California · Nonprofit
THE GRYD FOUNDATION
THE GRYD FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,812,167 to it, the largest being THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ($7,822,487). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $111k
What The Gryd Foundation does
Mission
The Gryd Foundation believes that every youth, regardless of race, gender, or geography, should have the resources, opportunities, and systems to grow up and to lead healthy, fulfilling lives. Our mission is to create a safer, healthier los angeles with a focus on historically marginalized communities that have been heavily impacted by gang violence and that often lack resources due to racial and socioeconomic inequities.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
General program: in 2022 The Gryd Foundation and mayor's gryd office continued to modify summer night lights (snl) and fall friday nights (ffn) programming to comply with covid-19 public health guidelines while responding to the related economic crisis. Because families rely on gryd for meals, for violence prevention activities, and for summer work and the snl work experience, we set out to offer three core services during summer night lights 2022 and into the fall, plus a youth hiring component: distribution of grab-and-go bags filled with food staples and produce to promote healthy nutrition and assist families facing food insecuritydue to covid-19 and economic crisis sports pick-up games twice per week across all sites online and on-site community engagement workshops including arts, culinary, wellness, fitness, and educational skills classes 19 youth workers were hired by The Gryd Foundation to help implement the above-noted core programming services.
$1,424,422 spentof which $4,588 as grants100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,424,422.
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 2021 to 2022, from $725k to $113k (−84%).
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 18% · 2022 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of THE GRYD FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Adrienne Newsom
Executive director
Board chair
Jada Curtis
Board chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $2.9M → $15k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 THE GRYD FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
THE GRYD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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 96% · 2018 87% · 2019 86% · 2020 79% · 2021 46% · 2022 43% · 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of THE GRYD FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
94% of THE GRYD 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. $1.1M 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
THE GRYD FOUNDATION's revenue fell 57% between 2017 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,669 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2022
Organizations like THE GRYD 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 THE GRYD 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GRYD FOUNDATION?
- THE GRYD FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,812,167 to it, the largest being THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ($7,822,487). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GRYD FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $10,812,167 in grants to THE GRYD FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GRYD FOUNDATION?
- THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES is the largest funder on record, with $7,822,487 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GRYD 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 19 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