· Private foundation
Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the Arts
Provide grants to local arts organizations.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| USC Kaufman School of Dance | $15,000 |
| UCLA Foundation | $15,000 |
| The Opera Buffs | $15,000 |
| California Dance Institute | $10,000 |
| Ojai Playwrights Conference | $10,000 |
| Bodytraffic | $10,000 |
| Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra | $5,000 |
| Ojai Music Festival | $5,000 |
| Ruskin Theater | $5,000 |
| Urban Voices Project | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Pacific Opera Project | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
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…
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 BODY TRAFFIC ↗
- Who funds California Dance Institute ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OJAI FESTIVALS LTD ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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