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Los Angeles Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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Los Angeles Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$250kPublic Safety & Disaster$250kArts & Culture$100kHealth$70kScience & Tech$40kCrime & Legal$12kEmployment$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,400
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCALPUT$10,000
LAFDHS$7,125
UNITED FIREFIGHTERS OF LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE FOUNDATION (UFLAC)$5,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
LAPD FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP$5,000
LOS ANGELES POLICE EMERALD SOCIETY PIPES AND DRUMS (LAPESPD)$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $700 → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $600 → 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.
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$530k · 26 repeat orgs$291k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
47

Total granted

$530k
$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+152%

Still filing today

31%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
HealthArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UF
    UNITED FIREFIGHTERS OF LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +31%
  • AL
    A Light of Hope Support Center
    3× · 2018–2020 · $25k · revenue +35%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +152%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $14k
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
Los Angeles Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association
Crime & Legal
2
Los Angeles County Law Enforcement Trust

Supporting families of fallen law enforcement officers

Human Services
3
The L a Fire Department Scholarship Fund
Education
4
Forbadges
Health
5
Los Angeles County Fire Department Foundation

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Los Angeles Police Revl & Athl Club

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…

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7
Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation

The foundation provides grants to los angeles police department employees and their families who are experiencing financial difficulty due to death, injury or illness.

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8
Los Angeles Firemen's Relief Association

LAFRA provides a variety of benefits and services to members of the Los Angeles Fire Department, retirees and their dependents.

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9
California Fraternal Order of Police Foundation

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…

Education
10
Eagle and Badge Foundation

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Los Alamitos Police Officers Association

Civic organization for police officers

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12
Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Society

The foundation maintains the los angeles fire department historical society museum and educates the general public on the history of the la fire department.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Police Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 81 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPART HISTORICAL SOC: $83,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPART HISTORICAL SOCLA POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherLA POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONLA POLICE MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $42,999 · OtherLA POLICE MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETYSOCALPUT: $40,000 · OtherSOCALPUTLAFDHS: $34,125 · OtherDESERT REFUGE FOR PEACE OFFICERS CO CORRIE MALINKA TREASURER: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM: $25,000 · Other+63 more: $354,651 · Other+63 moreUNITED FIREFIGHTERS OF LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE FOUNDATION: $38,000 · HealthA Light of Hope Support Center: $25,000 · HealthAFRICAN AMERICAN FIREFIGHTER MUSEUM: $27,500 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES POLICE EMERALD SOCIETY PIPES AND DRUMS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWidows Orphans & Disabled Firefighter's Fund: $15,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $3,168 · Public Safety & DisasterLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $8,800 · Human ServicesRAMPART POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC: $5,155 · Crime & LegalLOS ANGELES WOMEN POLICE OFFICERS AND ASSOCIATES: $3,000 · Crime & LegalST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$689,775Health$63,000Arts & Culture$32,500Public Safety & Disaster$18,168Human Services$8,800Crime & Legal$8,155Philanthropy$1,000

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 budgetUNITED FIREFIGHTERS OF LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN FIREFIGHTER MUSEUM: $27,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetA Light of Hope Support Center: $25,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetWidows Orphans & Disabled Firefighter's Fund: $15,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $8,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRAMPART POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC: $5,155 over 2y, 26% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE EMERALD SOCIETY PIPES AND DRUMS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $4,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $3,168 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES WOMEN POLICE OFFICERS AND ASSOCIATES: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds UNITED FIREFIGHTERS OF LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN FIREFIGHTER MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds A Light of Hope Support Center ↗
  • Who funds Widows Orphans & Disabled Firefighter's Fund ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RAMPART POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE EMERALD SOCIETY PIPES AND DRUMS INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Los Angeles Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 81 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-PF 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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