· Private foundation
Los Angeles Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of LOS ANGELES RETIRED FIRE AND POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCALPUT | $10,000 |
| LAFDHS | $7,125 |
| UNITED FIREFIGHTERS OF LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE FOUNDATION (UFLAC) | $5,500 |
| LAPD FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES POLICE EMERALD SOCIETY PIPES AND DRUMS (LAPESPD) | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES POLICE PROTECTIVE LEAGUE | $4,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,400 |
| VARIOUS INDIVIDUALS 1000 AND LESS | $3,100 |
| LOS ANGELES FIREMEN'S RELIEF ASSOCIATION (LAFRA) | $2,000 |
| LA POLICE MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,850 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,700 |
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 (FY21–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- UFUNITED FIREFIGHTERS OF LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +31%
- ALA Light of Hope Support Center3× · 2018–2020 · $25k · revenue +11%
- LALOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
- LALOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +152%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $14k
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.
Supporting families of fallen law enforcement officers
Lacfdf supports fire departments, fire stations and firefighters in and around the la county area, thought the years we have provided training, equipment and support for them and the greater community.
LAPRAACS mission is to encourage the highest level of professional law enforcement skills, providing athlectic edcuational marksmanship, physical fitness, facilities, recreation & social activities to benefit all members of the Los Angeles…
The foundation provides grants to los angeles police department employees and their families who are experiencing financial difficulty due to death, injury or illness.
LAFRA provides a variety of benefits and services to members of the Los Angeles Fire Department, retirees and their dependents.
The CA FOP Foundation was founded to provide emergency benefits to California Fraternal Order of Police members, Law Enforcement employees and the members of their families in times of crisis. The CA FOP Foundation supports many projects…
The mission of the eagle & badge foundation is to provide support to los angeles police officers, their families and the children in the communities they serve.
Civic organization for police officers
The foundation maintains the los angeles fire department historical society museum and educates the general public on the history of the la fire department.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Police Foundation and the most unlike its peers is A Light of Hope Support Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 81 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 UNITED FIREFIGHTERS OF LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN FIREFIGHTER MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds A Light of Hope Support Center ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Widows Orphans & Disabled Firefighter's Fund ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAMPART POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association 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.