How much did The Friars Charitable Foundation grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of The Friars Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

beverly hills

2020

beverly hills

2021

beverly hillsyouth

2022

youth

2023

beverly hills

2024

brothers sistersbeverly hillschildrens

2025

brothers sistersyouthbeverly hillschildrens

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 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

States reached

$4.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
ST FRANCIS CENTER$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (SOVA)$10,000
INNER-CITY ARTS$10,000
CASA - COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES$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
LOS ANGELES YOUTH ORCHESTRA$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $239k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.1M · 54 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

54 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+36%

Still filing today

56%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther

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

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PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS)
8× · 2018–2025 · $170k · revenue +280%
HP
HARMONY PROJECT
8× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +22%
SF
ST FRANCIS CENTER
8× · 2018–2025 · $81k · revenue +47%

Funded once

LL
LAMP - Los Angeles Ministry Project
one grant, 2019 · $21k
LS
LAMP - South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project
one grant, 2018 · $20k
TC
Tower Cancer Research Foundation
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +22%

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.

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 backgrounds.

Arts & Culture

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences

Arts & Culture

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

Los Angeles Opera Company

See part iii and schedule othe los angeles opera company (la opera) is a non-profit entity organized to provide an opportunity for all to enjoy the rich emotional and cultural experience of opera.

Arts & Culture

Artsup La

Our mission is to use theatre to enhance self-esteem, encourage self-expression and empower individuals to overcome the challenges in their lives.

Arts & Culture

Los Angeles Youth Symphony Orchestra

Our mission is to provide youth orchestra and music education programs to young generations and to inspire them to enjoy the performing arts for life.

Arts & Culture

Los Angeles Ballet Inc

To perform outstanding classical and modern ballets that set the standard for dance in los angeles.

Arts & Culture

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association

Los angeles master chorale is an independent and innovative professional vocal ensemble that shares the traditional and evolving spectrum of choral music with the widest possible audience. we advance this art through performance, community…

Arts & Culture

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. we serve as the only cross-discipline, cross-sector convenor for the arts and culture…

Arts & Culture

La Contemporary Dance

LACDC is a performance company dedicated to showcasing the artistry of L.A. in live and digital experiences. We curate creative environments that harness the power of the collective promote a sense of belonging and champion exploration and…

Arts & Culture

Los Angeles Black Worker Center

The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.

Employment

Los Angeles Center of Photography

Los Angeles Center of Photography promotes photography through its educational programs, exhibits, and other creative opportunties and venues.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Music and Art School and the most unlike its peers is Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/37

the rest of the field

13%

6,641/49,779

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.

05the grantee network

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/36

Grantees still filing

25/36

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,372,350Human Services$233,750Education$162,500Arts & Culture$154,500Youth Development$97,500Health$80,500Civil Rights$60,000Animals$2,500

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.

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 FoundationCA36.2× affinity18 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 Annenberg Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Nancy E Barton Foundation · Audrey & Sydney Irmas · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Lori

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 organisation 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PROJECT ECHO.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 954580212 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PROJECT ECHO, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Friars Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Friars Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Friars Charitable Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Friars Charitable Foundation?

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The Friars Charitable Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Friars Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph