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Unite-La Inc

UNITE-LA's mission is to advance equitable, economic mobility and well-being through collaboration that strengthens systems, policies and high-quality education and career pathways.

$714k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$184k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$332kCommunity Improvement$184kPhilanthropy$103kYouth Development$68kEmployment$25k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $349,249, the rows itemized in this filing. The $713,730 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $364,481 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$183,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF LA COUNTY$183,500
Columbia University$165,749
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 (FY21–22, $68k) 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%ST ANNE'S: $35k → 14%ST ANNE'S: $33k → 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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$158k · 4 repeat orgs$381k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +155% since the first grant, against +110% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$158k
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+155%
+110%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’24
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesEmploymentOther
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

  • SA
    St Anne's Family Services
    2× · 2021–2022 · $68k · revenue +85%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES MISSION COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +155%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR PIERCE COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue ×53 · 78% of their budget

Funded once

  • LO
    LA-TECH ORGgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $103k · revenue +110%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNINGgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +166%
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
3
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
4
Los Angeles City College Foundation

We are committed to breaking the cycle of poverty and creating programs that drive change. by addressing students' basic needs, including food, housing, utilities, transportation, and healthcare, we enable low-income students to enroll,…

Education
5
Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges

To support the success of the students, programs, and colleges of the los angeles community college district and to advance access to postsecondary education and training in the greater los angeles region.

Education
6
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
7
Lafayette College

Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…

Education
8
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
9
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education
10
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
11
College Match

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…

Education
12
Long Beach City College Foundation

The foundation's specific and primary purposes are to promote the general welfare of long beach city college by assisting and supporting the attainment of educational, athletic, and cultural goals; by assisting it in fulfilling its role of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Mission College Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Pierce College. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $183,500 · OtherECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTYLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $40,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTLOS ANGELES MISSION COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES MISSION COLLEGE FOUNDATIONTHE FOUNDATION FOR PIERCE COLLEGE: $30,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FOR PIERCE COLLEGETHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $30,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONLA TRADE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $22,500 · OtherLA TRADE TECHNICAL COLLEGE+1 more: $7,500 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $172,289 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UN…LA-TECH ORG: $102,500 · PhilanthropyLA-TECH ORGSt Anne's Family Services: $68,361 · Human ServicesSt Anne's …CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING: $25,000 · Employment
Other$343,500Education$172,289Philanthropy$102,500Human Services$68,361Employment$25,000

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 budgetECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $183,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $172,289 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA-TECH ORG: $102,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetSt Anne's Family Services: $68,361 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR PIERCE COLLEGE: $30,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

California Community …Foundation for Califo…Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Foundation for California Community Colleges · Amazonsmile 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 Unite-La Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Unite-La Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    3report 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.

    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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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