California · Nonprofit
RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION
RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,025,544 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH BIXBY JANEWAY FOUNDATION ($1,340,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation does
Mission
The mission of Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation is public education in the broadest possible sense. The foundation uses the historic site, its history and resources to explore the story of the site in relation to the region, state, nation and beyond through the lens of cultural geography - the interaction between culture and environment. The site offers school tours, public tours, lectures, public educational programs and events, and develops educational materials for the long beach unifired school district.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The foundation preserves, restores and manages the historic site and has responsibliity for developing the educational potential of the landmark site under the public/private cooperative partnership with the owner, the city of long beach. The foundation is open to the public free of charge five days a week in the afternoons, free school tours are offered in the mornings, including children's native american cultural workshops, and seasonal large-scale public educational programs are presented, again free of charge. The tour content explores the evolution of southern california, from native american settlement to contemporary times, using the cultural ecology of the historic site as a microcosm of the larger experience.
$1,231,013 spent$535,722 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,231,013.
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 2020 to 2021, from $8.5M to $13M (+55%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 2% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Pamela Young Lee
Executive director
Board chair
Henry Taboada
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $500k → $63k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION’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
RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 77%; 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: 2017 76% · 2018 83% · 2019 80% · 2020 85% · 2021 39% · 2022 31% · 2023 32% — 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
38% of RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS 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
98% of RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS 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. $99k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS 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 RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION?
- RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,025,544 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH BIXBY JANEWAY FOUNDATION ($1,340,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,025,544 in grants to RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION?
- ELIZABETH BIXBY JANEWAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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