California · Nonprofit
LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,390,368 to it, the largest being ELBRIDGE STUART FOUNDATION DBA STUART FOUNDATION ($2,415,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Los Angeles Education Partnership does
Mission
To advance educational equity. Together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Laep's core work supports educational leaders in taking steps toward more equitable, liberated school environments that center equity and well-being for both students and staff. In fiscal year 2025, most of this work was provided through funding from the 21st century california school leadership academy (21csla) for educational leaders in imperial, orange, riverside, san bernardino, and san diego counties. 620 educators received core services in fy24-25 such as localized professional learning, communities of practice, and one on one coaching.
$5,246,748 spentof which $3,000 as grants44% of program spendingLaep's transform schools model uniquely emphasizes integrated support that supports for both students and families, and, through our transitional kindergarten coaching, provides new early educators with opportunities to teach while they learn. Laep's community school model aligns community resources and school assets to build collaborative, problem-solving systems that remove barriers to learning and transform schools into culturally vibrant educational centers. This process transforms schools into hubs for integrated services, college and career preparation, and student, family, and community engagement. Our teaching and learning work provides coaching and professional development and builds educator networks to promote vision- and mission-driven schools that strategically plan for and implement positive change. In 2024-2025, laep supported approximately 4,118 students, 246 parents, 341 teachers and education leaders at designated partner schools in the los angeles unified school district and pomona unified schools district through transform schools.
$3,195,795 spent$3,762,748 earned by the program27% of program spendingLaep's early childhood & family engagement program builds school readiness in children ages 0 to 3, their families and neighboring schools. Approximately 204 children participated in the program in 2024-2025, with parents. This program fosters catalytic change by working with families and leading community initiatives that improve early childhood systems and access to resources. The early headstart programs enrich parental skills starting with prenatal development, and empower parents to be early childhood and educational advocates. Laep offers childcare, home visits, social and health services, prenatal education and support.
$2,424,739 spent20% of program spendingReady2teach is a one-year workforce development initiative designed to prepare aspiring early childhood educators to earn their california child development associate teacher permit while gaining hands-on experience working with infants and toddlers. Since its launch in 2023, the program has grown from an innovative pilot into a strong workforce pathway that connects training, college coursework, mentorship, and paid internships to address the critical shortage of qualified infant and toddler educators in los angeles county. By strengthening both the educator pipeline and the capacity of early learning providers who mentor participants, ready2teach is helping build a more sustainable and equitable early childhood education system. In 2024-2025, ready2teach graduated 46 new early childhood aspiring educators.
$1,023,227 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,890,509.
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.
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 $3.5M to $11M (+206%).
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 30% · 2018 28% · 2019 31% · 2020 44% · 2021 71% · 2022 63% · 2023 54% · 2024 59% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Dawn Kurtz
CEO
Board chair
C Perry Bankston Phd
Chair (see sch. O)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $1.8M → $1.2M.
4 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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 EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
40% 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 EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 73% · 2019 65% · 2020 32% · 2021 25% · 2022 50% · 2023 39% — broadly stable.
“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
44% of LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP'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
98% of LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $284k 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.
Government funding LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$30.0M
- Department of Education$3.5M
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 EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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
- Urban Learning Centers · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP?
- LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,390,368 to it, the largest being ELBRIDGE STUART FOUNDATION DBA STUART FOUNDATION ($2,415,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $10,390,368 in grants to LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP?
- ELBRIDGE STUART FOUNDATION DBA STUART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,415,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP 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 36 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