California · Nonprofit
LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION
LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,232,405 to it, the largest being CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ($1,439,315). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Los Angeles Unified School District Education Foundation does
Mission
The lausd education foundation is dedicated to supporting the lausd, in pursuit of equitable learning for all. The foundation is the bridge for the expertise and resources of the private sector to enhance and support targeted district programs and learning opportunities to ensure every child learns and succeeds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The wildfire fund: provided direct cash assistance for 888 lausd families and staff who experienced either a loss of income or relocation due to the january 2025 wildfires. Administered teacher grants for teachers impacted by the wildfires to rebuild their supplies and classroom spaces. Supported school re-opening and rebuilding through campus improvements. We financially supported the hiring of two psychiatric social workers (psws) for 2 schools, as well as provided other mental health supports. We intend to continue supporting the 13 fire-impacted schools with mental health supports, as well as provide another round of teacher grants for replacement of instructional materials for fire-impacted classrooms.
$3,611,652 spentof which $3,277,650 as grants70% of program spendingFocused, intensive investment in lausd's priority schools - the 100+ lausd campuses serving students furthest from opportunity. Includes funds for coaching, steam labs, high quality instructional materials, and other needed supports.
$1,384,412 spentof which $1,122,566 as grants27% of program spendingArts and music for all: provided funding for capital, equipment, and staff positions for lausd's instrument repair shop to ensure students continue to receive instrument repairs free of charge. We will continue to support arts and music education by sustained investment in the last repair shop, and finding opportunities to ensure students who do not have access to the arts can be connected.
$181,003 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,177,067.
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 $2.4M to $11M (+381%).
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: 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 1% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
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
Sarah S Jefferson
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Fleming
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $189k → $952k.
12 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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 UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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
72% 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 UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 69% · 2019 66% · 2020 72% · 2021 67% · 2022 52% · 2023 58% — 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
18% of LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 26% 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
97% of LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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
- Los Angeles Unified School District · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,232,405 to it, the largest being CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ($1,439,315). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $6,232,405 in grants to LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $1,439,315 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 42 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