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Southern California Leadership Network

Southern California Leadership Network (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,740 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($185,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$46k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$223k
Net assets
$0
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 76%
01What it does

What Southern California Leadership Network does

Mission

To train and develop new and emerging leaders for civic, nonprofit, philanthropic, public and educational leadership in the los angeles and southern california communities.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. All program services

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($874k) Expenses 100 ($898k)2018 Revenue 88 ($768k) Expenses 106 ($949k)2019 Revenue 72 ($632k) Expenses 64 ($574k)2020 Revenue 60 ($524k) Expenses 52 ($463k)2021 Revenue 65 ($566k) Expenses 60 ($543k)2022 Revenue 66 ($574k) Expenses 46 ($415k)2023 Revenue 5 ($46k) Expenses 3 ($29k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (5)Expenses (3)

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 $140k to $22k (−84%).

$64k
$37k
$107k
$205k
$140k
$22k
$0
2017201820192020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11%. 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 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$24k
’17
−$181k
’18
$58k
’19
$61k
’20
$23k
’21
$158k
’22
$17k
’23
0.5
months of
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.

201720182019202020212022
Listed292617161810
Joined·+4+2+0+5+2
No longer listed·7111310
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $58k → $35k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 Southern California Leadership Network’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

Southern California Leadership Network leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

83% 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 Southern California Leadership Network.

83%
largest funder
94%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 89% · 2019 62% · 2020 81% · 2021 100% · 2022 77% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

83% of Southern California Leadership Network's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $37k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $186k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Southern California Leadership Network

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Southern California Leadership Network: 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 Southern California Leadership Network?
Southern California Leadership Network (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,740 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($185,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Southern California Leadership Network have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $222,740 in grants to Southern California Leadership Network, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Southern California Leadership Network?
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $185,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Southern California Leadership Network 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 6 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