LOS ANGELES — Monte Factor, a Beverly Hills clothier and arts patron who co-founded the End Hunger Network and a groundbreaking Los Angeles child care center, died Dec. 5 at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center, his daughter Diane announced. He was 94.

With actor Jeff Bridges and others in the entertainment industry, Factor started the nonprofit End Hunger Network in 1983 to raise awareness of childhood hunger and help end it.

In 1977, Factor and his wife, Betty, established the Mar Vista Family Center near the Mar Vista Gardens housing project to provide low-income families with quality early childhood education. The center came to be regarded as a national model for early childhood development.

The couple were significant supporters of contemporary art in Los Angeles, often trading men’s clothes for artwork. In 1947, they started what became known as Monte Factor/Jerry Rothschild, a men’s clothing business in Beverly Hills. They owned it for more than 40 years.

The store was a full-service men’s haberdashery with a barbershop and bookie upstairs. Among his clients were many movie stars and gangsters, his family said, including the Marx brothers and Mickey Cohen.

The Pasadena Museum of Modern Art staged an exhibit in 1973 of 124 works owned by the Factors. The majority of the 55 artists represented were Californians.

Monte Montefiore Factor was born in 1917 in St. Louis. He was the son of Nathan Factor, an immigrant from Poland, and the nephew of makeup entrepreneur Max Factor. Monte Factor moved to Los Angeles with his family in the 1920s.