California · Nonprofit
HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC
HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC (California) receives grants from 197 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,979,931 to it, the largest being RING FOUNDATION ($3,230,000). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 197
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc does
Mission
In the fiscal year 2024-2025, heart of los angeles helped 3,100+ youth in central and south central los angeles overcome barriers through exceptional, free, integrated programs and personalized guidance in a trusted, nurturing environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: hola's academic programs: smart start (elementary school); bridges (grades 6-10); and college & career success (juniors, seniors, postsecondary) provided 509 students with exceptional academic support, tutoring, and mentorship. Hola has prioritized employing social-emotional learning methodologies to provide students with an adaptive approach to meeting their individual needs. Throughout the year, hola saw students getting back on track academically, and strengthening the myriad skills they need to excel in college and thrive as working adults. Hola is incredibly proud to report that 100% of seniors graduated high school and that over 98% will be attending postsecondary institutions. In the fiscal year 2024-25, hola distributed $987,200 in scholarships to 256 youth. This year, hola launched heart of a mentor network, a professional development mentorship program connecting hola scholars and alumni with hola's larger network to build relationships, provide guidance, and identify goals for their futures.
$3,056,093 spentof which $987,200 as grants39% of program spendingArts: hola's visual arts department has provided 75+ weekly visual arts classes across 7 different sites. We served 332 students on our main campus in westlake/rampart, as well as an additional 102 students at augustus hawkins nature park (ahnp) in central alameda, 98 students in the watts district through a new partnership with the watts labor community action committee (wlcac), and 890 through in-school art classes at four lausd schools in the dorsey/crenshaw cluster, schools identified as high-need by the black student achievement plan heet initiative. Hola's free visual arts programming includes classes, public art projects, field trips, access to professional artists, and wellness support services.hola's music department is comprised of the youth orchestra of los angeles (yola at hola), hola music studios (hms), and the eisner intergenerational music program (eimp), which itself contains an intergenerational choir, big band, and orchestra. The eisner intergenerational music program has 254 registered members, ages 13-76. Yola at hola, which consists of three orchestras (youth, symphony, and children's) had 192 members, while hms jazz and rock band students numbered 53. In fy…
$3,491,078 spent45% of program spendingAthletics: hola athletics served 738 students through league play and athletic enrichment programming. In 2024-2025, hola facilitated soccer leagues for elementary through high school students as well as high school girls and boys basketball through our central city athletic league, a junior jumpshot elementary and middle school basketball league, a summer active camp, and year-round healthy living classes where youth learn about the importance of nutrition, exercise, and caring for one's well-being. In the summer of 2023, hola athletics, in partnership with fhi 360 and the u.s. Department of state, sports diplomacy, sent 9 students and supervisory staff to france to participate in a sports-based exchange program, demonstrating the power that athletics has to create cross-cultural bridges and foster international collaboration.
$638,522 spent8% of program spendingFamily services
$570,624 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,756,317.
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 $26M to $13M (−48%).
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 16% · 2018 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 2% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 45 funders to 71 funders, grant income rose $4.0M → $6.1M.
26 of 197 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 197 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
HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
29% 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 HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 29% · 2019 25% · 2020 21% · 2021 28% · 2022 13% · 2023 16% — 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
45% of HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
81% of HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC's funding base is broadening — from 45 funders to 71 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $540k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$500k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$40k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC
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
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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
- Hola Community Partners · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: 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 HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC?
- HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC (California) receives grants from 197 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,979,931 to it, the largest being RING FOUNDATION ($3,230,000). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 197 organizations giving $36,979,931 in grants to HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC?
- RING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC 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 197 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