Making This Possible

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The LACHSA Foundation was founded in 1984, making 2024 our 40th Anniversary year. LACHSA opened its high school doors to student artists a year later, in September of 1985, making 2025 – 2026 its 40th anniversary year. For the next two school years, we are celebrating the impact of the first 40 years and advancing the next 40 years of this incredible, fully-public specialized arts high school. 
 
We believe LACHSA is worth every investment we make and in this 40th Anniversary celebration, we’ve become even bolder. Every school year, the LACHSA Foundation is committed to the success of LACHSA, in partnership with the LA County Department of Education or LACOE. The LACHSA Foundation offers many philanthropic opportunities to raise critical funding for LACHSA and invest in its student artists. We invite everyone to give what they can or to make introductions so that LACHSA can thrive. 

Endowments

Our founding visionaries had long term, sustainable goals and we are grateful to the state of California for its investments in LACHSA as well as philanthropic institutions, like the Doris Duke Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, and the Ahmanson Foundation. Many of these nationally recognized Foundations helped to establish endowments that continue to support the exemplary arts education at LACHSA to this day. If your philanthropic Foundation would like to contribute to these endowments, please contact our Executive Director, Trena Pitchford, at tpitchford at lachsafoundation dot org.
 

Fundraising Strategies

Beyond the investment strategies, the Foundation raises critical funding every school year through a variety of ways 365 days a year. The Foundation manages the box office at LACHSA, meaning every ticket that is ordered for a school performance or exhibition benefits LACHSA. We also manage the brand and LACHSA’s merchandise, meaning every t-shirt or coffee cup that is ordered benefits the school, too. Foundation staff writes grants to philanthropic foundations and manages corporate gifts from companies who believe in the next generation of artists and cultural bearers. We have a growing group of monthly donors, and our annual Ovation Guild members who sustain our work in sharing LACHSA’s story and advancing its exemplary arts curriculum and instruction.
 

Thank You

Every donation, in-kind gift, volunteer hour or introduction helps the Foundation to fulfill its mission. The Foundation is grateful to all of the supporters of LACHSA, including the generous donors below, who help further the legacy of LACHSA’s students who were born to create and destined to change the world.
 

$100,000+

The John C. Hench Foundation

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

The Talented Students in the Arts Initiative, an endowment established in collaboration with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Surdna Foundation

 

$75,000 – $99,999

BCM Foundation

Ralph M. Parsons Foundation

 

$50,000 – $74,999

Chip and Kathleen Rosenbloom

Michael and Deanna Schlesinger

Well Why Not Foundation

 


$25,000 – $49,999

LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath

 

$10,000 – $24,999

Caroline Leonetti Ahmanson Endowment

Anonymous

Daryl and Tony Barbieri

LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger

Colburn Foundation

Scott Power and Channing Dungey

Find Your Light Foundation

Menachem Gastwirth

Amy and Becky Glass

Golden Globe Foundation

Gina and Brett Gurewitz

LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn

Hennings-Fischer Foundation

Wendy Lawson Charitable Trust

Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts

Anson Sowby

Summer Arts Conservatory

Katie Taylor

Today I’m Brave Foundation

Warner Bros. Discovery

 

$5,000 – $9,999

Kimberly Barros

Michael Amundson and Kate Beyda

Jamie Bridgers

Bari Milken Bernstein

Dana & Albert R. Broccoli Charitable Foundation

Aaron McPherson and Challen Cates

ECMC Foundation

Ella Fitzgerald Foundation

Eugene Kim

Adrienne and Matthew Nelson

Netflix / Live Nation

The Chae Pyken Charitable Trust

Alan Sartirana

Skei Saulnier

John and Natsue Sheppard

Evelyn Yamauchi

Jean and Joe Zenas

 

$2,500 – $4,999

Adam Schulman Memorial Scholarship Foundation

Apple Corporation

California Community Foundation

Christie Bramblett

Cecile and Jeff Chiu

John Ross Bowie and Jamie Denbo

Lisa Trovato and Danny Espinoza

Fidelity Charitable Fund

Sheila, Dave and Sherry Gold Foundation

Dr. Stuart Gothold

Erik Henry

Matthew Puckett and Maggie Kiley

Christian and Carmel Lachel

Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust

Seth MacFarlane Foundation

Conchita and Jason Newman

Sondra Nunez

Vivian Rescalvo

Scott Roberson and Devon Sedlacek

Preeti Tahiliani

Greg Wong Charitable Trust

 

$1,000 – $2,499

Bianca and Ethan Adelman

Anthony Anderson

Judith Borges

Victor Cole

Kimberly and David Delgado

The Walt Disney Company

Kenneth Donnelly

Auzzsa Eaton

Camille Farnsworth-Schrader

Jon Fiore

First Hawaiian Bank

Larry Fojtik

Alejandro Gehry

Jenny Hollowell

Karen Hsueh

Asa Hursh

Emma Irwin

Lisa Irwin

Anne Jacoby

Randall Lee and Stella Jeong

Johnson and Johnson

Andrew Kaplan

Michael and Stefanie Killackey

Lauri Kokoefer

Claudia Lin

Tristan Liu

Laura and Daniele Luppi

Gwen Luru Endowment

Juliette Markowitz

Lori Marlow

Mercedes Martinez

Stacey Boucher and Darren Merritt

Dean McLane

Robert Rodriguez and Lerida Mojica

Anita Greenspan and Mark Mothersbaugh

Tania Nasir

Geneva O’Keith

Seungmi Park

Sienna and Will Penick

Julia Pike

Kathryn and Francis Remkiewicz

Jennifer Reynolds

David Ring

Adelaida Severson

Alice and Tony Shyu

Roeland Sie

Meghan Skinner

Supplemental Audio, LLC

Beka Uraimov

Dr. Tina Vartanian

Leslie Ward

Pascal Wever

The William Wishnick Foundation

Elizabeth Withstandley

Stephen Wong

 

Special thanks to those who supported the Wildfire Relief Fund

Lizeth Alvarado

Melinda Amato

David and Ileana Angelo

Apple Corporation

Daryl Barbieri

Stephen Bartlett

Justin Beam

Elisabeth Bergmann-Penn

Mary Blades

Laura Cano

Anna Tugnoli Chiat

Jessica Craven

Kimberly and David Delgado

Lisa Trovato and Danny Espinoza

Nicole Fair

Holly Finkelstein

Eve Flores

Grant George

Gregory Grano

Lidia Hill

Meredith Hoffa

Bridget Holland

Warren Kaplan

Hilda Kelley

Morgan Lebus

Max Lesser

Tina and Wayne Levenfeld

Katie Mui

Emmanuel Munda

Jess Padilla Bowen

Michael Rawlins

Kathleen Melville Rosenbloom

Mike and Susan Sabes

Jessica Santos

Michael Schlesinger

Marisa Tambornini

Julie Villalobos

 

Donations received between July 1, 2024 and May 20, 2025

 

 

 

 

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