California · Public charity
The Play Equity Fund
Bringing the transformational power of sport and play to all children, regardless of their race, gender, zip code or socio-economic status.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $110,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 82
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations The Play Equity Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $1.2M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $312k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $2.8M | 76% |
| FY2021 | 82 | $1.9M | 98% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $120k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $175k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Street Soccer USA Inc | $375,800 | 4 | 11% |
| Playworks Education Energized | $361,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Project Blue Corps | $320,200 | 3 | 32% |
| Inglewood Unified School District | $305,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Woodcraft Rangers | $235,200 | 3 | 1% |
| Inner City Education Foundation | $228,448 | 3 | 0% |
| Hollenbeck Police Activities League | $225,355 | 3 | 16% |
| BOSS Inc | $167,500 | 3 | 18% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles | $160,920 | 3 | 0% |
| Sloane Stephens Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 139 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
The Play Equity Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 126 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · La84 Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · United Way Inc · The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation
How this is measured
About The Play Equity Fund
- How much does The Play Equity Fund give?
- The Play Equity Fund reported 28 grants totaling $1,157,499 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 82 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Play Equity Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (36%), Recreation & Sports (24%), Education (18%).
- Who are The Play Equity Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Street Soccer USA Inc ($376k), Playworks Education Energized ($361k), Project Blue Corps ($320k).
- Does The Play Equity Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Play Equity Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, Weingart Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation.
- Where is The Play Equity Fund based?
- The Play Equity Fund is based in CA.
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