California · Nonprofit
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,970,242 to it, the largest being SAM SIMON CHARITABLE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($397,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $69M
What Assistance League of Los Angeles does
Mission
The mission of assistance league (r) of los angeles since 1919 is to improve the quality of life for at-risk children in the los angeles community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation school bell (osb) provides extremely impoverished k-5th grade schoolchildren with new clothing and supplies. Children from disadvantaged families, those experiencing homelessness or in foster care, have improved school attendance, classroom behavior, self-esteem, and levels of engagement with their peers and school activities when they do not "wear" their poverty. Thanks to osb, this year, 8,499 children were given new clothing, shoes, socks, undergarments, hoodies, personal grooming kits, backpacks, school supplies, books, and a toy at the league's hollywood office or via our mobile facility, operation school bell on wheels, that delivers the program at school sites across los angeles. The online ordering system, developed during the pandemic, prepares individualized backpacks of items to be picked up at the hollywood office by school counselors and then delivered directly to the children at school. Theatre for children is the longest-running children's theatre in los angeles, bringing the joy of live musical theatre to 11,000 underserved and handicapped children this year. The productions are offered free to children from title I lausd schools along with free bus…
$6,216,636 spentof which $1,536,001 as grants$50,538 earned by the program80% of program spendingCourt referred volunteer center (crvc) program operates as a social enterprise generating revenue to help support the league's programs for children. The crvc program is in seven courthouses throughout los angeles county. The program refers clients to various nonprofit agencies throughout los angeles county to fulfill their court-mandated community service requirements. During the year ended june 30, 2025, crvc connected more than 8,200 agelenos to community service opportunities representing more than 547,000 volunteer hours.
$1,529,429 spent$1,236,454 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,746,065.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $25M to $62M (+150%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 2% · 2019 13% · 2020 4% · 2021 11% · 2022 23% · 2023 18% · 2024 24% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $114k → $586k.
11 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $23M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of the League Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES raised.
From the IRS filings of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
49% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 20% · 2019 29% · 2020 19% · 2021 32% · 2022 18% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $759k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 30 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of the League Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES?
- ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,970,242 to it, the largest being SAM SIMON CHARITABLE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($397,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $2,970,242 in grants to ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES?
- SAM SIMON CHARITABLE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $397,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 68 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing