California · Nonprofit
PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS
PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,633,863 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($23,166,700). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $94M
- Net assets
- $47M
What Partnership for Los Angeles Schools does
Mission
We transform schools to revolutionize school systems, empowering all students with a high-quality education. The partnership's goals are to 1) dramatically accelerate achievement for students in the district's highest need and historically under-resourced schools, and 2) remove barriers, pioneer new programs and scale success to benefit all district students. The partnership seeks to become a model for collaboration, school reform and community advancement that can be replicated throughout los angeles, california and the nation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transform schools - to increase graduation rates and proficiency rates in math and literacy
$14,995,589 spentof which $70,500 as grants$1,875,037 earned by the program67% of program spendingRevolutionize school systems - to champion more equitable policies and practices for highest-need schools
$7,224,100 spentof which $1,840,069 as grants33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,219,689.
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 2017 to 2018, from $11M to $37M (+243%).
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 5% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $3.0M → $13M.
14 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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
PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
48% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 50% · 2019 37% · 2020 25% · 2021 29% · 2022 23% · 2023 25% — 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
44% of PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
54% of PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $600k on record.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$600k
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 PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS?
- PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,633,863 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($23,166,700). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $93,633,863 in grants to PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,166,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS 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 84 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