2025 Grants and Partners
Reflects Giving from August – December 2025
Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics: Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM) specializes in advanced math for students with backgrounds underrepresented in STEM fields, currently serving over 300 students annually in Los Angeles. TBF’s funding helped BEAM, a best-in-class direct service organization founded in New York City, expand and scale its presence to Los Angeles. Of BEAM students who’ve declared majors in college, over 70% are STEM, making BEAM students 1.3 times more likely to major in STEM versus a comparison group of accepted and waitlisted students who did not participate in BEAM.
Center for Powerful Public Schools: The Center for Powerful Public Schools builds the capacity of educators to create and sustain schools that prepare every student for college, career and life. Our grant will support the Center’s effort to establish a community of practice—maybe the first of its kind at LAUSD—among 7-11 continuation schools to integrate career education and work-based learning opportunities into their school models. Continuation schools enroll students who are at significant risk of not graduating from a traditional high school due to extenuating circumstances like expulsion or truancy.
Charles R. Drew University: Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) is a private, nonprofit institution dedicated to educating health professionals who are committed to health equity. Funding from TBF addresses a critical barrier in advanced practice nursing education by supporting the training and compensation of preceptors, licensed clinicians who supervise Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) students during their clinical rotations. Preceptors play an essential role in bridging advanced coursework with complex, real‑world patient care across diverse practice settings. Without qualified preceptors, APRN students cannot complete their clinical requirements, progress through their programs or become eligible for national certification and state advanced practice licensure.
Compton College: Compton College serves as the backbone entity and lead intermediary of the Compton Community Health Professions Partnership (CCHPP), a collaborative initiative formalized through a signed MOU among seven key healthcare partners in Compton. These include education partners Compton Unified School District, Compton College, CSU Dominguez Hills and Charles R. Drew University; and employer partners Kedren Health, St. John’s Community Health and Watts Healthcare. Launched in 2023, CCHPP trains, hires and retains Compton students in healthcare by establishing a vertically integrated, community-rooted pipeline that connects middle schools, high schools, community colleges, four-year universities and local employers. With support from TBF, CCHPP can hire dedicated staff at each education partner institution to help the collaborative meet ambitious goals of aligning curricula across institutions, developing a joint application process and expanding outreach and enrollment into the program.
Coro California: Coro California is dedicated to strengthening civic leadership in Los Angeles and across the state by cultivating a robust pipeline of talented, values-driven leaders. TBF funding will support Coro’s flagship Fellows Program in Public Affairs, expanding opportunities for Los Angeles based leaders to gain immersive, hands-on experience in local government. By connecting emerging leaders directly with municipal departments and agencies, the program helps inspire and prepare the next generation to pursue meaningful careers in public service.
Futuro Health: Futuro Health addresses the critical shortage in healthcare workers to improve the health and well-being of communities by growing the largest network of allied health workers in the nation. Allied health pathways span various non-physician and non-nursing roles in healthcare, a workforce that has declined over the past six years and is expected to continue shrinking through 2026. TBF funding will help launch Futuro Health’s “100 for Health” initiative in L.A., which will move 125 Angelenos into three high-demand pathways in the healthcare sector: EMT, community health worker and peer support specialist.
Goldhirsh Foundation – LA2050 Grants Challenge: LA2050 is a community-guided initiative led by the Goldhirsh Foundation focused on driving progress toward a shared vision for the future of Los Angeles through research and reporting, digital and physical engagement and local grantmaking. Each year, thousands of Angelenos participate in the Grants Challenge by voting for the issues that matter most to them, and nonprofit organizations submit their ideas to tackle those issues. TBF’s grant to the 2025 LA2050 Grants Challenge supports five local organizations driving innovative solutions in civic and media literacy and youth economic advancement. This marks TBF’s second year partnering with the Goldhirsh Foundation. In 2024, TBF funding supported eight grants to community organizations advancing nonpartisan voter engagement and education across underrepresented communities in Los Angeles County.
L.A. Works: L.A. Works, one of Los Angeles’ largest and longest-standing civic engagement organizations, is launching a staffing program to expand volunteer management and event coordination capacity for L.A. nonprofits, as well as modernizing its technology platform to better connect Angelenos with meaningful volunteer opportunities. Together, these investments will enhance both the scale and impact of hands-on community service experiences across the county.
Los Angeles Unified School District Education Foundation – Compassion Fund: The LAUSD Education Foundation is dedicated to supporting LAUSD, its students and employees. This grant will support the establishment of the foundation’s Compassion Fund, a rapid response fund designed to support students and families facing acute hardship, including students experiencing housing instability, recently arrived students and families to LAUSD, and families affected by unexpected personal or community emergencies, such as immigration raids. The fund will provide discreet, flexible aid through school-based staff who know their communities best.
LAUSD Education Foundation – Foundation Capacity and District Program Landscape Scan: The LAUSD Education Foundation is dedicated to supporting LAUSD, its students and employees, in pursuit of equitable learning for all. The foundation is the bridge for the expertise and resources of the private sector to enhance and support targeted district programs and learning opportunities to ensure every child learns and succeeds. Our grant enhances the foundation’s operational capacity and supports a districtwide program landscape analysis to establish LAUSD’s first comprehensive inventory of all academic, enrichment and support programs and pathways to the district, regional and school levels.
Loyola Marymount University – Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles (StudyLA): Founded in 1996 in response to the 1992 L.A. Riots, StudyLA at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a leading undergraduate research center with extensive experience in conducting public opinion surveys, exit polls, leadership studies, community studies and culture and climate assessments. TBF funding will support nonpartisan election research to identify effective strategies for engaging unlikely and low-propensity voters in Los Angeles by partnering with trusted messengers, including community college students and community members, to conduct the research.
Partnership for Children and Youth: Partnership for Children and Youth (PCY) is the main advocacy organization in California addressing state legislation and policy to increase and sustain public funding for expanded learning programs. PCY creates research-based communities of practice to elevate best practices and learnings to inform policy and builds coalitions among program providers, elected officials and other youth-serving organizations to build political presence and power. TBF’s funding will provide renewed support for PCY to increase their advocacy capacity to strengthen the expanded learning field and increase pathways for the youth workforce, particularly through the effective implementation of Expanded Learning Opportunity Program state funding. PCY has been instrumental in securing and increasing the historic $4 billion annual commitment for the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program in the California state budget beginning in 2022.
Step Up Tutoring: Step Up Tutoring mobilizes a national tutoring corps to provide one-on-one high-impact tutoring to 2nd–8th grade students from under-resourced communities. They equip tutors with structured training, research-backed math and reading curricula, and adaptive AI-enabled learning tools to ensure every student gets both human connection and high-quality academic support at a fraction of the traditional cost of high-impact tutoring programs. TBF’s grant supports the development and scaling of a comprehensive literacy tutoring program grounded in the Science of Reading, focused on closing foundational literacy gaps before they become long-term barriers particularly for students in grades 4-8, a population that has been historically underserved in foundational reading instruction and where the need is especially urgent.