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The Friars Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Aviva Family and Childrens Service | $50,000 |
| PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS) | $30,000 |
| SC LAMP-South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project | $20,000 |
| CHILDRENS BURN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HARMONY PROJECT | $15,000 |
| Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters | $12,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (SOVA) | $10,000 |
| ST FRANCIS CENTER | $10,000 |
| CASA - COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES | $10,000 |
| INNER-CITY ARTS | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| Variety Boys & Girls Club | $7,500 |
| Beverly Hills Police Association | $6,500 |
| OPICA - OPTIMISTIC PEOPLE IN A CARING ATMOSPHERE | $6,000 |
| DEAF WEST THEATRE CO | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $448k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- PPATH9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +361%
- SCSouth Central Los Angeles Ministry Project Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +84%
- HPHarmony Project9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- LLLAMP - Los Angeles Ministry Projectone grant, 2019 · $21k
- TCTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -8%
- WCWestside Center for Independent Livingone grant, 2017 · $8k
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 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 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…
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…
To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.
To prepare students for leadership in the arts and business; where creativity, academic knowledge and financial literacy are essential for success. we are providing an education that integrates the four lenses of learning: academics, arts,…
Los angeles children's chorus provides choral music education of the highest quality to young people who represent richly diverse racial, economic, and cultural brackgrounds.
To perform outstanding classical and modern ballets that set the standard for dancer in los angeles, nationally, and internationally. to passionately pursue innovation and creativity and performance. to change lives through accessible…
To present issues that affect the los angeles community and provide a platform for the discussion of solutions from a nonpartisan point of view.
Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.
See schedule otmc champions the arts in los angeles for all people. tmc connects the people of los angeles with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. tmc embraces patrons, visitors and community members from all…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Para Los Ninos and the most unlike its peers is Inner-City Filmmakers. 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 41 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.
47 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. 47 of the 72 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 CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds Inner-City Filmmakers ↗
- Who funds South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds St Francis Center ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds JEFFREY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends Of L A R C ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hear Center ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Youth Orchestra ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds 24th Street Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LUPUS LA CO EMERGE ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK ↗
- Who funds WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACTOR'S GANG INC ↗
- Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
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 Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Deutsch Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Sempra 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 The Friars Charitable 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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