A Report on Foundation Giving in Los Angeles

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

April 20, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute

NEW BOOKS

Foundations for Los Angeles?: An Analysis of the Scale, Scope and Reach of Foundation Philanthropy in Los Angeles County, by James M. Ferris, Rachel Potter, and Michael Tuerpe, examines the Los Angeles charities that received grant money from local foundations from 1992 to 2002. The report found that assets at the foundations doubled in that time, but that groups in and around the city did not benefit from all the new money flowing into foundations. The 48 Los Angeles grant makers in the study gave away $667-million in 2002, but only 41 percent of those grant dollars were awarded to nonprofit organizations in and around Los Angeles.

Publisher: Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy, University of Southern California, Lewis Hall, Room 210, Los Angeles, Calif. 90089; (213) 740-9492; fax (213) 740-0001; cppp@usc.edu; http://www.usc.edu/philanthropy; 63 pages; available free for download on the organization’s Web site.

About the Author

M.J. Prest

Senior Editor, Solutions

M.J. Prest is senior editor for solutions at the Chronicle of Philanthropy, where she highlights how nonprofit leaders navigate and overcome major challenges. She has covered stories on big gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004. Her work has also appeared in the Washington Post, Slate.com, and the Huffington Post, and she wrote the young-adult novel Immersion. M.J. graduated from Williams College and after living in many different places, she settled in New England with her husband, two kids, and two rescue dogs.