California · Nonprofit
LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY
LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,420 to it, the largest being UNIDOSUS ($78,420). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $173k
- Net assets
- $337k
What Los Angeles Communities Advocating for Unity does
Mission
LA CAUSA, Inc. empowers young adults to transform their lives through education, workforce training, and leadership development. We provide hands-on occupational training in construction and hospitality/culinary arts, academic suupport.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
LA CAUSA, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering opportunity youth and young adults through workforce development, leadership training, and educational advancement. Through hands-on occupational training in construction and hospitality/culinary arts, combined with academic support and personal development services, LA CAUSA equips participants with industry-recognized credentials, practical skills, and pathways to long-term economic self-sufficiency.Our organization is recognized in our community as a space of transformation for young people in need of second chances. Through our project AvanZa we provide access to post-secondary education, occupational training, to prepare our participants to transition into higher education, apprenticeship programs, and/or the workforce. LA CAUSA, Inc. develops skilled workers, strengthens the local workforce, and uplifts the economy in our community.
$1,279,934 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,279,934.
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 2018 to 2019, from $40k to $262k (+559%).
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 54% · 2021 43% · 2022 22% · 2023 21% · 2024 49% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% 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.
Chief executive
Virgina Reyes
Executive Director
Board chair
Javier Ramirez
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $85k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY’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 COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 59% — 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.
Where its funders are
LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Labor$1.2M
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 COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY
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
98% 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 LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY: 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 LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY?
- LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,420 to it, the largest being UNIDOSUS ($78,420). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $173,420 in grants to LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY?
- UNIDOSUS is the largest funder on record, with $78,420 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR UNITY 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 4 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