The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 47-1084641. Reported 72 grants totalling $7,644,966 to 60 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 60 distinct organizations, with 27% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 14% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $921,756. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esperanza Community Housing Corporation | Los Angeles, CA | $2,027,118 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Johns Community Health | Los Angeles, CA | $693,888 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Social Impact Fund | Los Angeles, CA | $443,351 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rightway Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $439,918 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eviction Defense Network | Los Angeles, CA | $425,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| California Calls Education Fund | Los Angeles, CA | $399,118 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Onegeneration | Van Nuys, CA | $363,445 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Expanded Learning Alliance Expandla | Los Angeles, CA | $295,460 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Los Angeles Dept of Animal Servi | Los Angeles, CA | $252,900 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges | Los Angeles, CA | $234,054 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Southern California Grantmakers | Los Angeles, CA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment | Los Angeles, CA | $140,464 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator | Los Angeles, CA | $139,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens Law Center of California | Monterey Park, CA | $135,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Urban Alchemy | San Francisco, CA | $105,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Global Philanthropy Partnership | Chicago, IL | $85,295 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Initiating Change in Our Neighborhoods Community Dev Corp | Pacoima, CA | $84,375 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Managed Career Solutions Spc | Los Angeles, CA | $84,375 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| My Friends House Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Social Model Recovery Systems Inc | Covina, CA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Homeless Health Care Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gryd Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $54,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Princeton, NJ | $51,666 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vermont-Slauson Ldc Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $50,521 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Barrio Planners Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $42,188 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship | New York, NY | $32,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Core Community Organized Relief Effort | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Los Angeles Christian Health Centers | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unite-La Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ilm Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Shaw Community Transformation Corporation | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southern California Center for Nonprofit Management | Los Angeles, CA | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cangress | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Los Angeles Parks Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Indian Chamber of Commerce of California | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Century City Chamber of Commerce | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chatsworth Porter Ranch Chamber of Commerce | Chatsworth, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Get Lit Words Ignite Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Greater Boyle Heights Chamber of Commerce | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greater San Fernando Valley Chamber of Commerce | Van Nuys, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greater Sherman Oaks Chamber of Commerce | Encino, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lax Coastal Area Chamber of Commerce | Westchester, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Chambers of Commerce of the San Fernando Valley | Sherman Oaks, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Venice Chamber of Commerce | Venice, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wilmington Chamber of Commerce | Wilmington, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Woodland Hills Chamber of Commerce | Woodland Hls, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Armenian National Committee Western Region | Glendale, CA | $8,333 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Women for Wellness | Los Angeles, CA | $8,333 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Build Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $8,333 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of the Chinese American Museum | Los Angeles, CA | $8,333 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Homeboy Industries | Los Angeles, CA | $8,333 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Innercity Struggle | Los Angeles, CA | $8,333 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Keeping All Communities Informed and Engaged | Burbank, CA | $8,333 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Koreatown Youth and Community Center Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $8,333 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $8,333 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Greater Los Angeles California | Los Angeles, CA | $8,333 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Library Foundation of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
9 of 60 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.
- Social Impact Fund
EVOLVE ENTERTAINMENT FUND - City of Los Angeles
WORKFORCE EQUITY DEMONSTRATION - The Foundation for La Community Colleges
CV-19 DACA FEES-COLLEGE PROMISE - Initiating Change in Our Neighborhoods
CV-19 - STREET VENDORS/BUSINESS - My Friend's House Foundation
CV-19 - HOMELESSNESS VACCINE - Social Model Recovery Systems Inc
CV-19 - MOVE/HOMELESS VACCINE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 of 60 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 32 | $1,977,197 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 27 | $2,021,485 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 7 | $2,676,029 | $399,118 |
| 2024 | 6 | $970,255 | $95,544 |
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
98% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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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 $25,000 -- 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 The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 6 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 1000 N Alameda St 340, Los Angeles, CA, 90012.
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