· Private foundation
Zolla Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $212k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| DETERMINED TO SUCCEED (DTS) | $80,000 |
| DETERMINED TO SUCCEED (DTS) | $79,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES (PPLA) | $50,000 |
| LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION (LAPHILAR) | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,500 |
| ONE VOICE (ONEVOICE) | $29,500 |
| MARINES CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (MARINES) | $20,000 |
| AIRPORT MARINA COUNSELING SERVICE (AMCS) | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| HAPPY TRAILS FOR KIDS (HAPPY) | $18,000 |
| ONE VOICE (ONEVOICE) | $10,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT (LAFD) | $10,000 |
| LA OPERA (LAOPERA) | $10,000 |
| COALITION FOR CLEAN AIR (COALITION) | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +172%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES5× · 2021–2025 · $87k · revenue +29%- PCPALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- VRVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +35%
- JSJVS SOCALgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +49%
SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -3%
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.
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.
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
We transform schools to revolutionize school systems, empowering all students with a high-quality education. the partnership's goals are to 1) dramatically accelerate achievement for students in the district's highest need and historically…
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…
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…
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…
The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…
Vistamar school empowers students, preparing them to contribute and excel in higher education and in life, and commits to: a broad and balanced program that challenges and engages students, building their individual skills and inspiring a…
The waverly school is a nonsectarian, coeducational, college preparatory progressive day school that spans preschool through high school. it is fully accredited by the western association of school and colleges and the california…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 One Voice ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AIRPORT MARINA COUNSELING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation ↗
- Who funds JVS SOCAL ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zolla Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zolla Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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