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What has the City paid on purchase order GAENV56CF23CF971776M?

$1.38M paid to 256 different vendors (the largest, About My Father's Business Homeless Outreach, received $105.0K) across 346 payments from August 8, 2022 to July 15, 2025, charged to Non-Departmental / Community Services District 14.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

256 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $1.4M above is the whole order, not the spend of whichever vendor you arrived from. The City uses these for standing arrangements like outside counsel, library materials and expert witnesses. Per-vendor amounts are below.

What it was for

Community Services District 14

Budget line carrying the most money, of 15 this order is charged to.

Order description, as published:

FMS OPEN ENCUMBRANCES

Approval records

Order dated July 1, 2022.

Paid from

General Fund

discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.

Department: Non-Departmental

Paid to

Showing the 25 largest of 256 vendors on this order.

About My Father's Business Homeless Outreach$105K · 2 payments
Earth Angels Nonprofit Organization$65K · 2 payments
Chefs Supporting Chefs Inc$60K · 12 payments
Hurting and Hungry Charity$40K · 1 payment
Foundation for Economic & Social Justice$23K · 5 payments
Friends of Westwood Recreation Complex$20K · 4 payments
Alma Family Services$20K · 4 payments
Opencollective Foundation$18K · 4 payments
Los Angeles Unified School District$16K · 4 payments
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools$15K · 3 payments
Barrio Action Youth and Family Center$15K · 3 payments
Art Share Los Angeles Inc$15K · 3 payments
Wok Star Inc$14K · 3 payments
Woods Maintenance Services Inc$13K · 3 payments
Students Run America$12K · 6 payments
Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust$11K · 3 payments
American Diabetes Association$10K · 2 payments
Reach Our Community Kids$10K · 2 payments
Art Active Inc.$10K · 2 payments
North East Trees Inc$10K · 2 payments
Hummingbird Hope LA$10K · 2 payments
Comite Mexicano Civico Patriotico De Los Angeles Inc$10K · 2 payments
Emerson Avenue Community Garden Club, Inc$10K · 2 payments
The Giving Spirit$10K · 2 payments
St. Francis Center$10K · 2 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 346 payments totalling $1.4M, an average of $3,974. At that volume it is a standing arrangement drawn down continuously rather than a sequence of milestones, so individual payments are not listed.

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), read live and grouped by po_num, which is populated on about 90% of payments. Council files link to the City Clerk's Council File Management System. The City's biggest contracts · The checkbook.