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Ebell of Los Angeles Rest Cottage

Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-6102928. Reported 72 grants totalling $809,000 to 34 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$809,000granted, 2020-2024
34recipients, as named on its returns
63%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,432,602assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Ebell of Los Angeles Rest Cottage did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $12,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $15,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
67 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Treasures MinistriesSherman Oaks, CA$58,000552024
Los Angeles Center for Law and JusticeLos Angeles, CA$55,000442024
Upward Bound HouseSanta Monica, CA$50,000442024
Union Rescue Mission Hope Gardens Family CenterLos Angeles, CA$47,000442023
Critical Mass Dance CompanyLos Angeles, CA$42,000552024
New Directions for Veterans Oasis ProgramLos Angeles, CA$37,000332022
Wespark Cancer Support CenterSherman Oaks, CA$37,000332022
Journey OutVan Nuys, CA$34,000332022
Families & Criminal JusticeLos Angeles, CA$32,000332022
Harvest Home IncSanta Monica, CA$30,000332024
Mental Health Advocacy Services IncGlendale, CA$30,000222023
Home Again Los AngelesBurbank, CA$25,000222024
Journey HousePasadena, CA$25,000222022
St Anne's Family ServicesLos Angeles, CA$25,000222024
St Barnabas Senior ServicesLos Angeles, CA$23,000222021
Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women and ChildrenLos Angeles, CA$22,000222021
Ready to LaunchLos Angeles, CA$22,000222024
Downtown Women's CenterLos Angeles, CA$20,000222024
The Fid Group Dba Friends in DeedPasadena, CA$20,000222024
YWCA Glendale and PasadenaGlendale, CA$20,000222024
Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women aLos Angeles, CA$15,000112024
Jewish Family Service Hope TransitionalLos Angeles, CA$15,000222021
Jewish Family Services Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA$15,000112024
Alexandria HouseLos Angeles, CA$12,000112020
Ebell of Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA$12,000112021
La Family Housing CorporationNorth Hollywood, CA$12,000112020
The Teen ProjectSun Valley, CA$12,000112020
Women Crowned in Glorysafe PassageVan Nuys, CA$12,000112020
Alcoholism Center for WomenLos Angeles, CA$10,000112021
Friends in DeedPasadena, CA$10,000112022
Good Shepherd Center Farley HouseLos Angeles, CA$10,000112023
Los Angeles House of RuthLos Angeles, CA$10,000112021
Jenesse Center IncLos Angeles, CA$5,000112020
The Homemore ProjectLos Angeles, CA$5,000112024

21 of 34 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 63%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 39 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
23 grants
Arts & Culture
6 grants
Mental Health
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Employment
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202015$160,000$12,000
202117$172,000$10,000
202212$161,000$15,000
202314$157,000$10,000
202414$159,000$11,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Los Angeles, CA
$419K
Sherman Oaks, CA
$95K
Santa Monica, CA
$80K
Pasadena, CA
$55K
Glendale, CA
$50K
Van Nuys, CA
$46K
Burbank, CA
$25K
Marina Del Rey, CA
$15K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund16 shared recipientsCalifornia Community Foundation14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc14 shared recipientsThe Ralph M Parsons Foundation13 shared recipientsThe Rose Hills Foundation13 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Ebell of Los Angeles Rest Cottage's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 743 South Lucerne Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90005. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 95-6102928 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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