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The Friars Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
INNER-CITY ARTS$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (SOVA)$10,000
ST FRANCIS CENTER$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$10,000
CASA - COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES$10,000
Variety Boys & Girls Club$7,500
Beverly Hills Police Association$6,500
OPICA - OPTIMISTIC PEOPLE IN A CARING ATMOSPHERE$6,000
FRIENDS OF LARC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
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.

04Its field

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.

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
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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Para Los Ninos; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 72 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTorrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARE4Paws Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY VILLAGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIAVOLO DANCE THEATRE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeverly Hills Womens Club: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLA'S BEST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ECHO ↗

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.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Rose Hills Founda…The Green FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Perenchio FoundationWeingart FoundationThe Deutsch FoundationS Mark Taper Foundati…Elbridge Stuart Found…Sempra Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Friars Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Friars Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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