California · Nonprofit
ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES
ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,800 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($2,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $684k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $665k
What Ethiopian Community Los Angeles does
Mission
MISSION STATEMENTThe Ethiopian Community Los Angeles, ECLA, is an inclusive, nonpolitical, and nonreligious civic organization aiming to address the social, economic, and educational needs of Ethiopian immigrants, and others in similar situations, residing in the Greater Los Angeles area of Southern California. ECLA is committed to promote the history and the cultural heritage of Ethiopia at large.VISION STATEMENTTo see Ethiopians in Los Angeles and its surroundings be fully integrated, united, equally addressed, and benefitted from the socio-economic and educational opportunities available in the country while advancing their culture, history and heritage.SIGNIFICANT ACTIVTIESYouth Program - Promoting youth development through partnership with National Parks and Recreation by offering weekly soccer skills, practice, STEM subjects tutoring, mentoring, and hosting cultural events. The Organization offers one on one tutoring and provides zoom accounts and laptops to instructors as needed
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth Program - Promoting youth development through partnership with National Parks and Recreation by offering weekly soccer skills, practice, STEM subjects tutoring, mentoring, and hosting cultural events. The Organization offers one on one tutoring and provides zoom accounts and laptops to instructors as needed.Family Services: Providing bilingual resource center through collaboration with a local senior center to break down language barriers; provide service to immigrant families to access resources; help with document translations, applications, transportation issues, and the elderly break social isolation. Offering pro-bono bilingual legal servicesExpert Panel Live Streams: Broadcasting various timely live panels based on community needs. Some examples are financial literacy, substance abuse, depression, mental awareness, and childhood diseases. Investing in website and technology training for staff.
$42,103 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $42,103.
The organization over time
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Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $46k to $665k (+1332%).
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.
97% of ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Messeret Yilma
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY 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. 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
ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY 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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES: 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 ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES?
- ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,800 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($2,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,800 in grants to ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES?
- CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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