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Los Angeles Rams Foundation

To support efforts and organizations that inspire positive change in the greater los angeles area with the emphasis on youth.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$220k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.2MEducation$1.1MPhilanthropy$706kRecreation & Sports$588kHousing & Shelter$368kHealth$350kArts & Culture$315kHuman Services$192kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 45 grants below total $1,298,858, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,745,678 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $446,820 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $506k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $757k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELLAS CONSTRUCTION INC$220,148
CITY YEAR INC$100,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$100,000
Players Philanthropy Fund$100,000
THE PLAY EQUITY FUND$100,000
GAMEBREAKER INC$69,367
FULFILLMENT FUND$67,450
TRIANGLE SPORTS$35,499
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES$34,000
RIDDELL INC$25,972
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$25,000
LA PROMISE FUND$25,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$25,000
GREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION$25,000
WEST COAST SPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $531k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Covenant House: $20k → 21%City Year Inc: $100k → 16%Our Own Non Profit Inc: $5k → 14%Exceptional Children's Foundation: $22k → 14%Exceptional Children's Foundation: $15k → 14%Sharefest Community Development Inc: $34k → 14%Sharefest Community Development Inc: $26k → 14%Sharefest Community: $20k → 14%HOPE OF THE VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%Children's Institute: $29k → 14%Innercity Struggle: $11k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $8k → 14%I Have A Dream Foundation: $10k → 14%St Joseph Center: $35k → 14%YMCA of Greater Los Angeles: $9k → 14%St Joseph Center: $15k → 14%YMCA of Greater Los Angeles: $6k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $20k → 14%St Margaret's Center: $13k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $10k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $67k → 14%Fulfillment Fund: $25k → 14%Los Angeles Police Foundation: $20k → 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

WA
NY
MA
IN
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
HI
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 34 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
30

Total granted

$3.7M
$628k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+22%

Still filing today

97%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $651k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CITY YEAR INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $510k · revenue +15%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    3× · 2017–2022 · $329k · revenue +62%
  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $315k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • HA
    HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +36%
  • TS
    THE SOLA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +471%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
College Match

College match partners with high schools in los angeles county to identify high-achieving, low-income high school students and provide them with the necessary tools and guidance to get into top-ranked colleges with significant financial…

Education
2
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
3
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
4
Los Angeles Education Partnership

To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.

—
5
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
6
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
7
Los Angeles Team Mentoring Inc

Los Angeles Team Mentorings (LATM) mission is to guide middle school students growing up in challenging urban environments to recognize and reach their full potential. See Schedule O for more details.

Youth Development
8
Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County

The function of the corporation shall be to ease the burdens of government by assisting, implementing, supporting and/or contributing to the support of programs, projects and activities of a public nature. which are directed toward…

—
9
Families in Schools

To ensure student success by building authentic partnerships between families, educators, and system leaders, and through parent-led advocacy.

Education
10
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
11
Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles

Girl scouts' mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. girl scouts of greater los angeles ("gsgla the "council "girl scouts"), the largest girl-serving nonprofit in southern…

Youth Development
12
Great Public Schools Now

The organization invests in schools, organizations and initiatives that catalyze excellence in public education, convenes leaders and uplifts public understanding to advocate for great public schools.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Phl Inc. 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

83 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. 83 of the 95 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/83
Grantees still filing
58/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY YEAR INC: $510,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCHELLAS CONSTRUCTION INC: $220,148 · OtherHELLAS CONSTRUCTION INCA PLACE CALLED HOME: $105,000 · OtherGAMEBREAKER INC: $69,367 · OtherGAMEBREAKERS INC: $167,746 · OtherGAMEBREAKERS INC+38 more: $905,578 · Other+38 moreTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $300,000 · EducationTHE PLAY EQUITY F…LA PROMISE FUND: $150,000 · EducationLA PROMISE FUNDGREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $95,392 · EducationGREATER LOS ANGEL…COLLEGE TRACK: $60,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACKGreen Dot Public Schools: $60,000 · EducationGreen Dot Public …HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $50,000 · EducationHORATIO ALGER ASS…PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $30,000 · Education+7 more: $64,250 · Education+7 moreUNITED WAY INC: $281,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INCVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyVENTURA COUNTY …PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANT…LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $90,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ANGELES BRO…LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FO…MAUI UNITED WAY: $35,200 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $329,450 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS C…HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS A…HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $73,184 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUST…THE SOLA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SOLA FOUND…BOSS Inc: $47,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOSS IncBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $34,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentSharefest Community Development Inc: $180,400 · Human ServicesSharefest C…FULFILLMENT FUND: $92,450 · Human ServicesFULFILLMENT…ST JOSEPH CENTER: $60,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH C…EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $37,550 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL…CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES: $29,400 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S …Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $25,155 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $20,000 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $20,000 · Human Services+5 more: $46,190 · Human Services+5 moreNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $315,000 · Arts & CultureMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL COAST AND SOUTHERN CENTRAL VALLEY: $88,870 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $53,993 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $50,000 · HealthWEST COAST SPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthWOMEN'S GUILD CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $15,000 · HealthTHE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION): $10,000 · Health
Other$1,977,839Education$809,642Philanthropy$731,200Youth Development$666,634Human Services$531,145Arts & Culture$315,000Health$242,863

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 budgetCITY YEAR INC: $510,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $329,450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $315,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $300,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $281,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSharefest Community Development Inc: $180,400 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLA PROMISE FUND: $150,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $105,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $100,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $95,392 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND: $92,450 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL COAST AND SOUTHERN CENTRAL VALLEY: $88,870 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $73,184 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $65,796 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreen Dot Public Schools: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $53,993 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIsaac Bruce Foundation: $50,800 over 2y, 11% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOLA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSS Inc: $47,500 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $47,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Room & Board: $40,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $37,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI: $36,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRIANGLE SPORTS COMMISSION: $35,499 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $35,200 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $34,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1: $33,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES: $29,400 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $25,155 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST COAST SPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD SHARE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoss Initiative in Sports for Equality: $21,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 Annenberg Foundat…The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Joseph Drown Foundati…The Eli and Edythe Br…United Way IncThe Play Equity FundThe Los Angeles Dodge…Great Public Schools …Elbridge Stuart Found…
California Community FoundationCA39.5× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Joseph Drown Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · United Way Inc · The Play Equity Fund · The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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How do I get to Los Angeles Rams Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Los Angeles Rams 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 95 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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