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PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS
Transform schools to revolutionize school systems to empower all students with a high-quality education.
$2.1M
Granted FY2024
22
Grants
3
Communities
$627k
Largest
01What you fund
0164% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Education$4.4MHuman Services$221kCommunity Improvement$124kRecreation & Sports$58kArts & Culture$43kPhilanthropy$20kOther$2.8M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
elementary
2020
stakeholder supportsposition
2021
stakeholder supports
2022
artseffective implementationimplementation cohortcohort participationaccess equity
2023
feesaccess equityeffective implementationimplementation cohortcohort participation
2024
effective implementationimplementation cohortcohort participation
2025
effective implementationimplementation cohortcohort participation
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 22 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k17 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $540k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
- LEADING EDUCATORS INC$626,939
- THE ACHIEVEMENT NETWORK LTD$455,798
- LAUSD DIVISION OF INSTRUCTION$200,000
- LOCAL DISTRICT EAST$198,000
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL$142,080
- REGION NORTH$30,000
- LOCAL DISTRICT SOUTH$25,000
- LOCAL DISTRICT WEST$15,000
- BARACK OBAMA GLOBAL PREPARATION ACADEMY$10,000
- CONTRERAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND TOURISM$10,000
- SONIA M SOTOMAYOR ARTS AND SCIENCES MAGNET$10,000
- RUDECINDA SEPULVEDA DODSON MIDDLE SCHOOL$10,000
- HARRY BRIDGES SPAN SCHOOL$10,000
- ANDREW CARNEGIE MIDDLE SCHOOL$10,000
- RICHARD HENRY DANA MIDDLE SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.3M · 17 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
17
32
Total granted
$5.3M
$1.8M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+47%
0%
Still filing today
35%
16%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $528k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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
- LELEADING EDUCATORS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +47%
- PPPROYECTO PASTORAL4× · 2020–2023 · $129k · revenue +37%
COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT4× · 2020–2023 · $124k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- PNPARTNERSHIP NETWORK HIGH SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $841k
- FGFLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER ELEMENTARYone grant, 2018 · $184k
- LLLAUSD LOCAL DISTRICT SOUTHone grant, 2023 · $115k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles
Through a school-based coordinator, we strategically align and deliver needed resources empowering students to stay in school and achieve in life
Youth Development
2
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
Transform schools to revolutionize school systems to empower all students with a high-quality education.
Education
3
Los Angeles College Prep Academy
Public charter school offering college preparatory education to students in northeast l.a.
Education
4
The Language Academy of Sacramento
To prepare k-8th grade students to excel academically in spanish & english.
Education
5
United Way Inc
We can accomplish more together than alone. by combining community power, (cont. on sch. o) donations and new solutions to long standing challenges we can support neighbors on a pathway from poverty to prosperity.
Philanthropy
6
California School Boards Association
Promoting k-12 public education success through aggressive advocacy and effective school board governance.
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7
University of California Student
The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…
Education
8
La Coalition for Excellent Public School
Working to ensure that all students in la have access to excellent public schools.
Education
9
Collegiate Charter High School of Los
Collegiate charter high school is a public college preparatory high school in los angeles, ca.
Education
10
International School of Los Angeles
See mission statement from part iii line 1 on schedule o.
Education
11
Westside Neighborhood School
An independent day school providing education for students from pre-k to 8 grades.
Education
12
Innovate Public Schools
Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inner-City Arts and the most unlike its peers is Watts Century Latino Organization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$4,438,771Other$2,750,140Human Services$221,300Community Improvement$123,500Recreation & Sports$57,802Arts & Culture$42,500Philanthropy$20,000
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 LEADING EDUCATORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACHIEVEMENT NETWORK LTD ↗
- Who funds PROYECTO PASTORAL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY STRUGGLE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds USC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE-BLACK UNITED FUND 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Weingart FoundationCA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Weingart Foundation · Community Partners · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Altamed Health Services Corporation · The Smidt Foundation · The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation · Ccf Community Initiatives Fund · The California Wellness 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 organisation PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- The Achievement Network Ltd — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~32 months of operating runway; revenue held over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 954493310 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 32 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Partnership for Los Angeles Schools?
Find your warmest path to Partnership for Los Angeles Schools through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines