California · Nonprofit
LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC
LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC (California) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,102,833 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($8,831,234). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 104
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc does
Mission
The los angeles brotherhood crusade provides economically disadvantaged communities with educational services social services cultural activities vocational opportunities and economic empowerment opportunities. As well as grant support to non-profit organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The YouthSource Center serves to improve educational and employment opportunities for 14 to 29-year-old South Los Angeles youth and young adults who are unemployed and out of school or at-risk of dropping out of school. The program increases educational and career-based mentoring opportunities by aligning youth and young adults with committed mentors, re-engaging youth in school, developing their vocational life and social skills, improving their academic skills, engaging youth and young adults in work experience, volunteerism and internships and eventually helping youth and young adults secure employment. The YouthSource Center services approximately 1,250 youth.
$2,870,725 spent$2,870,725 earned by the program32% of program spendingThe Brotherhood Crusade Prevention Program is a comprehensive whole family prevention strategy. Its purpose is to address and minimize the effects of risk factors that contribute most to youth joining gangs, engaging in violence, dropping out of school or engaging in delinquency. The objective of the program is to change attitudes, behaviors and beliefs favoring gang culture and promoting these risk factors to those more aligned with social norms. The Prevention program services approximately 1,250 youth in the Southwest Los Angeles.
$1,877,030 spent$1,877,030 earned by the program21% of program spendingThe Boys, Girls and Young Men and Women of Color Program is a youth development program to help the youth succeed in school and in life by identifying and increasing educational, economic, social and leadership opportunities. The Brotherhood Crusade team mentors and engages youth in weekly programming and activities that improve their academic proficiency, socio-behavioral skills, economic growth and development, build their self-esteem and promote healthy lifestyles. The BYMOC program provides program services to approximately 500 youth.
$1,356,417 spent$1,356,417 earned by the program15% of program spendingVarious other program servcies
$2,971,377 spent$2,971,377 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,075,549.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $13M to $17M (+31%).
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: 2020 54% · 2021 62% · 2022 97% · 2023 31% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Charisse Bremond
President/CEO
Board chair
Danny J Bakewell Sr
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $5.2M.
19 of 104 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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
LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
61% 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 LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 14% · 2019 44% · 2020 35% · 2021 43% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% — 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
40% of LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
75% of LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND 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. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.2M
- Department of Labor$1.0M
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 LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC?
- LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC (California) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,102,833 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($8,831,234). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $28,102,833 in grants to LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,831,234 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 104 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