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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.

$381k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$70k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$960kEducation$218kRecreation & Sports$206kHuman Services$123kHealth$83kPhilanthropy$65kArts & Culture$48kCrime & Legal$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $262,859, the rows itemized in this filing. The $380,930 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $118,071 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 $10k5 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $123k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE PAINTED TURTLE$10,000
ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII$10,000
HEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PASADENA$10,000
C5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC$10,000
JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOC OF LA$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA$10,000
COMMUNITY OUTREACH ALLIANCE$8,125
BRAVE TRAILS$8,125
GAY MENS CHORUS OF LOS ANGELES$8,125
SPORTS EQUALITY FOUNDATION$8,125
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Interface Children & Family Services: $10k → 10%Exceptional Children's Foundation: $10k → 14%LEGACY LADIES INC: $15k → 14%Legacy Ladies Inc: $10k → 14%Covenant House California: $50k → 14%Hillsides: $15k → 14%SANTA MONICA FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 14%Proyecto Pastoral: $10k → 14%Angel City Sports: $10k → 14%YWCA: $10k → 14%ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%Neighborhood Youth Association: $10k → 14%WALK WITH SALLY: $8k → 14%UNITED IN HARMONY: $8k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NV
IN
CA
TN
DC
HI
GA
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Los Angeles Lakers Youth Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 83%.

Los Angeles Lakers Youth Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$912k · 19 repeat orgs$792k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
50

Total granted

$912k
$702k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+21%

Still filing today

89%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES
    5× · 2018–2025 · $216k · revenue +61%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR
    2× · 2020–2025 · $113k · revenue +71%
  • TM
    THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES
    2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • SF
    SKYHOOK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $62k · revenue -43%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +197%
  • PL
    Project Lead the Way Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue 0%
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
Legacy La Youth Development Corp

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…

Crime & Legal
2
Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood Inc

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.

Youth Development
3
Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley

To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.

Youth Development
4
Boys & Girls Club of La Plata County Inc

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
5
Girls Inc of Greater Los Angeles

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.

Youth Development
6
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
7
Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as healthy, caring, and responsible adults.

Youth Development
8
The Los Angeles County Alliance for Boys and Girls Clubs

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.

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9
Boys & Girls Club of Pbc

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.

Youth Development
10
After-School All-Stars

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…

Unclassified
11
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
12
East Los Angeles Boys and Girls Club

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…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After-School All-Stars Los Angeles; 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.
05the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 82 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/78
Grantees still filing
50/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $216,067 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELESBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $113,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBORTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PAINTED TURTLEHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $64,981 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INCPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $24,000 · Youth Development+15 more: $177,000 · Youth Development+15 moreKOBE & VANESSA BRYANT FAMILY FOUNDATION: $90,008 · OtherKOBE & VANESSA BRYANT FAMILY FOUN…Project Lead the Way Inc: $40,000 · OtherProject Lead the Way IncTELACU EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherTELACU EDUCATION FOUNDATIONPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK: $30,000 · OtherPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORKBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY: $25,000 · OtherSound Body Sound Mind: $25,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley: $21,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WHITTIER INC: $20,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $20,000 · OtherA PLACE CALLED HOME: $20,000 · OtherARTLAB21 FOUNDATION ESMOA: $20,000 · Other+19 more: $188,000 · Other+19 moreCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HO…LEGACY LADIES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesLEGACY LADI…HILLSIDES: $15,000 · Human ServicesHILLSIDESAngel City Alliance: $10,000 · Human ServicesAngel City …EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHAR…EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL…NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOO…SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesSANTA MONIC…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN…Proyecto Pastoral: $10,000 · Human ServicesProyecto Pa…Interface Children Family Services: $10,000 · Human ServicesInterface C…WALK WITH SALLY: $7,500 · Human ServicesUNITED IN HARMONY: $7,500 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $35,000 · EducationFISK UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BURBANK AND GREATER EAST VALLEY INC: $20,000 · EducationAEG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (FKA STAPLES CENTER FOUNDATION): $10,964 · EducationPUENTE LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 · EducationAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS LOS ANGELES: $10,000 · EducationLA'S BEST: $10,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $7,500 · EducationTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $35,000 · PhilanthropyMGM RESORTS FOUNDATION: $19,905 · PhilanthropyGASOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - LOS ANGELES: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropySKYHOOK FOUNDATION: $61,900 · Community ImprovementHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsLOS ANGELES UNITED FUTBOL ACADEMY: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsTOGETHER WE RISE: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Youth Development$715,048Other$529,008Human Services$185,000Education$123,464Philanthropy$84,905Community Improvement$71,900Recreation & Sports$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $216,067 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $113,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $95,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetKOBE & VANESSA BRYANT FAMILY FOUNDATION: $90,008 over 2y, 24% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $64,981 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSKYHOOK FOUNDATION: $61,900 over 1y, 16% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetProject Lead the Way Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTELACU EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY LADIES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $24,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley: $21,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARTLAB21 FOUNDATION ESMOA: $20,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WHITTIER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetC5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BURBANK AND GREATER EAST VALLEY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMGM RESORTS FOUNDATION: $19,905 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPF Bresee Foundation: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSIDES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM PRIME TIME INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAEG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (FKA STAPLES CENTER FOUNDATION): $10,964 over 1y, 68% of budgetWE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUENTE LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANTA CLARITA VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOMORROWS AERONAUTICAL MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProyecto Pastoral: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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 …The Ralph M Parsons F…The Rose Hills Founda…Elbridge Stuart Found…The Annenberg Foundat…Weingart FoundationLa84 FoundationThe Ahmanson Foundati…The Green FoundationUnited Way IncGreat Public Schools …Boys & Girls Clubs of…
California Community FoundationCA55.1× affinity39 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 Lakers Youth Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Los Angeles Lakers Youth Foundation 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 82 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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