Disaster Relief

The Annenberg Foundation bolsters emergency and disaster relief throughout Los Angeles and other areas, supporting agencies and organizations through response and recovery efforts after devastating wildfires and more.

Supporting First Responders and the Most Vulnerable

Our work to extend immediate relief to the most impacted reaches many community-based organizations and includes the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation

In 2025, Foundation Chair Wallis Annenberg and Directors Lauren Bon, Charles Annenberg Weingarten and Gregory Weingarten, along with the Foundation’s community grantmaking team, committed $3.175 million to more than 50 nonprofit community partners in the weeks following fatal fires in the Palisades and Altadena – including an emergency $1 million grant to the LAFD Foundation in collaboration with the Wasserman Foundation. Learn More
In 2017, 2019 and 2021, the Foundation supported several wildfire recovery efforts. Learn More from Grow
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Countering COVID

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the Annenberg Foundation worked to ensure that older adults were vaccinated as soon as vaccines became available, establishing centers at the former Annenberg Space for Photography, and pop-up clinics in Koreatown and South Los Angeles in partnership with the LAFD and others. The Foundation also donated hundreds of iPads to Los Angeles County hospitals to enable isolated patients to communicate with their loved ones.

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Leadership in Philanthropy

Recognizing a widespread consequence of the pandemic – hunger and nutrition insecurity particularly among Black and Hispanic Angelenos – the Annenberg Foundation co-chaired the Los Angeles County Food Equity Roundtable — a coalition of government, philanthropic and nonprofit organizations dedicated to resolving chronic inequities in the LA County food system. This resulted in the first-ever LA County Office of Food Systems, using the Food Equity Roundtable’s comprehensive and integrated plan as a roadmap.

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