· Public charity
Los Angeles Universal Preschool
Child360 works to improve the quality of early learning and give children the best start in school and life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 81 grants below total $3,874,121 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,395,331 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $521,210 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k27 grants · $190k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $791k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $789k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Los Angeles Unified School District | $536,370 |
| Volunteers of America of Los Angeles | $252,300 |
| Flora McGregory | $202,245 |
| Long Beach Day Nursery | $201,735 |
| Plaza De La Raza Child Development Services Inc | $190,480 |
| Drew Child Development Corporation | $181,925 |
| Sunny West Child Development Center | $162,525 |
| Compton Unified School District | $114,420 |
| Pomona USD | $106,270 |
| Foundation For Early Childhood Education | $104,210 |
| Baldwin Park Unified School District | $100,270 |
| Lynwood Unified School District | $96,360 |
| Hacienda-La Puente USD | $86,360 |
| ABC Unified School District | $86,300 |
| Norwalk La Mirada Unified School District | $86,240 |
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 (FY17–20, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k 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
- MAMexican American Opportunity Foundation2× · 2017–2020 · $573k · revenue +150%
- LBLONG BEACH DAY NURSERY4× · 2017–2020 · $510k · revenue +66%
- DCDREW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION2× · 2019–2020 · $461k · revenue +171%
Funded once
- LULYNWOOD UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $296k
- SMSANTA MONICA COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $160k
- LALOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $154k · revenue +12%
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.
Providing low-cost, diverse social services throughout los angeles county.
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
Child lane provides care in an environment where play is valued and children are supported to reach their full potential.
The center is a non-profit organization providing quality early education and care for infants, toddlers and preschool age children for the caltech and pasadena communities. caring, nurturing educators staff this outstanding program. the…
Los Angeles First Preschool is to Provide affordable Quality Child Care Service and Preschool Education for Children to enable Parents to be employed.
Working together to strengthen families and ensure high-quality child care and early learning across los angeles county.
To provide comprehensive educational opportunities for preschool children from low-income families; to provide alternatives in childcare for children of low-income families; (continued on Schedule O)
To provide a quality child development program in an atmosphere conducive to the development of the whole child.
Cca is committed to preparing young children to be global citizens who are developmentally well-rounded, emotionally literate, and environmentally conscious.
We provide quality early childhood education and day care for children ages one to five years. We strive to promote each childs intellectual, emotional, social, and physical development in preparation for kindergarten.
Pathways LA strengthens low-income and vulnerable working families, promotes high quality early care and education services for children of all abilities, develops knowledgeable early care providers, and promotes economically resilient…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Para Los Ninos and the most unlike its peers is Charter Oak Education Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 134 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 Mexican American Opportunity Foundation ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds Plaza de la Raza Child Development Services Inc ↗
- Who funds DREW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Around the Korner Center for School-Age Enrichment ↗
- Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds Long Beach Community Improvement League ↗
- Who funds Human Services Association ↗
- Who funds MARYVALE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Early Childhood Education ↗
- Who funds Child Development Consortium of Los Angeles Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Baby2baby · California Community Foundation · Community Partners · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Foundation for California Community Colleges · The Ahmanson Foundation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Share Our Strength · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Raising A Reader · Giving Children Hope · Sempra 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 Universal Preschool 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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