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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.

$281k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$660kHuman Services$530kHealth$297kYouth Development$216kHousing & Shelter$190kEmployment$155kEducation$132kFood & Nutrition$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

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
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

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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.

area typical 12%Para Los Nios: $3k → 14%Para Los Nios: $3k → 14%Para Los Nios: $3k → 14%Para Los Nios: $3k → 14%Para Los Nios: $3k → 14%Para Los Nios: $450 → 14%Para Los Nios: $450 → 14%Para Los Nios: $450 → 14%Para Los Nios: $365 → 14%Valley Village: $2k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $30k → 14%THE JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $20k → 14%THE JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $20k → 14%THE JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $20k → 14%THE JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $20k → 14%THE JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $20k → 14%THE JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $20k → 14%THE JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $20k → 14%THE JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $20k → 14%Eastmont Community Center: $3k → 14%Eastmont Community Center: $450 → 14%Eastmont Community Center: $450 → 14%Eastmont Community Center: $450 → 14%Eastmont Community Center: $450 → 14%SC LAMP-South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project: $20k → 14%SC LAMP-South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project: $20k → 14%LAMP - South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project: $20k → 14%Arts & Services for Disabled: $5k → 14%SC LAMP-South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project: $20k → 14%Arts & Services for Disabled: $5k → 14%LAMP - South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project: $20k → 14%Able Arts Work: $4k → 14%SC LAMP-South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project: $19k → 14%Able Arts Work: $3k → 14%SC LAMP-South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project: $16k → 14%Beverly Hills Women's Club: $1k → 14%SC LAMP-South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project: $16k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 52 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
15

Total granted

$2.3M
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+29%

Still filing today

67%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther

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

  • P
    PATH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +361%
  • SC
    South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +84%
  • HP
    Harmony Project
    9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • LL
    LAMP - Los Angeles Ministry Project
    one grant, 2019 · $21k
  • TC
    TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -8%
  • WC
    Westside Center for Independent Living
    one grant, 2017 · $8k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Latino Theater Company

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Los Angeles Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
3
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
5
Long Beach Community Players Inc

To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.

Arts & Culture
6
Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise

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,…

Education
7
Los Angeles Children's Chorus

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.

Arts & Culture
8
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
9
Los Angeles Ballet Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Town Hall Los Angeles

To present issues that affect the los angeles community and provide a platform for the discussion of solutions from a nonpartisan point of view.

11
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
12
Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County

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…

Arts & Culture

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%37%20–35yr10%28%35–55yr12%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr10%30%35–55yr12%35%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
16%
7,867/49,768

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
32/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Aviva Family and Childrens Service — $145,000 · OtherAviva Family and Childrens ServiceCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION — $127,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATIONJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (SOVA) — $115,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (SOVA)St Francis Center — $91,000 · OtherSt Francis CenterVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $58,000 · OtherVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBBeit T'Shuvah — $57,500 · OtherBeit T'ShuvahOPICA - OPTIMISTIC PEOPLE IN A CARING ATMOSPHERE — $53,000 · OtherDEAF WEST THEATRE CO — $45,450 · OtherFriends Of L A R C — $45,000 · OtherCASA OF LOS ANGELES — $65,000 · OtherCASA OF LOS ANGELES+29 more — $271,470 · Other+29 morePATH — $190,000 · Human ServicesPATHSouth Central Los Angeles Ministry Project Inc — $150,500 · Human ServicesSouth Central Los An…JEFFREY FOUNDATION — $64,900 · Human ServicesJEFFREY FOUNDATIONARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK — $16,500 · Human Services+4 more — $21,015 · Human ServicesCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $218,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER THEATRE GRO…YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION — $37,500 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MUSICIANS FO…Los Angeles Youth Orchestra — $27,500 · Arts & CultureLos Angeles Youth …24th Street Theatre Company — $20,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION — $18,500 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTS — $17,500 · Arts & CultureWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $16,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION — $16,000 · Arts & CultureACTOR'S GANG INC — $14,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $24,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreHarmony Project — $135,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION — $46,000 · EducationPROJECT ECHO — $12,500 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationInner-City Filmmakers — $155,000 · EmploymentJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHERIFFS YOUTH FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentHear Center — $35,000 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $23,500 · HealthLUPUS LA CO EMERGE — $18,000 · HealthTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Health+2 more — $4,000 · Health
Other$1,073,920Human Services$442,915Arts & Culture$409,500Education$194,500Employment$155,000Youth Development$107,500Health$90,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $218,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPATH — $190,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetInner-City Filmmakers — $155,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetSouth Central Los Angeles Ministry Project Inc — $150,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetHarmony Project — $135,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION — $127,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES — $100,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSt Francis Center — $91,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES — $65,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJEFFREY FOUNDATION — $64,900 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $58,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah — $57,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $46,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFriends Of L A R C — $45,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetYOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION — $37,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHear Center — $35,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetLos Angeles Youth Orchestra — $27,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC — $25,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $23,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budget24th Street Theatre Company — $20,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL — $18,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION — $18,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLUPUS LA CO EMERGE — $18,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS — $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK — $16,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetACTOR'S GANG INC — $14,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS — $14,215 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ECHO — $12,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTHE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY — $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS — $10,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHERIFFS YOUTH FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS FIREMENS ASSOCIATION — $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF EXPO CENTER — $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNTAIN THEATRE — $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEastmont Community Center — $4,300 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCARE4Paws Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTorrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY VILLAGE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIAVOLO DANCE THEATRE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA'S BEST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeverly Hills Womens Club — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

California Community FoundationCA34.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Friars Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Friars Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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