Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation Snapshot

Big spenders. That's probably the first thing everyone thinks when they think about the current Dodgers organization. By my count, they have eight players with total contracts worth >$100M+. This philosophy appears to apply similarly to their Foundation, so despite having the second-highest valuation per Forbes in 2024 and the highest estimated revenue for that year, they still manage to do well in IMPACT+.

Guggenheim Baseball Management purchased the team in 2012 and as such, you find impact reports that discuss how much has been invested since 2013. I haven't gone back to the years before that to see how much the organization was giving under the previous regime, but I imagine what they are doing now is much greater.

Compared to the Angels Baseball Foundation, the LADF has shown no interest at all in increasing its asset base. Instead, they spend as much or more than their annual revenue.

Another difference between the LADF and all of the foundations I have looked at so far is the direct programming that LADF runs. Their two major programs - Dreamfields and Dreamteam - are run through the LADF. Despite this heavy investment - $5.5M in 2024 alone - the foundation maintains a strong grantmaking operation. So while grants only account for 32% of their overall expenses, that is still over $4M. In fact, the $2M grant to the California Science Center Foundation is the single largest grant from any team in 2024 in my dataset. While we see this similar dynamic with some other foundations I will cover in the future, there are others that also run direct programming, but much less grantmaking.