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Lulu's Place Inc

Own and operate a multi-sport and learning center campus for the general public that provides programs to the low-income and under-represented youth and families in and around los angeles, california.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.6MRecreation & Sports$102kPhilanthropy$25kSocial Science$13kYouth Development$10k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$1,500,000
KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS$25,000
WESTCHESTER LITTLE LEAGUE$5,200
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TGR FOUNDATION: $70k → 10%THE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $25k → 14%UNITED STATES TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC: $29k → 9%TGR FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%USTA NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER: $23k → 9%THE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $13k → 14%USTA NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER: $20k → 9%LA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1.5M → 14%KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $25k → 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 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
United States Tennis Association Southwest Section Inc

Our mission is to promote and develop the growth of tennis in the southwest

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2
International Tennis Hall of Fame Incorporated

The international tennis hall of fame (ithf) is a non-profit organization that preserves the history of tennis and celebrates to inspire excellence across generations globally. founded in 1954 in newport, ri, the ithf honors tennis'…

Recreation & Sports
3
Usta Player Development Incorporated

The mission of usta player development is to educate and train young people in the sport of tennis through a clearly defined structure and competitive pathway, as well as through the implementation of a comprehensive coaching philosophy.

Recreation & Sports
4
National Collegiate Athletic Association

Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.

Recreation & Sports
5
Usta Northern California

To promote and develop the growth of tennis as an inclusive and inviting lifetime activity in the northern california section.

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6
United States Golf Association

The united states golf association champions and advances the game of golf. it serves millions of golfers and thousands of golf courses both within the united states and around the world through programs and services that promote a…

Recreation & Sports
7
Usa Taekwondo Inc

The purpose of usa taekwondo shall be to enable united states athletes to achieve sustained competitive excellence in the sport of taekwondo in the united states and to serve as the national governing body for the sport of taekwondo under…

Recreation & Sports
8
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
9
National Lacrosse League Inc

To promote and foster member clubs by exhibiting to the public professional indoor lacrosse of the highest possible quality, and to enhance public awareness of the sport and its players.

Recreation & Sports
10
Federation of International Lacrosse Inc

World lacrosse is the international olympic committee recognized international federation for the sport of lacrosse. as such, it governs the sport globally working with 90+ member national governing bodies and four (4) currently recognized…

Recreation & Sports
11
National Basketball Players Association

The national basketball players association (nbpa) serves to protect and advance the rights of our players.

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12
Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission

Lasec works to attract, secure and support high-profile sports and entertainment events in los angeles. major events leave a lasting, positive impact on the host city and generate hundreds of millions of dollars in economic impact and…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Usta Foundation Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is United States Tennis Association Incorporated. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1,500,000 · OtherLA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT+2 more: $41,500 · OtherTIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · EducationTIGER WOOD…THE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $25,000 · EducationTHE PLAY E…KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $25,000 · EducationKIPP SOCAL…USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $43,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsWESTCHESTER DEL REY LITTLE LEAGUE: $5,200 · Recreation & SportsCOACHARTORG: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,541,500Education$170,000Recreation & Sports$73,200Youth Development$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $43,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES TENNIS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $29,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHARTORG: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWESTCHESTER DEL REY LITTLE LEAGUE: $5,200 over 1y, 4.7% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lulu's Place Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lulu's Place Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    3report 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lulu's Place Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lulu's Place Inc 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 10 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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