Latino Community Foundation Grants $2.2 Million to Fuel Latino Leadership, Economic Growth, and Disaster Recovery Across California

LCF’s total grantmaking for 2025 reaches $12,893,770 to 189 organizations

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#CaliforniaWildfireandDisasterReliefFund–The Latino Community Foundation (LCF) announced today that its grantmaking for 2025 reached $12,893,770—a record high for LCF—supporting 189 organizations, 36 percent of which are first-time grantees.

Grantmaking this year focused on key areas of impact:

• The Latino Power Fund advanced civic power building by strengthening community engagement and leadership, supporting voter mobilization efforts, and building nonprofit capacity across Latino communities.
• The Latino Economic Opportunity Fund deepened investments in economic justice, bolstering Latino entrepreneurship and expanding pathways to economic opportunity.
• The California Wildfire and Disaster Relief Fund supported community-based organizations responding to Los Angeles wildfire relief and recovery needs, standing with communities through the critical first year of rebuilding.
• The Latino Giving Circle Network® mobilized collective giving and community engagement with a shared commitment to advancing immigrant rights and justice.

“LCF was built to meet this moment of urgency for Latinos,” said Julián Castro, CEO of the Latino Community Foundation. “Throughout California and our nation, Latino communities are facing enormous challenges, from the rising cost of living to unconstitutional ICE raids and an ongoing recovery from the Los Angeles area wildfires. We have their backs, and we’re proud to support amazing grassroots organizations creating greater opportunity and economic mobility for Latino families.”

As community-based organizations face growing demand with fewer resources, LCF’s investments strengthen local leadership and ensuring trusted institutions can respond in real time. “We are proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with our grantees as they build ever stronger communities,” said Latino Community Foundation Board Chair, the Honorable Lydia Villarreal. “Out of this strength and resilience, we are creating a social fabric made up of love, culture and power.”

In the fourth quarter of 2025 alone, LCF awarded $2,262,700 to 76 organizations, 28 percent of which was concentrated within the Central Valley and Central Coast to deepen partnerships with long-standing community organizations in California’s underinvested regions. LCF’s grantmaking also supported statewide and national programs advancing narrative change, Latino entrepreneurship, and multiracial solidarity.

About Latino Community Foundation

The Latino Community Foundation (LCF) is on a mission to unleash the civic and economic power of Latinos. LCF has the largest network of Latino philanthropists in the country and has raised over $100 million to build Latino civic and political power. It is the largest Latino-serving foundation in the nation. In 2023, LCF named former U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro as its CEO. For more information, please visit latinocf.org.

Contacts

Ariana Andrade, (415) 225-3776, [email protected]
Communications Director, Latino Community Foundation (LCF)

Victoria Sanchez De Alba, (650) 270-7810, [email protected]
De Alba Communications, for Latino Community Foundation (LCF)