California · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES
FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,371,435 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($3,500,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges does
Mission
To support the success of the students, programs, and colleges of the los angeles community college district and to advance access to postsecondary education and training in the greater los angeles region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
New and significant programs launched during the 2024-2025 fiscal year included the la strong: disaster response fund to support community college students and educators impacted by the january 2025 fires in los angeles and the boost program to provide one year of financial assistance to students in health-related career pathways.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Boost pilot program - launched a new program to provide one year of monthly $1,000 unrestricted payments to 251 community college students pursing health-related careers, and to engage a research team to study the impacts of this program through a mixed-methods randomized control trial.
$3,012,000 spent39% of program spendingScholarships and direct aid - total of $2,648,364 was issued during the 2024-2025 fiscal year to community college students to support their success through the foundation and its partners.
$2,648,364 spentof which $1,603,329 as grants34% of program spendingUrgent support - provided $1,172,000 in direct aid, including emergency grants, hardship grants, and disaster response grants, all to support education persistence and success in the face of unexpected challenges and disruptions.
$1,172,000 spent15% of program spendingProviding overall support and serving the los angeles community college district (the district). Promoting the district, receiving property and gifts for the benefit of the district, establishment of scholarships, support for alumni activities, and the enhancement of the district through public relations outreach programs.
$887,312 spentof which $6,000 as grants$694,644 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,719,676.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.4M to $12M (+116%).
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.
93% of FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Lizette Carbajalthru 0625
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $510k → $548k.
8 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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: $309k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges). These are real filings, and they are not money FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES raised.
From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
39% 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 THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 87% · 2019 53% · 2020 26% · 2021 64% · 2022 43% · 2023 51% — 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
23% of FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
82% of FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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
- Los Angeles Community College District · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,371,435 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($3,500,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $13,371,435 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES?
- PERENCHIO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES 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 31 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