· Private foundation
The Audre Slater Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $324k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $900k
- $250k+1 grant · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MADISON PROJECT | $260,000 |
| THE INDUSTRY | $110,000 |
| LACO | $105,000 |
| KIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT | $100,000 |
| AMAZING GRACE CONSERVATORY | $100,000 |
| OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL | $100,000 |
| USC KAUFMANN SCHOOL OF DANCE | $85,000 |
| DEAF WEST THEATRE | $50,000 |
| SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| KCRW | $50,000 |
| FERNANDO PULLMUN COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER | $40,000 |
| FOUNTAIN THEARTRE | $35,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $25k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 22 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $745k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MPMADISON PROJECT2× · 2024–2025 · $360k · revenue +38%
- TITHE INDUSTRY PRODUCTIONS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $210k · revenue -41%
- KIKIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT INC2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- RGRUSKIN GROUP THEATERone grant, 2024 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $100k
- SMSANTA MONICA COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $100k
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.
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.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
Camerata Pacifica's mission is to affect positively how people experience live performances of classical music. The Organization will engage our audience intellectually and emotionally by presenting the finest performance of familiar and…
The orchestra pursues its mission, "to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences which exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation," through the blend of traditional…
As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…
To transform the orchestral experience for artists and audiences by building a vibrant community dedicated to the creation and performance of profound, relevant and innovative music
To further the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MADISON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE INDUSTRY PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds OJAI FESTIVALS LTD ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMAZING GRACE CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ELEMENTAL MUSIC ↗
- Who funds URBAN VOICES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP ↗
- Who funds BODY TRAFFIC ↗
- Who funds California Dance Institute ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Verdi Chorus co Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt ↗
- Who funds OJAI PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the Arts · Colburn Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Audre Slater Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Audre Slater Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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