California · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM
FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,399,724 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ($2,034,724). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $250k
What Foundation for Los Angeles Journalism does
Mission
Promoting education and informed citizenship in greater los angeles by providing civically engaged and factually rigorous journalistic information.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Los angeles public press is a nonprofit journalism publisher serving the residents of los angeles county. It publishes scrupulous and rigorous accountability journalism on housing and homelessness, pollution and environmental justice, policing and justice, immigration, and other subjects relevant to the interests and information needs of la county residents. We publish on web, social media, in print, and other platforms. In 2024-2025, our work was read by hundreds of thousands of la county residents, and was cited in government and legal proceedings.
$1,238,982 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,238,982.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $208k to $256k (+23%).
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 FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $279k → $1.2M.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM’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
FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
97% of FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM: 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 FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM?
- FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,399,724 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ($2,034,724). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $3,399,724 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM?
- INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS is the largest funder on record, with $2,034,724 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 5 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