· Private foundation
Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the Arts
Provide grants to local arts organizations.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $174k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Santa Monica College Foundation | $45,000 |
| Madison Project | $28,500 |
| Colburn School | $25,000 |
| UCLA Foundation | $15,000 |
| USC Kaufman School of Dance | $15,000 |
| The Opera Buffs | $15,000 |
| California Dance Institute | $10,000 |
| Bodytraffic | $10,000 |
| Ojai Playwrights Conference | $10,000 |
| Ruskin Theater | $5,000 |
| Kids in the Spotlight | $5,000 |
| Urban Voices Project | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Ojai Music Festival | $5,000 |
| Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
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 serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
Engaging people through provocative meaningful experiences that challenge, connect and inspire. long beach opera produces operas in performing arts venues in long beach and regionally, and produces opera for youth in schools.
Camerata Pacifica's mission is to affect positively how people experience live performances of classical music. The Organization will engage our audience intellectually and emotionally by presenting the finest performance of familiar and…
Vox femina los angeles gives women voice through the performance of high quality choral literature. vox is a diverse chorus of the community committed to commissioning new works and raising awareness about issues that affect women. through…
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra strives to enlighten and inspire the diverse citizenry of Culver City and the Los Angeles area through the presentation of orchestral music concerts, to present works of American composers, and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pacific Opera Project and the most unlike its peers is Verdi Chorus co Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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 THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADISON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OJAI PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds California Dance Institute ↗
- Who funds BODY TRAFFIC ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OJAI FESTIVALS LTD ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN VOICES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Verdi Chorus co Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt ↗
- Who funds THE OPERA LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
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: Colburn Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Audre Slater Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Greater Horizons · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Philanthropic Committee for the Arts 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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