Atlas Kardia Foundation concentrates its giving on programs that serve young people in underserved Los Angeles communities, with an emphasis on mental health, counseling, homelessness prevention, and arts-based healing. They favor established local nonprofits that deliver direct services and creative youth engagement rather than broad policy work, and they make repeat, sizable grants to a small set of organizations.
Concentrated, mid-to-large grants to a relatively small number of repeat grantees—multiple multi-year or repeat awards rather than many small one-off gifts—focused geographically (primarily Los Angeles) and programmatically on youth-serving direct services.
Atlas Kardia Foundation makes repeated, sizable program-support grants to a relatively small circle of nonprofits serving young people in Los Angeles and nearby communities. One of the clearest signals in its recent giving is the $133,000 award to Little Tokyo Service Center for program support, followed by additional support to the same organization in 2025. The foundation also backed The Art of Elysium with grants of $130,539 in 2025 and $102,216 in 2023, showing sustained support for arts-based programming. Its recent grants point to direct-service work rather than broad policy funding: youth counseling, homelessness prevention, mental health support, and creative healing efforts appear repeatedly across the list. Atlas Kardia Foundation’s giving also includes organizations serving homeless and at-risk youth, as well as community-based groups working in Los Angeles neighborhoods. Several grants are structured as program support, and the pattern suggests the foundation favors established local nonprofits with defined service models. The portfolio also includes organizations beyond Los Angeles, including New York and San Francisco, but the center of gravity remains in youth-serving, community-based programming.
Mental health and counseling are a major thread in the foundation’s grantmaking. It gave $125,000 to Helpline Youth Counseling in 2024 for program support, and it also supported Fountain House with $100,000 in 2024. Services for homeless and at-risk youth are another clear priority: Safe Place for Youth received $120,000 in 2025 for program support and $120,000 in 2023 under a general grant. Arts-based work appears as well. The Art of Elysium received $130,539 in 2025 for program support, while Heart of Los Angeles received $100,000 in 2025 and $100,000 in 2024. Community development and social services show up through grants to Little Tokyo Service Center and A Place Called Home, both of which received program support in 2025 and 2024.
Atlas Kardia Foundation’s typical grant size clusters tightly around six figures: the 25th percentile is $85,000, the median is $100,000, and the 75th percentile is $102,216. The recent record shows repeat support to the same nonprofits across multiple years, including several organizations that received grants in 2023, 2024, and 2025. The foundation appears to fund through program support and related general grants rather than through individuals or program-related investments. Its pattern is selective and relationship-based, with many grants landing at the same dollar levels year after year.
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$24.5M
$3M
$1.1M
Most grants fall between $85K and $102K, with a median of $100K.
25th Percentile
$85K
Median
$100K
75th Percentile
$102K
About 0% of grants go to recipients in CA.
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Notable grantees: Active Minds, Safe Place for Youth, The Art of Elysium, Little Tokyo Service Center, Helpline Youth Counseling
All of the recent grants in the sample went to U.S. recipients. Los Angeles is the main city in the portfolio, with multiple grants to organizations in Los Angeles, Marina del Rey, Pasadena, Whittier, and Calabasas. New York also appears through a grant to Fountain House in New York, NY, and the foundation’s giving extends to Washington, DC, and Washington, WA through Active Minds. Although Atlas Kardia Foundation is headquartered in Wilmington, DE, none of the recent grants in this sample went to Delaware recipients.
Its recent grants go to youth counseling, homelessness prevention, arts-based healing, and community-service organizations. Examples in the record include Helpline Youth Counseling, Safe Place for Youth, The Art of Elysium, Little Tokyo Service Center, and A Place Called Home.
Yes. Several organizations received support in multiple years. The Art of Elysium appears in 2023 and 2025; Safe Place for Youth appears in 2023, 2024, and 2025; and Little Tokyo Service Center and Heart of Los Angeles both received grants in more than one year.
The grant-size distribution is centered around six figures: the 25th percentile is $85,000, the median is $100,000, and the 75th percentile is $102,216.
New York is the top state by grant count in the data, but the grant list is heavily concentrated in California cities, especially Los Angeles and nearby communities such as Marina del Rey, Pasadena, Whittier, and Calabasas.
No. The foundation funds organizations rather than individuals, and it does not make program-related investments.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE ART OF ELYSIUM | LOS ANGELES, CA | $130,539 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH | MARINA DEL REY, CA | $120,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| ACTIVE MINDS | WASHINGTON, WA | $120,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO | PASADENA, CA | $100,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER | LOS ANGELES, CA | $100,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| A PLACE CALLED HOME | LOS ANGELES, CA | $100,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| HEART OF LOS ANGELES | LOS ANGELES, CA | $100,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| VISTA DEL MAR CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES | LOS ANGELES, CA | $53,508 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER | LOS ANGELES, CA | $133,000 | 2024 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| HELPLINE YOUTH COUNSELING | WHITTIER, CA | $125,000 | 2024 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| HEART OF LOS ANGELES | LOS ANGELES, CA | $100,000 | 2024 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| FOUNTAIN HOUSE | NEW YORK, NY | $100,000 | 2024 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| A PLACE CALLED HOME | LOS ANGELES, CA | $100,000 | 2024 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| HEART FORWARD LA SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS FBO | CALABASAS, CA | $100,000 | 2024 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH | MARINA DEL REY, CA | $100,000 | 2024 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| BRING CHANGE TO MIND | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | $100,000 | 2024 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| VISTA DEL MAR CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES | LOS ANGELES, CA | $41,366 | 2024 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| THE ART OF ELYSIUM | LOS ANGELES, CA | $36,579 | 2024 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH | MARINE DEL REY, CA | $120,000 | 2023 | GENERAL |
| ACTIVE MINDS | WASHINGTON, DC | $120,000 | 2023 | GENERAL |
| THE ART OF ELYSIUM | LOS ANGELES, CA | $102,216 | 2023 | GENERAL |
| BRING CHANGE 2 MIND | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | $100,000 | 2023 | GENERAL |
| HELPLINE YOUTH COUNSELING INC | WHITTIIER, CA | $85,000 | 2023 | GENERAL |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | CALABASAS, CA | $50,000 | 2023 | GENERAL |
| VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | LOS ANGELES, CA | $31,276 | 2023 | GENERAL |
THE ART OF ELYSIUM
$130,539PROGRAM SUPPORT
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO
$100,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER
$100,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
PROGRAM SUPPORT
HEART OF LOS ANGELES
$100,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER
$133,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
HEART OF LOS ANGELES
$100,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
THE ART OF ELYSIUM
$36,579PROGRAM SUPPORT
THE ART OF ELYSIUM
$102,216GENERAL