California · Nonprofit
LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL
LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,735,007 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTION ($285,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall does
Mission
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. It provides an open and accessible platform for public dialogue, fostering informed discussion and deeper understanding of critical issues shaping the world. Through events, programs and thought leadership, the organization promotes civic engagement, and lifelong learning in a welcoming, inclusive environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational events: the organization hosted a series of public educational programs, including webinars and in-person events, featuring distinguished speakers from government, diplomacy, national security, business, media, and academia. Speakers included a former director of the national security agency, a former nato supreme allied commander, a former cia and national security council senior official, foreign consuls general representing france, belgium, qatar, australia, japan, india, and the philippines, the ceo of a major u.s. Energy company, the former speaker of the u.s. House of representatives, and the chief of police of los angeles. Additional presenters included senior policy experts, journalists, and scholars from leading think tanks, technology companies, and universities. Programs addressed current domestic and international issues, including foreign policy, democracy, international security, technology and artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, energy transitions, urban policy, and global conflicts. All programs were presented in a nonpartisan, non- advocacy format and were open to the public, with webinars offered at no cost. Total attendance exceeded 3,400
$645,337 spent$58,734 earned by the program76% of program spendingOnline media: online media encompasses the organizations digital educational outreach through its website and internet platforms. An online archive of recorded educational programs is made available to the public free of charge. Webinars are recorded and distributed via youtube, where total viewership exceeded 67,000 during the year.
$91,768 spent11% of program spendingStudent program: the organization hosted three in-person luncheons exclusively for high school students from the los angeles area, focusing on the reliability of the u.s. Election process, critical thinking, and artificial intelligence. Total attendance exceeded 400 students. In addition, students participated in webinars, in-person events, and luncheons that included small-group briefings with featured speakers.
$108,160 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $845,265.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.8M to $2.9M (−23%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Maria Contreras Sweet
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 13 funders, grant income rose $123k → $263k.
7 of 42 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 WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL’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 WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
34% 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 WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 29% · 2019 22% · 2020 28% · 2021 44% · 2022 28% · 2023 28% — 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
45% of LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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 WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $304k 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 WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL?
- LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,735,007 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTION ($285,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $1,735,007 in grants to LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL?
- CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTION is the largest funder on record, with $285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing