Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation
Downey, CA · EIN 47-4426889. Reported 54 grants totalling $5,460,708 to 45 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in education -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE B11).
- How spread out its giving is. 45 distinct organizations, with 52% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 41% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $130,000; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $1,858,966. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles County Office of Education | Downey, CA | $2,854,708 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Antelope Valley Boys & Girls Club | Lancaster, CA | $325,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| North Valley Caring Services | North Hills, CA | $325,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Long Beach | Long Beach, CA | $325,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Long Beach Unified School District | Long Beach, CA | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Information and Referral Federation of Los Angeles County | Pasadena, CA | $195,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $195,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Southern California Grantmakers | Los Angeles, CA | $180,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Antelope Valley Union High School District | Lancaster, CA | $87,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| After-School All-Stars Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Glendale Unified School District | Glendale, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise | Los Angeles, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Montebello Unified School District | Montebello, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vaughn Next Century Learning Center | San Fernando, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation | Downey, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Social Justice Learning Institute Inc | Inglewood, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Altadena Library Foundation | Altadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Altadena Music Theatre Inc | Altadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baldwin Park Unified School District | Baldwin Park, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bassett Unified School District | La Puente, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| College Access Plan | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Compton Unified School District | Compton, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Day One | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Environmental Charter Schools | Gardena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heads Up Foundation Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Im a Movement Not a Monument | Inglewood, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Inglewood Unified School District | Inglewood, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kizuna Little Tokyo Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Montebello Unified School District | Montebellow, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Our Own Non Profit Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pacific Coast University School of Law | Long Beach, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pacific Opera Project Incorporated | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pasadena Rosebud Academy Charter School | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pass It Forward Foundation | Reseda, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Project Passion | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sola Robotics | Gardena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Plus Me Project | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Urban Scholar Academy | Inglewood, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Volunteer Collective | Sacramento, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| We Grow La | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| El Rancho Unified School District | Pico Rivera, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Los Angeles Unified School District | Los Angeles, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
6 of 45 (13%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Los Angeles County Office of Education
TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE PROGRAMS OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION - Antelope Valley Boys & Girls Club
TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR STAFFING AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS - YMCA of Greater Long Beach
INSTALLMENT #1 OF ARPA SUBRECIPIENT AGREEMENT - Los Angeles County Probation Department
2025 GRANT TEEN TECH CENTER JUVENILE HALL - Southern California Grantmakers
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS - MANDATED SUPPORT WORK - North Valley Caring Services
ARP SUBRECIPIENT GRANT - 2ND INSTALLMENT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 29 of 45 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | $1,858,966 | $1,858,966 |
| 2021 | 1 | $187,729 | $187,729 |
| 2022 | 5 | $855,792 | $195,000 |
| 2023 | 14 | $903,871 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 33 | $1,654,350 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 26 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 7 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 9300 Imperial Highway, Downey, CA, 90242.
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