California · Nonprofit
Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation
Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,123 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($115,826). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $460k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $262k
- Net assets
- $163k
What Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation does
Mission
The specific purposes for which Better Brothers Los Angeles is organized are: To create, implement and support social and educational programming that educates, informs and strengthens LGBTQ communities of color. To provide programming and support services to LGBTQ communities of color that increase social well-being and psycho-social development while improving the perception and interaction of LGBTQ individuals in their respective ethnic communities. To increase financial and health opportunities through educational efforts that strengthen the stability of LGBTQ communities of color.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Truth Awards is an annual ceremony established in 2015 to promote public awareness and combat prejudice by highlighting the contributions, excellence, courage, and leadership of the Black LGBTQ+ community and its allies. The event serves as a major annual fundraiser, supporting **scholarships** for LGBTQ+ youth enrolled in college and vocational programs. The ceremony averages **500 in-person attendees** and achieves significant national visibility, including an average of **1.5 million social media impressions**. Since 2020, the broadcast has reached an expanded audience via national distribution on the **Fox Soul network and KTLA+ App**, which collectively reach over 44 million subscribers.
$275,536 spent$359,445 earned by the program79% of program spendingHosted an annual fundraising dinner, attended by 100 individuals, to raise funds for the organization's LGBTQ+ youth scholarship program. The event allows supporters to network and contribute to the scholarship fund. A key feature includes testimonials from past scholarship recipients, who share updates on their academic progress and the direct impact of the community's support.
$61,329 spent$60,340 earned by the program18% of program spendingBBLA sponsors quarterly facilitated discussions, engaging expert panelists to provide information on critical community issues. Topics include mental health, public health vaccinations (COVID-19/mpox), voting rights, and family-related social services. These forums provide a space for individuals to share common experiences, reinforcing a sense of community while addressing health and whole-person care. In 2024, BBLA also launched the '2 Shots 1 Love' public awareness campaign. This campaign promoted mpox vaccination to the community through a targeted media strategy that included billboards and social media platforms.
$12,036 spentof which $19,083 as grants$21,089 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $348,901.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $73k to $163k (+124%).
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.
100% of Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $29k → $64k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 50% · 2022 56% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
79% of Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $54k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $208k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation?
- Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,123 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($115,826). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $262,123 in grants to Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $115,826 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Better Brothers Los Angeles Corporation 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing