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The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles

THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES is currently developing and supporting programs to help prevent angelenos from falling into homelessness and experiencing housing insecurity through outreach, case management, and expansion of legal services.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$935k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Youth Development$8.7MHousing & Shelter$3.1MHealth$2.2MHuman Services$2.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.9MCrime & Legal$1.9MCommunity Improvement$1.8MEducation$1.7MOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $325k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
$125,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVICTION DEFENSE NETWORK$935,000
ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING$743,825
ST JOHNS WELLNESS CENTER$500,000
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER$200,000
RIGHTWAY FOUNDATION$125,000
CHIRLA$37,000
LA VOICE$32,860
WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES$27,052
BETTER ANGELS$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CARINA: $24k → 9%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $26k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $16k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $9k → 14%1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $12k → 14%1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $8k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTH CARE LOS ANGELES: $60k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $8k → 14%BETTER ANGELS: $25k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $262k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $204k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $44k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $33k → 14%WATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $10k → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $188k → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $99k → 14%BRYANT TEMPLE AME CHURCH: $19k → 14%RAINBOW SERVICES LTD: $75k → 14%RAINBOW SERVICES LTD: $42k → 14%ILM FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%TOBERMAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $10k → 14%EL CENTRO DEL PUEBLO: $10k → 14%MY FRIEND'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $55k → 14%MY FRIEND'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS: $25k → 14%CHILD CARE ALLIANCE OF LOS ANGELES: $200k → 14%ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%MY FRIEND'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $8k → 14%YWCA: $505k → 14%THE LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION ON AGING: $50k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S COLLECTIVE INC: $10k → 14%YWCA: $8k → 14%FREEFROM: $25k → 14%CENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS: $10k → 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 36 repeat orgs$8.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
93

Total granted

$19M
$7.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+38%

Still filing today

86%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $710k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • EC
    ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +16%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES
    4× · 2018–2023 · $1.0M · revenue ×16 · 73% of their budget
  • O
    ONEGENERATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $559k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF LOS ANGELES BUREAU OF ENGINEERING
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
  • CO
    CITY OF LOS ANGELES - ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $747k
  • DC
    DIGNITY COMMUNITY CAREgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $675k · revenue +36%
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
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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2
Latino Business Chamber of Greater La Foundation Inc

To facilitate economic structures and policy initiatives that empower Latino business development and foster economic growth across Los Angeles.

Human Services
3
Community Development Technologies Center

To build livable and economically viable communities in the low income areas of This is accomplished by Greater Los Angeles strengthening the skils and self-sufficiency of residents, businesses of residents, businesses and community…

Community Improvement
4
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
5
Instituto De Educacion Popular Del Sur De California

strengthening the leadership and workforce skills of Day Laborers and Domestic Workers. through 5 Day Labor Centers, Workers Health Program & Mujeres en Accion using Education & outreach empowerment tools

Unclassified
6
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
7
Los Angeles Business Council Formerly Known As West La Chamber of Commerce

The los angeles business council, labc, serves the los angeles community by providing public education, awareness to community issues, advocacy of sustainable development, workforce housing and business development.

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8
Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County

The function of the corporation shall be to ease the burdens of government by assisting, implementing, supporting and/or contributing to the support of programs, projects and activities of a public nature. which are directed toward…

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9
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

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.

Employment
10
Central City Association of Los Angeles

Devoted to promoting the economic health and quality of life in la, particularly downtown los angeles. cca provides business advocacy in sharing public policy on a broad range of issues before the citycouncil, the county board of…

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11
League of Women Voters of Los Angeles

The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…

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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 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

120 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. 120 of the 138 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/120
Grantees still filing
90/120
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GRYD FOUNDATION: $7,822,487 · Youth DevelopmentTHE GRYD FOUNDATION+4 more: $312,146 · Youth DevelopmentCITY OF LOS ANGELES BUREAU OF ENGINEERING: $1,000,000 · OtherCITY OF LOS ANGELES BUREAU OF ENGINEERINGCITY OF LOS ANGELES: $779,253 · OtherCITY OF LOS ANGELESCITY OF LOS ANGELES - ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT: $746,544 · OtherCITY OF LOS ANGELES - ECONOMIC AND WORKFOR…CITY OF LOS ANGELES MAYORS OFFICE OF BUDGET & INNOVATION: $597,031 · OtherCITY OF LOS ANGELES MAYORS OFFICE OF BUDGE…ONEGENERATION: $558,899 · OtherONEGENERATIONCITY OF LOS ANGELES EWDD: $490,000 · OtherCITY OF LOS ANGELES MOBI: $488,359 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $450,000 · OtherCITY OF LOS ANGELES BOE: $425,000 · OtherHaven Hills Inc: $408,254 · OtherST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH: $500,000 · OtherSocial Impact Fund: $443,351 · Other+66 more: $3,573,880 · Other+66 morePARA LOS NINOS: $542,939 · Human ServicesPARA LOS …YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $513,333 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOM…Jenesse Center Inc: $286,454 · Human ServicesJenesse C…CHILD CARE ALLIANCE OF LOS ANGELES: $200,000 · Human ServicesCHILD CAR…RAINBOW SERVICES: $117,148 · Human ServicesMY FRIENDS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $105,000 · Human Services+21 more: $433,218 · Human Services+21 moreESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $1,849,187 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY INC: $72,402 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $32,000 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $1,008,085 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $300,000 · EducationEXPANDED LEARNING ALLIANCE: $295,460 · EducationLA'S BEST: $132,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · Education+5 more: $79,893 · EducationEVICTION DEFENSE NETWORK: $1,360,000 · Crime & LegalCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $163,464 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $10,000 · Crime & LegalDIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE: $675,000 · HealthWhite Memorial Med Cntr Charitable Fdtn Adventist Health White Memorial Ch Fdtn: $175,000 · HealthEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $173,150 · HealthPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $125,000 · HealthGlendale Adventist Medical Center Fdtn Adventist Health Glendale Foundation: $125,000 · HealthSOCIAL MODEL RECOVERY SYSTEMS INC: $70,000 · Health+5 more: $96,508 · Health
Youth Development$8,134,633Other$10,460,571Human Services$2,198,092Housing & Shelter$1,953,589Education$1,890,438Crime & Legal$1,533,464Health$1,439,658

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GRYD FOUNDATION: $7,822,487 over 5y, 85% of budgetESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $1,849,187 over 3y, 13% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $1,008,085 over 4y, 73% of budgetDIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE: $675,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONEGENERATION: $558,899 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $542,939 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $513,333 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSocial Impact Fund: $443,351 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHaven Hills Inc: $408,254 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $335,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEXPANDED LEARNING ALLIANCE: $295,460 over 1y, 17% of budgetJenesse Center Inc: $286,454 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $236,313 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD CARE ALLIANCE OF LOS ANGELES: $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWhite Memorial Med Cntr Charitable Fdtn Adventist Health White Memorial Ch Fdtn: $175,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $173,150 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $163,464 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHOME AT LAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $159,669 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC ASIAN CONSORTIUM IN EMPLOYMENT: $140,464 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR: $139,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLA'S BEST: $132,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rightway Foundation: $125,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGlendale Adventist Medical Center Fdtn Adventist Health Glendale Foundation: $125,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSU CASA - ENDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $124,200 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetRAINBOW SERVICES: $117,148 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMY FRIENDS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetURBAN ALCHEMY: $105,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEACE OVER VIOLENCE: $92,308 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINITIATING CHANGE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $84,375 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION: $83,050 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $81,120 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY INC: $72,402 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSOCIAL MODEL RECOVERY SYSTEMS INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $62,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomeless Health Care Los Angeles: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $52,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $51,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT-SLAUSON LDC INC: $50,521 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $50,023 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES FOUNDATION ON AGING: $50,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetCALIFORNIA GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetUNITE-LA INC: $41,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 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.

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.

The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …Weingart FoundationUnited Way IncThe Annenberg Foundat…The Rose Hills Founda…Shelter Partnership I…The California Endowm…Baby2babyKaiser Foundation Hos…The Ahmanson Foundati…The California Wellne…
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA87.4× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · United Way Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · The California Endowment · Baby2baby · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Ahmanson Foundation · The California Wellness 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 Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 138 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 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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