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LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION

LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,899 to it, the largest being John Gogian Family Foundation ($206,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$213k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$403k
Net assets
$575k
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Los Angeles Challenge Corporation does

Mission

To provide assistance in tuition and educational expenses for economically disadvantaged children to realize their full potential and to obtain a quality education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provided academic scholarships to partially fund tuition and registration for 31 students in elementary through high school who met our financial need criteria.

    $155,051 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $155,051.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($154k) Expenses 100 ($143k) Net assets 100 ($330k)2018 Revenue 108 ($166k) Expenses 92 ($131k) Net assets 111 ($364k)2019 Revenue 108 ($167k) Expenses 93 ($134k) Net assets 120 ($397k)2020 Revenue 146 ($224k) Expenses 119 ($170k) Net assets 136 ($448k)2021 Revenue 98 ($151k) Expenses 156 ($223k) Net assets 114 ($376k)2022 Revenue 178 ($274k) Expenses 135 ($193k) Net assets 133 ($439k)2023 Revenue 108 ($166k) Expenses 98 ($141k) Net assets 143 ($470k)2024 Revenue 125 ($192k) Expenses 104 ($149k) Net assets 157 ($518k)2025 Revenue 139 ($213k) Expenses 115 ($164k) Net assets 174 ($575k)
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Revenue (139)Expenses (115)Net assets (174)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $449k to $380k (−15%).

$330k
$364k
$397k
$449k
$380k
$439k
$472k
$518k
$575k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$35k
’18
$33k
’19
$54k
’20
−$72k
’21
$81k
’22
$25k
’23
$44k
’24
$49k
’25
42
months of
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.

20202021202220242025
Listed77577
Joined·+0+1·+0
No longer listed·03·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $66k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 CHALLENGE CORPORATION’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

LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

51%
largest funder
75%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 37% · 2019 48% · 2020 52% · 2021 53% · 2022 77% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.

“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

63% of LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

100% of LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve42.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 4%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

80%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION?
LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,899 to it, the largest being John Gogian Family Foundation ($206,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $402,899 in grants to LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION?
John Gogian Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $206,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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