California · Nonprofit
VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (California) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,961,862 to it, the largest being THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS ($2,130,399). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Variety Boys & Girls Club does
Mission
The corporation shall run, operate and conduct a boys and girls' club in east los angeles, provide educational, recreational, charitable and guidance programs to children ages 7 to 17.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Variety Boys & Girls Club (vbgc) is a safe environment for kids (ages 5 to 17 years) and propels them to learn social skills, identify potential opportunities, as well as achieve personal, academic, athletic and other worthy goals. Vbgc provides social, recreational and athletic activities and counseling services in a controlled setting to disadvantaged youths. Since 1949, the Variety Boys & Girls Club has responded to the needs of children in the boyle heights/east los angeles community offering academic and leadership development programs, tutoring and mentoring, sports and aquatics programs, arts and crafts, a computer learning center and library, social recreation, college scholarships, and special events to award members' achievements. For almost 70 years, vbgc has provided a refuge for children who struggle daily with real life circumstances of poverty, under-resourced neighborhoods, low educational attainment, gang violence, substance abuse and poor health outcomes. Annually, over 1,800 kids participate in a program or service vbgc offers.
$2,631,157 spentof which $112,006 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,631,157.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $18M to $6.4M (−65%).
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 7% · 2022 10% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Patricia Siqueiros
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $770k → $1.3M.
9 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% 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 VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 47% · 2019 51% · 2020 37% · 2021 20% · 2022 16% · 2023 42% — 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
49% of VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
75% of VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: 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 VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB?
- VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (California) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,961,862 to it, the largest being THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS ($2,130,399). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $8,961,862 in grants to VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB?
- THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS is the largest funder on record, with $2,130,399 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 67 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