· Public charity
Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges
To support the success of the students, programs, and colleges of the los angeles community college district and to advance access to postsecondary education and training in the greater los angeles region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $927,919 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,609,329 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $681,410 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $363k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLENDALE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| PASADENA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| LACCD | $112,919 |
| LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EAST LA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| WEST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your 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.
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 foundation's specific and primary purposes are to promote the general welfare of long beach city college by assisting and supporting the attainment of educational, athletic, and cultural goals; by assisting it in fulfilling its role of…
The Foundation for the Seattle Colleges exists to advance fundraising efforts for the Seattle Community College District. We seek to attract financial resources which support students so they may be successful; maintain the quality and…
Southwestern College Foundation is dedicated to raising friends and funds that support all aspects of educational advancement at Southwestern College.
To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…
Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.
Laguna college of art & design prepares individuals for careers as creative artists and designers in a culturally and ethnically diverse world through a curriculum that emphasizes acquiring skills based on observation, representation, and…
Lake land college foundation was established to assist lake land college in developing and enhancing the education opportunities and services to its students, alumni, and citizens of the district. the mission of the foundation is to…
To develop resources and relationships that provide financial support to los medanos college students through student scholarships, student programs and services, instructional supplies, and facility improvements.
The Rio Hondo College Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides financial assistance for scholarships and programs which meet the needs of Rio Hondo College's students.
To support and promote for the use and benefit of Laredo College and literary, scientific, education or cultural undertakings.
The mission of the Coastline Community College Foundation is to support students through scholarships, endowment, and other financial programs to expand the capacity to meet the diverse needs of Coastline students and the community.
The palomar college foundation, with the support of the community, secures supplemental funding, other resources, and provides program support for the benefit of palomar community college and its students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles City College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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 Glendale College Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds Pasadena City College Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Foundation for California Community Colleges · California Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · John Burton Advocates for Youth · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges 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.