California · Nonprofit
LOS ANGELES FAMILY SCHOOL
LOS ANGELES FAMILY SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,750 to it, the largest being THE OAKRIVER FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Los Angeles Family School does
Mission
Our philosophy is built on the idea that every person possesses a unique set of abilities, challenges, and character traits. Each child comes to school with a special set of plans and preferences. School is not something that we do to kids, but something that creates a partnership with them. We tell children what we are going to do - and why. School rules have reasons. Though we like to see kids participate in all activities offered, we honor a child's choice to be an observer or to focus on those activities that interest him/her. We support kids as they join in, get messy, take risks, and try something new.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The primary exempt purpose of Los Angeles Family School, as supported by the mission statement and articles of incorporation, is to provide education for young children within the context of a safe, stimulating child care center. We serve sixty families, single-parent households as well as those in which both parents work. We are located in silver lake, a socio-economically and ethnically diverse neighborhood ten minutes from downtown los angeles, we strive to have our student body reflect the wide variety of backgrounds represented in this neighborhood.all our fund raising efforts help keep our school affordable, thus avoiding some of elitism that is seen in more expensive schools. Because tuition does not cover budgeted expenses, there is a shortfall of about $590 per child per year. Our annual giving campaign allows financially secure families to cover that shortfall while other activities (such as the holiday boutique, fall and spring rummage sales and spring faire) fill the remaining financial gap.aside from creating a non-elitist environment, these activities also allow our students to practice many of the principles and social skills which they have learned in school.
$1,192,196 spent$2,227,765 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,192,196.
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 $2.1M to $2.2M (+8%).
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.
1% of LOS ANGELES FAMILY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $224 → $161.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 FAMILY SCHOOL’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 FAMILY SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
LOS ANGELES FAMILY SCHOOL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $750 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 FAMILY SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LOS ANGELES FAMILY SCHOOL
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOS ANGELES FAMILY SCHOOL: 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 FAMILY SCHOOL?
- LOS ANGELES FAMILY SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,750 to it, the largest being THE OAKRIVER FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOS ANGELES FAMILY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,750 in grants to LOS ANGELES FAMILY SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOS ANGELES FAMILY SCHOOL?
- THE OAKRIVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOS ANGELES FAMILY SCHOOL 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 2 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