California · Nonprofit
UNITE-LA INC
UNITE-LA INC (California) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,474,393 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($3,880,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Unite-La Inc does
Mission
UNITE-LA's mission is to advance equitable, economic mobility and well-being through collaboration that strengthens systems, policies and high-quality education and career pathways. UNITE-LA works on behalf of local youth by providing programmatic support from cradle to career; in our systems change and strategic partnerships - brokering partnerships to granting equal access and achieving systemic change; and in issues, advocacy and expertise - advocating at the local, regional, state and federal levels to building equitable, institutional frameworks serving youth and families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
WORKFORCE PROGRAMS INCLUDING L.A. CASH FOR COLLEGE, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, WORKFORCE READY, JOB SKILLS WORKSHOPS AND WORK READINESS, MY PATHWAY TO HEALTH, STEP INTO TECH, L.A. REGIONAL CLEANTECH CAREER ACADEMY, TECH PATHWAYS ACADEMY - POWERED BY MICROSOFT, SOUTH LA SCHOLARS PLUS (HEALTH CARE CAREER PATHWAY), AND FUTURE FORWARD FORUMS: L.A. Cash for College - L.A. Cash for College (LA-CFC) provides direct support, information and resources for financial aid to students and families across Los Angeles. This is done in collaboration with a wide network of nonprofits, college access providers, high school counselors and local higher education admissions staff. Programming is year-long, with financial aid workshops and events beginning in the fall semester and concluding in the spring. L.A. Cash for College also includes our scholarship awards program, Dollars for Scholars, which continued last year with its virtual format and awarded L.A. Cash for College participants $30,000 in scholarships through the Dr. Alma Salazar and Gary Toebben Scholarship Funds. Workforce Development - For more than 25 years, UNITE-LA has led business education partnership programs to help develop a…
$1,800,974 spentof which $160,738 as grants33% of program spendingSystems Changes including L.A. Compact, K-16 Collaborative, and LA-DEAL: L.A. Compact - Since 2008, UNITE-LA has convened the L.A. Compact, a bold commitment to close the education and workforce gaps caused by systemic inequities and racism. Recognizing that no single institution alone can solve our most pressing, complex education and workforce challenges, the L.A. Compact brings together the region's most prominent leaders to collectively lead transformative change. Our unique role as an intermediary allows us to build consensus among diverse stakeholders through collaborative strategies, creating more sustainable and scalable education and workforce solutions. K-16 Collaborative - The L.A. Region K-16 Collaborative is a collective effort to close racial and gender attainment gaps in postsecondary education and employment in L.A. County, starting with a focus on streamlined pathways to health care, engineering and computer science careers. Following a state grant award last August to launch the Collaborative, UNITE-LA is working with West Ed and a stewardship group of cross-sector partners to guide a sub-grant award process that is allocating $13.9 million across five…
$1,972,061 spent36% of program spendingPUBLIC POLICY: The Policy team at UNITE-LA makes sure our local and state leaders prioritize the needs of the unserved and underserved and do so by continuing long-standing and building new partnerships with business organizations to mobilize private sector leaders on critical issues impacting the wellbeing of the communities where they conduct business. Policy works around topics such as early childcare and education, immigration, opportunity youth and many others to ensure business leaders are not only aware but also can also be part of the solution to key, societal issues so that all youth have an opportunity to succeed in life. UNITE-LA's policy agenda, entitled "A Coordinated System from Cradle to Career in California," can be found here: https://www.unitela.com/2022-policy-agenda.
$842,322 spent15% of program spendingUNITE-LA's systems change, policy and programmatic efforts are bolstered by strategic partnerships with NBC-ACCE and Educare. NBC-ACCE - The partnership between the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Foundation (ACCE-F) and UNITE-LA leverages ACCE's powerful network of 1,600 member chambers of commerce and other business organizations, which represent about 1.2 million organizations that employ approximately 70 million people, with UNITE-LA's capacity and expertise in strengthening cradle-to-career education and workforce development systems, policies and programs. Educare - Educare Los Angeles at Long Beach, of which UNITE-LA is an Advisory Board Member, was formed through a public-private partnership among organizations committed to ensuring all children receive high-quality care and education from the moment they are born to the day they enter kindergarten. Educare Los Angeles at Long Beach works to increase access to high-quality early learning across southern California. The school is a hub for modeling how early learning programs can provide quality early childhood education, partner with families, and advocate for education practice and policy.
$862,681 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,478,038.
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 $3.4M to $5.6M (+62%).
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 19% · 2018 20% · 2019 24% · 2020 23% · 2021 21% · 2022 37% · 2023 35% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of UNITE-LA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Francisco Rodriguez
CHAIR/Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $920k → $2.6M.
8 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $335k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITE-LA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITE-LA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
UNITE-LA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
30% 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 UNITE-LA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 33% · 2019 55% · 2020 14% · 2021 13% · 2022 37% · 2023 19% — 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
56% of UNITE-LA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
73% of UNITE-LA INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
UNITE-LA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding UNITE-LA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Labor$2.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UNITE-LA INC
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 UNITE-LA INC: 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 UNITE-LA INC?
- UNITE-LA INC (California) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,474,393 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($3,880,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITE-LA INC have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $20,474,393 in grants to UNITE-LA INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITE-LA INC?
- CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,880,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITE-LA INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 54 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