stars Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Aeg Community Foundation (Fka Staples Center Foundation). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 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 — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 82 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds KOBE & VANESSA BRYANT FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SKYHOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Project Lead the Way Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds TELACU EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds LEGACY LADIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS RUN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BURBANK AND GREATER EAST VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WHITTIER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds FISK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARTLAB21 FOUNDATION ESMOA ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds C5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds MGM RESORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PF Bresee Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES UNITED FUTBOL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds TEAM PRIME TIME INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDES ↗
- Who funds CHANGING THE HEALTH OF ADOLESCENTS IMPACTING THE NATION REACTION INC ↗
- Who funds STEVE & MARJORIE HARVEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AEG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (FKA STAPLES CENTER FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LA'S BEST ↗
- Who funds PUENTE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH ↗
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 · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Weingart Foundation · La84 Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Green Foundation · United Way Inc · Great Public Schools Now · Boys & Girls Clubs of 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 Lakers Youth 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.
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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