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Partnership for Los Angeles Schools

We transform schools to revolutionize school systems, empowering all students with a high-quality education.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$811k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$8.5MHealth$283kCommunity Improvement$149kArts & Culture$138kRecreation & Sports$65kPublic Safety & Disaster$31kHuman Services$10kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $1,490,953, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,910,569 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $419,616 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$610,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEADING EDUCATORS INC$810,953
LAUSD (ADMINISTRATOR OF MIDDLE SCHOOL INSTRUCTION) DIVISION OF INSTRUCTION$610,000
LAUSD (EDUCATIONAL TRANSFORMATION OFFICE)$70,000
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 (FY20–23, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $39k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $31k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $30k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $30k → 14%INNER CITY STRUGGLE: $31k → 14%INNER CITY STRUGGLE: $31k → 14%INNER CITY STRUGGLE: $30k → 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 17 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
45

Total granted

$6.4M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
0%

Still filing today

29%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $680k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TA
    THE ACHIEVEMENT NETWORK LTD
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +1%
  • PP
    Proyecto Pastoral
    4× · 2020–2023 · $129k · revenue +61%
  • COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
    4× · 2020–2023 · $124k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • PN
    PARTNERSHIP NETWORK HIGH SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2023 · $841k
  • LD
    LAUSD DIVISION OF INSTRUCTION
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $198k
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 Team Mentoring Inc

Los Angeles Team Mentorings (LATM) mission is to guide middle school students growing up in challenging urban environments to recognize and reach their full potential. See Schedule O for more details.

Youth Development
2
Legacy La Youth Development Corp

To make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. legacy la builds the capacity of youth to reach their full potential and equips them with tools to transform their lives and…

Crime & Legal
3
New Los Angeles Charter School

New los angeles charter school develops a diverse community of students who are passionate about learning, engaged in their community, and have respect for themselves and others.

Education
4
Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County

The function of the corporation shall be to ease the burdens of government by assisting, implementing, supporting and/or contributing to the support of programs, projects and activities of a public nature. which are directed toward…

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5
Los Angeles Education Partnership

To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.

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6
Great Public Schools Now

The organization invests in schools, organizations and initiatives that catalyze excellence in public education, convenes leaders and uplifts public understanding to advocate for great public schools.

Education
7
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
8
Families in Schools

To ensure student success by building authentic partnerships between families, educators, and system leaders, and through parent-led advocacy.

Education
9
The Urban Assembly Inc

To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.

International
10
Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning

Casel is a trusted source for knowledge about high-quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning (sel). our mission is to help make evidence-based social and emotional learning (sel) an integral part of education from preschool to…

Youth Development
11
Alliance for a Better Community

Advancing social, economic, racial equity and justice for the latino / a community and the los angeles region through power building and policy advocacy.

Community Improvement
12
Los Angeles Urban League

The los angeles urban league (laul) is an independent affiliate of the national urban league. the laul was founded in 1921 to help african americans and others in underserved communities achieve their highest true social parity, economic…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Innercity Struggle; the most unlike its peers is University of Southern California. 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

11 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. 11 of the 65 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEADING EDUCATORS INC: $3,255,546 · EducationLEADING EDUCATORS INCTHE ACHIEVEMENT NETWORK LTD: $1,852,295 · EducationTHE ACHIEVEMENT NETWORK LTD+2 more: $37,400 · EducationPARTNERSHIP NETWORK HIGH SCHOOLS: $840,991 · OtherPARTNERSHIP NETWORK HIGH SCHOOLSLAUSD (ADMINISTRATOR OF MIDDLE SCHOOL INSTRUCTION) DIVISION OF INSTRUCTION: $610,000 · OtherLAUSD (ADMINISTRATOR OF MIDDLE SCHOOL INSTRU…LAUSD LOCAL DISTRICT CENTRAL: $220,000 · OtherLAUSD LOCAL DISTRICT CENTRALLAUSD DIVISION OF INSTRUCTION: $200,000 · OtherLAUSD DIVISION OF INSTRUCTIONIndividual grant recipient: $198,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER ELEMENTARY: $195,778 · OtherFLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER ELEMENTARYTHEODORE ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL: $182,080 · OtherLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $124,483 · Other+46 more: $1,079,408 · Other+46 moreProyecto Pastoral: $129,300 · Human ServicesINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $92,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $123,500 · Community ImprovementLA CLIPPERS FOUNDATION: $57,802 · Recreation & SportsINNER-CITY ARTS: $32,500 · Arts & CultureWATTS CENTURY LATINO ORGANIZATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Education$5,145,241Other$3,650,740Human Services$221,300Community Improvement$123,500Recreation & Sports$57,802Arts & Culture$42,500Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEADING EDUCATORS INC: $3,255,546 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetTHE ACHIEVEMENT NETWORK LTD: $1,852,295 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetProyecto Pastoral: $129,300 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $123,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $92,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLA CLIPPERS FOUNDATION: $57,802 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Parents and Students: $7,400 over 1y, 0.4% 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 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 INNERCITY STRUGGLE ↗
  • Who funds LA CLIPPERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Partnership for Los Angeles Schools funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Partnership for Los Angeles Schools. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Achievement Network Ltd: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 65 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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