· Public charity
Rotary Club of Los Angeles Foundation
To advance humanitarian service through the improvement of health, the support of education and the alleviation of poverty.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $74,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $663,211 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $589,211 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Better Youth Inc | $20,000 |
| LAFD Foundation | $14,000 |
| Biddy Mason Foundation | $10,000 |
| Dept of Children and Family Voca Scholarship | $10,000 |
| Peace4Kids | $10,000 |
| CASA of Los Angeles | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Rotary Club of Los Angeles Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- LALOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +28%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS2× · 2022–2023 · $75k · revenue +71%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- FFFACE FORWARD INC DBA FACE FORWARD INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $28k · revenue -39%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY PASADENA RESIDENCES INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +3%
- LALos Angeles Youth Networkone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue -16%
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.
The Workforce Development Board promotes workforce development activitieswhich connect Los Angeles jobseekers and youth to training, workforce preparedness and employment opportunities. Facilitates placing youth into private,public &…
Youth policy institute (ypi) transforms los angeles neighborhoods, reducing poverty by offering cradle to college & career services.
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…
Friends of the children commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…
To improve the lives of young people in greater los angeles by creating impactful programs that will help them pursue their dreams while building fundamental life skills.
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
Transform local communities into places that are fair and flourishing for everyone through education, community organization, and coalition-building.
The organization is committed to "initiating and supporting signs of hope for the city of los angeles" by empowering people, achieving social justice and economic development and promoting the well being of communities as envisioned by…
The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Friends of the Children and the most unlike its peers is Better Youth Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 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 — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 32 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 LOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FACE FORWARD INC DBA FACE FORWARD INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY PASADENA RESIDENCES INC ↗
- Who funds Better Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Youth Network ↗
- Who funds JOVENES INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTL DISTRICT 5280 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS ↗
- Who funds Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDES ↗
- Who funds ABILITYFIRST ↗
- Who funds PEACE 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds FOSTER THE LOVE LOUISIANAINC ↗
- Who funds BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST 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: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · 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 organization Rotary Club of Los Angeles Foundation 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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