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Rotary Club of Los Angeles Foundation

To advance humanitarian service through the improvement of health, the support of education and the alleviation of poverty.

$663k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$141kInternational$133kCommunity Improvement$100kEducation$80kCrime & Legal$75kHealth$68kHousing & Shelter$52kHuman Services$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $74,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $663,211 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $589,211 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Better Youth Inc$20,000
LAFD Foundation$14,000
Peace4Kids$10,000
Dept of Children and Family Voca Scholarship$10,000
Biddy Mason Foundation$10,000
CASA of Los Angeles$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Foster the Love: $10k → 17%Peace4Kids: $10k → 14%JOVENES: $17k → 14%HILLSIDES HOMES FOR KIDS: $11k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $11k → 14%Ability First: $10k → 14%Braille Institute: $10k → 14%LOS ANGELES YOUTH NETWORK: $18k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Rotary Club of Los Angeles Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 82%.

Rotary Club of Los Angeles Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$400k · 8 repeat orgs$311k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
18

Total granted

$400k
$247k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+15%

Still filing today

63%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentEmploymentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +28%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $75k · revenue +60%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • FF
    FACE FORWARD INC DBA FACE FORWARD INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $28k · revenue -39%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY PASADENA RESIDENCES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +3%
  • LA
    Los Angeles Youth Network
    one grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue -16%
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
Allies for Every Child Inc

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)

Human Services
2
The City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board

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 &…

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3
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
4
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
5
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
6
Fotc - Los Angeles

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…

Education
7
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
8
Wayfinder Family Services

The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…

Human Services
9
Los Angeles City College Foundation

We are committed to breaking the cycle of poverty and creating programs that drive change. by addressing students' basic needs, including food, housing, utilities, transportation, and healthcare, we enable low-income students to enroll,…

Education
10
Youth Policy Institute Inc

Youth policy institute (ypi) transforms los angeles neighborhoods, reducing poverty by offering cradle to college & career services.

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11
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
12
Los Angeles Urban Foudation

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Friends of the Children; the most unlike its peers is Southwest Community College Foundation Dbala Southwest College Foundation. 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE: $100,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUEA PLACE CALLED HOME: $79,594 · OtherA PLACE CALLED HOMEALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $75,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTSCONNEXTION GROUP INC: $40,000 · OtherCONNEXTION GROUP INCDCFS OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS: $30,000 · OtherDCFS OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRSDept of Children and Family Voca Scholarship: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,900 · OtherAcceler8: $15,000 · Other+5 more: $59,698 · Other+5 moreLos Angeles Youth Network: $18,243 · Human ServicesLos Angeles Yo…JOVENES INC: $17,092 · Human ServicesJOVENES INCUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $10,946 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS…HILLSIDES: $10,690 · Human ServicesHILLSIDESBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBRAILLE INSTIT…FOSTER THE LOVE LOUISIANAINC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER THE LOV…ABILITYFIRST: $10,000 · Human ServicesABILITYFIRSTPEACE 4 KIDS: $10,000 · Human ServicesPEACE 4 KIDSRAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationRAZIAS RAY …ROTARY INTL DISTRICT 5280 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15,450 · EducationROTARY INTL…Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation: $12,000 · EducationSouthwest C…SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $9,288 · EducationSCHOOL ON W…WEST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $9,000 · EducationWEST LOS AN…THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $72,400 · InternationalTHE ROTARY…FACE FORWARD INC DBA FACE FORWARD INTERNATIONAL: $27,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · HealthBetter Youth Inc: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SALVATION ARMY PASADENA RESIDENCES INC: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$435,192Human Services$96,971Education$80,738International$72,400Health$47,500Youth Development$30,000Housing & Shelter$20,000

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 budgetLOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE: $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $79,594 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $72,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetFACE FORWARD INC DBA FACE FORWARD INTERNATIONAL: $27,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY PASADENA RESIDENCES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOVENES INC: $17,092 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROTARY INTL DISTRICT 5280 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15,450 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $13,536 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS: $12,162 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $10,946 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHILLSIDES: $10,690 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTER THE LOVE LOUISIANAINC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetABILITYFIRST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEACE 4 KIDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWEST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Green FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…Weingart FoundationConrad N Hilton Found…Shelter Partnership I…Elbridge Stuart Found…Liberty Hill Foundati…The California Wellne…
California Community FoundationCA22.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rotary Club of Los Angeles Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary Club of Los Angeles Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Rotary Club of Los Angeles Foundation 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 32 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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