California · Nonprofit
SISTER CITIES OF LOS ANGELES
SISTER CITIES OF LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Sister Cities of Los Angeles does
Mission
Educationthe mission of the Sister Cities of Los Angeles is to increase awareness of the various sister of los angeles partnerships and the different cultures they represent with the goal of fostering people to people diplomacy, promoting cultural ties, and developing economic trade.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
N/a
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $16k to $55k (+244%).
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.
100% of SISTER CITIES OF LOS ANGELES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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.
Chief executive
Tom Gilmore
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SISTER CITIES OF LOS ANGELES’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.
Where its funders are
SISTER CITIES OF LOS ANGELES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SISTER CITIES OF LOS ANGELES's revenue fell 99% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SISTER CITIES OF LOS ANGELES
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.
Public support
0%
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 SISTER CITIES OF LOS ANGELES: 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 SISTER CITIES OF LOS ANGELES?
- SISTER CITIES OF LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SISTER CITIES OF LOS ANGELES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to SISTER CITIES OF LOS ANGELES.
- Who is the largest funder of SISTER CITIES OF LOS ANGELES?
- THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SISTER CITIES OF LOS ANGELES 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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