Meet the 2025 Winners

Funding & Prize Partners

• The Goldhirsh Foundation, founder and organizer of the LA2050 Grants Challenge, providing $1 million in grant funds to organizations working on the top-voted issue areas.
• The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, funding organizations working with young people to decrease income inequality, find quality jobs, or advance within careers.
• The Elbaz Family Foundation, investing in organizations working on environmental and educational causes.
• The Fox Foundation, supporting nonprofit sector innovation, sustainability, and success by investing in mission-based earned income ventures.
• The John N. Calley Foundation, supporting organizations with outstanding applications that consider youth.
• The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, funding proven programs that level the playing field and investing in solutions driven by the communities we serve.
• The R & S Kayne Foundation, investing in people and collaborating with communities to empower positive change.
• The Snap Foundation, supporting projects that develop pathways to the creative economy for underrepresented youth in Los Angeles.
• The Brunswick Foundation, funding organizations that support our region’s youth through arts education and initiatives that expand economic opportunity.

Evaluation Partner

• Social Justice Partners Los Angeles (SJPLA), serving as our external evaluation partner. SJP is a membership organization that connects community leaders to nonprofits to tackle Los Angeles’ toughest challenges. All proposals are reviewed, scored, and evaluated by members of SJPLA.

Media Partner

• KCRW creates and curates music discovery, NPR news, cultural exploration and informed public affairs. From Los Angeles to around the world, KCRW.com.

Outreach Partners

We are grateful to the following organizations for helping spread the word about this year’s Grants Challenge:

• LA County Supervisor Holly Mitchell, District 2

• LA County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath, District 3

• LA City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, District 1

• LA City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez, District 13

• LA County, Chief Sustainability Office

• LA County Department of Arts and Culture

• LA City Department of Neighborhood Empowerment

• 9 Dots

• ACOF Fund Development

• AHEAD With Horses Inc.

• Al Otro Lado

• Algalita

• Amigos de los Rios

• Anese & Associates

• Arts Culture Entertainment

• Arts for Healing and Justice Network

• Asian American Professional Association

• Atwater Village Neighborhood Council

• Black Math Collective

• Boyle Heights Chamber

• Braille Institute

• Bridge the Digital Divide

• Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics

• California Dance Institute

• Central American Historical and Ancestral Society of California

• Changeist

• Children Now

• Chosen Generation Fellowship Church

• CoachArt

• Coffee With A Cause

• Connect 2 Rise Inc

• Covenant House CA

• Dance Resource Center

• Dennis Wright Agriculture and Technology

• Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum

• East Side Riders

• Every Day Action

• Everybody Dance LA!

• EXPOSE

• Farm Habit

• Flavors From Afar

• First Place for Youth

• Food Access Los Angeles

• Foster Nation

• Friends of the Los Angeles River

• Fulfillment Fund

• Get Lit!

• Girls Club LA

• Good Habits

• Grades of Green

• Granada Hills Charter

• Grid110

• Hacker Fund

• Harbor Connects

• Heal the Bay

• Healing & Justice Center

• Healing California

• Heart of LA

• Home of Kings and Queens

• ICAN California Abilities Network

• ICON CDC

• Inclusion Matters by Shane’s Inspiration

• Inclusive Action for the City

• Inner City Law Center

• KIPP SoCal Public Schools

• Korean American Coalition Los Angeles

• Kultur Mercado

• LAIT911 FIRE

• Las Fotos Project

• League of Women Voters, Greater LA

• Liddo Grannies Touch

• Lineage Performing Arts Center

• Little Tokyo Community Council

• Los Angeles Climate Week

• Los Angeles County CHW/P/R Consortium

• Los Angeles Maritime Institute

• Los Angeles Music and Art School

• Los Angeles Neighborhood Institute

• Luskin Summit 2025

• Mata Consulting, LLC

• Meals in Motion

• Michelson 20MM Foundation

• Mujeres Unidas Sirviendo Activamente

• National Foster Youth Institute

• NationBuilder

• Neococo

• North East Trees

• North Hollywood West Neighborhood Council

• One Degree

• Our Generation Cares

• Para Los Niños

• Parenting for Liberation

• Pasadena Village

• People's Pottery Project

• Phenomenal Angels of the Community

• Porter Ranch Neighborhood Council

• Ready to Succeed

• Red Hen Press

• Redeemer Community Partnership

• Resilience Rising

• Rising TIDE @ MKEC

• Rosebud Coffee

• Safety In Color

• ScholarMatch

• Second Nurture

• Sisters of Watts

• SJPLA

• Skatepark Association

• SoCal East Student Athlete Academy

• Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs

• Stronger Than the Struggle

• Stopping Cry’s

• Streets Are For Everyone

• SoLa Impact

• Somos Familia Valle

• Surf Bus Foundation

• Survivor Justice Center

• Thai CDC

• The Civics Center

• The Emily Shane Foundation

• The Helpful Homegirls

• The Nonprofit Partnership

• The RightWay Foundation

• The Village Family Services

• The Young Shakespeareans

• Thrive in Joy Nick Fagnano Foundation

• Tiyya Foundation

• Trust for Public Land

• U.S. Africa Institute

• USC Joint Educational Project

• Vida Mobile Clinic

• We Grow LA

• Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum

• You Run This Town Foundation

• Zócalo Public Square