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What has the City paid on purchase order GAENV56CF26CF971776M?

$1.16M paid to 227 different vendors (the largest, Initiating Change in Our Neighborhoods Community Development, received $50.0K) across 292 payments from July 2, 2025 to September 8, 2026, charged to Non-Departmental / Community Services District 3.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

227 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $1.2M 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 3

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 2, 2025.

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 227 vendors on this order.

Initiating Change in Our Neighborhoods Community Development$50K · 2 payments
Asian American Drug Abuse Program Inc$30K · 2 payments
Woodland Hills-Tarzana Chamber of Commerce$26K · 2 payments
Woodland Hills Tarzana Chamber of Commerce$25K · 1 payment
Y M C a of Metropolitan Los Angeles /C$25K · 1 payment
24th Street Theatre Company$25K · 1 payment
Onegeneration$25K · 1 payment
Nize Inc.$25K · 1 payment
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treat$23K · 2 payments
Hit and Run Inc$21K · 1 payment
New Economics for Women /C$20K · 1 payment
And Sportswear Inc$19K · 1 payment
Sang Hee Seo$19K · 2 payments
Fire Grazers Inc$19K · 1 payment
Structural Focus, Inc$15K · 1 payment
Tarzana Community & Cultural Center$15K · 1 payment
Alexia Veytia-Rubio$13K · 9 payments
LA Plaza De Cultura Y Artes$13K · 1 payment
Debbie Allen Dance Inc$13K · 1 payment
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation$13K · 3 payments
Getty House Foundation$12K · 4 payments
Northeast Graffiti Busters$11K · 1 payment
Los Angeles Parks Foundation$11K · 3 payments
Picturethisboothla LLC$10K · 3 payments
Helping Hands Resource Center Inc$10K · 1 payment

Payment volume

This order carries 292 payments totalling $1.2M, an average of $3,979. 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.