Funding Amount

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Deadline

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Grant Type

Foundation

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Geography

  • In Los Angeles County

Size & budget

  • Organizations with annual budgets of $500,000

Required status

  • 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status

Other requirements

  • Charities annual budget must be $500,000 or less
  • The request must be for a capital item, not for operating funds

Overview

The Water Buffalo Club: We Benefit Children Grant supports underserved and at-risk children in Los Angeles County. For over 35 years, the club has helped small charities grow by providing funding, resources, and active member participation. The grants focus on organizations with annual budgets of $500,000 or less and are aimed at capital projects, ensuring that 100% of donations directly benefit these charities. This unique approach combines funding with volunteer efforts to maximize community impact.

We Benefit Children (WBC) is a Los Angeles-based charitable organization that aims to improve the well-being of underserved and at-risk children through its members’ commitment of time and financial resources. WBC directly impacts smaller charities by providing grants, hosting events, and supporting youth programs.
What Sets WBC Apart
We Benefit Children (WBC) is a force for good across greater Los Angeles! For over 35 years, WBC has been supporting youth in need by providing direct services and supporting projects with our community partners.
We Benefit Children (WBC) is an incubator for charities that are doing great things but are too small to garner the attention of most donors or foundations.
Not only do we help fund organizations that are “under the radar” due to their small size (budgets of less than $500,000), but WBC goes a step further—through members giving of their time. From the very start, we have believed that our time is perhaps just as important as funding any grant proposal.
Our members participate in various ways, from sourcing and vetting the organizations and programs we support to accompanying the kids who participate in our field trips, sorting and shelving books at the libraries we refurbish in Title 1 elementary schools, and giving out food at Thanksgiving at selected schools in some of Los Angeles’ most challenged neighborhoods. In doing so, WBC members, along with their families, impact our community far more than the funds we provide.
We Benefit Children is funded by its members, donations from private foundations, corporations, and generous individuals. However, unlike most charitable organizations that use a portion of the donations they receive to pay for overhead expenses, 100 percent of all donations received by WBC go directly to the charities we support.

Eligibility

We Benefit Children is a 501(c)(3) Organization.Helping underserved children in Los Angeles County
Charities annual budget must be $500,000 or less
The request must be for a capital item, not for operating funds

What Water Buffalo Club Inc DBA We Benefit Children actually gave

Source: IRS Form 990, 2024

Grants in 2024
20
Total given
$308K
Median grant
$11K
Range
$5,270–$76K
  • By dollars: California 100%. Top recipient cities: Los Angeles, CA; Beverly Hills, CA; Sherman Oaks, CA.
  • 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
  • 55% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.

Example grants

  • Make Good · Beverly Hills, CA

    Support back to school event

    $76K

  • Ready Set Read - Community Partners · El Monte, CA

    Assist underserved children

    $30K

  • FILM2FUTURE · Los Angeles, CA

    Program support

    $25K

  • Hope in a Suitcase · Los Angeles, CA

    Assist underserved children

    $19K

  • Pactl · Pasadena, CA

    Assist underserved children

    $15K

IRS Form 990, 2024. Amounts as reported by the funder. Full 990 history →

Focus Areas & Funding Uses

Fields of Work

  • Youth programs
  • Nonprofits
  • Small grants

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