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Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the Arts

Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-3402421. Reported 19 grants totalling $213,000 to 19 organizations across tax years 2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$213,000granted, 2023
19organizations funded

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. Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the Arts 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $45,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Santa Monica College FoundationSanta Monica, CA$45,000112023
Madison ProjectSanta Monica, CA$28,500112023
Colburn SchoolLos Angeles, CA$25,000112023
The Opera BuffsLos Angeles, CA$15,000112023
UCLA FoundationLos Angeles, CA$15,000112023
USC Kaufman School of DanceLos Angeles, CA$15,000112023
BodytrafficLos Angeles, CA$10,000112023
California Dance InstitutePorter Ranch, CA$10,000112023
Ojai Playwrights ConferenceOjai, CA$10,000112023
Kids in the SpotlightBurbank, CA$5,000112023
Los Angeles Chamber OrchestraLos Angeles, CA$5,000112023
Ojai Music FestivalOjai, CA$5,000112023
Pacific Opera ProjectLos Angeles, CA$5,000112023
Ruskin TheaterSanta Monica, CA$5,000112023
Samohi OrchestrasSanta Monica, CA$5,000112023
Urban Voices ProjectLos Angeles, CA$5,000112023
Verdi ChorusSanta Monica, CA$2,500112023
Opera League of Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA$1,000112023
Zachary SocietyBeverly Hills, CA$1,000112023

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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 12 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
9 grants
Education
1 grant
Youth Development
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant

Where its money goes

Los Angeles, CA
$96K
Santa Monica, CA
$86K
Ojai, CA
$15K
Porter Ranch, CA
$10K
Burbank, CA
$5K
Beverly Hills, CA
$1K

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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsThe Ralph M Parsons Foundation8 shared recipientsCalifornia Community Foundation7 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program7 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsThe Ahmanson Foundation6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  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 Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the Arts's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 1 return. Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 10450 Wilshire Blvd Unit 11J, Los Angeles, CA, 90024. 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 95-3402421 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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