· Public charity
The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation
Founded in 1995 as the official charity of the los angeles dodgers, THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION (the foundation) is bigger than baseball, envisioning a city where everyone, regardless of zip code, has the opportunity to thrive.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| COUNTY OF LA DEPT OF PARKS AND RECREATION S COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENC | $135,360 |
| BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE | $122,000 |
| SCIENCE OF SPORT | $110,000 |
| LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES | $100,000 |
| CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS | $98,508 |
| READING TO THE RESCUE | $65,625 |
| KERSHAWS CHALLENGE | $65,000 |
| CITY OF LONG BEACH DEPARTMENT OF PARKS RECREATION & MARINE | $63,240 |
| MLB BASEBALL ASSISTANCE TEAM | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY | $44,544 |
| MLB YOUTH ACADEMY | $41,400 |
| CITY OF LYNWOOD RECREATION & COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT | $41,310 |
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 (FY17–24, $695k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $505k 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
- CSCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +62%
- UIUP2US INC2× · 2019–2022 · $725k · revenue +3%
- LALOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC6× · 2018–2024 · $549k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- TPTHE PLAY EQUITY FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +70%
- CFCENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORTone grant, 2022 · $127k · revenue -16%
- BBABY2BABYone grant, 2021 · $110k
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.
To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.
To make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. legacy la builds the capacity of youth to reach their full potential and equips them with tools to transform their lives and…
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…
Los Angeles Team Mentorings (LATM) mission is to guide middle school students growing up in challenging urban environments to recognize and reach their full potential. See Schedule O for more details.
Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.
To ensure student success by building authentic partnerships between families, educators, and system leaders, and through parent-led advocacy.
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
College match partners with high schools in los angeles county to identify high-achieving, low-income high school students and provide them with the necessary tools and guidance to get into top-ranked colleges with significant financial…
The archer school for girls is an educational community that supports and challenges young women to discover their passions and realize their true potential by a) providing a rigorous, integrated college preparatory curriculum that fosters…
The organization is committed to "initiating and supporting signs of hope for the city of los angeles" by empowering people, achieving social justice and economic development and promoting the well being of communities as envisioned by…
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Para Los Ninos and the most unlike its peers is Mlb-Mlbpa Youth Development Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
171 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 171 of the 200 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 CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UP2US INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE PLAY EQUITY FUND ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE OF SPORT ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds THE KENLEY JANSEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA84 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds INGLEWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds JUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT ↗
- Who funds THINK TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Hollywood Indies Little League co Stanley M Brooks ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON ↗
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: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · The Play Equity Fund · La84 Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · Liberty Hill 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 Los Angeles Dodgers 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.
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.