California · Nonprofit
PF Bresee Foundation
PF Bresee Foundation (California) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,656,332 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($1,505,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $9.7M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What PF Bresee Foundation does
Mission
Bresee battles poverty by empowering youth and families in LA with the skills, resources and relationships necessary to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth Programs: Bresee provides high-quality, after-school programs for over 1,000 low-income youth in its 15,000 square foot community center in central Los Angeles annually. Middle School programming includes safe passage, homework assistance, tutoring, and enrichment including arts, dance, theater, and athletics. High School programming includes technology and STEAM programming in its state of the art Teen Tech center, career readiness, paid internships, college preparation, and college scholarships. Bresee has provided over $1 million in college scholarships to its alumni. Finally, Bresee's sports leadership department provides sports based youth development and leagues for over 600 youth annually.
$1,854,987 spentof which $84,632 as grants45% of program spendingFamily Services: Provides intensive, wrap-around support for the families of the youth Bresee serves, and social and economic stability for the community at large. Last year, the team served over 5,000 adults, helping them increase their aggregate income by over $2.8 million. Programs include emergency food and rental assistance, transportation assistance, parenting classes, academic case management, ESL classes, financial literacy and coaching, volunteer income tax assistance (VITA), immigration consultation and workshops, computer classes for adults, and referrals to a variety of social services. In addition, Bresee's intergenerational programs engage senior citizens through community building and connection with youth.
$1,677,892 spentof which $255,509 as grants41% of program spendingGang Prevention: As the lead provider for the City of LA's Gang Reduction & Youth Development (GRYD) Olympic zone, Bresee prevents over 100 10-15 year old youth, most at-risk, from joining gangs annually. Programs include intensive case management, high-quality youth development activities, and family counseling. In addition, through Summer Night Lights (SNL) Bresee's GRYD team keeps local LA parks open with safe activities during summer months, including food distribution and youth development activities for over 300 youth and families.
$592,176 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,125,055.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.8M to $5.2M (+37%).
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 44% · 2019 47% · 2020 43% · 2021 53% · 2022 60% · 2023 60% · 2024 56% · 2025 60%. 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 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
Rich Orosco
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $897k → $1.6M.
11 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 PF Bresee Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
PF Bresee Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
60% 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 PF Bresee Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 18% · 2019 13% · 2020 21% · 2021 18% · 2022 21% · 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
38% of PF Bresee Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
69% of PF Bresee 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. $2.8M 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.
Organizations like PF Bresee 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PF Bresee Foundation: 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 PF Bresee Foundation?
- PF Bresee Foundation (California) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,656,332 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($1,505,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PF Bresee Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $9,656,332 in grants to PF Bresee Foundation, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PF Bresee Foundation?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,505,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PF Bresee 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.
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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 87 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