· Public charity
Borrego Valley Endowment Fund Inc
To operate a community foundation that grants financial support to charitable programs specifically including but not limited to charitable, cultural, scientific, literary, civic, health and/or educational programs within the borrego valley.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $161,282 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $173,782 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $60,182 |
| BVA | $31,700 |
| BASIC SUMMER READING PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN CENTER (BS SENIOR CTR) | $20,000 |
| BORREGO MINISTERS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| BS FILM FESTIVAL | $9,700 |
| BORREGO SPRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL | $9,700 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BSBorrego Springs Youth and Senior Center7× · 2018–2025 · $220k · revenue +349% · 44% of their budget
- BABASIC ASSISTANCE TO STUDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY7× · 2018–2025 · $154k · revenue +244%
- BSBORREGO SPRINGS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER2× · 2019–2022 · $18k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- BSBorrego Sp Fire Protect Distrone grant, 2022 · $189k
- FOFriends of Borrego Springs Libraryone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -92%
- DHDAP Health Incgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $58k · revenue +28%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Borrego Festivals Foundation has been created as a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation with the educational and charitable purpose of funding, organizing, and promoting sports and recreation, visual and performing arts,…
We are dedicated to educational, scientific, historic and interpretive endeavors that enhance the public understanding, awareness, knowledge, and appreciation of the natural and cultural resources of the Anza-Borrego Desert region.
Improve conditions, and provide care for all the cats
Our mission is to protect and preserve the natural landscapes, wildlife habitat and cultural heritage of anza-borrego desert state park and its surrounding region for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations.
To promote stamp collecting
Provide recreation, social, and educational activities for blind and visually impaired persons.
The mission of the Santa Ynez Botanic Garden Foundation is to provide a unique, accessible and interactive environment, highlighting plants native to the Santa Ynez River Watershed. The garden will encourage community collaboration,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Borrego Art Institute and the most unlike its peers is Civicwell. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Borrego Springs Youth and Senior Center ↗
- Who funds BORREGO VILLAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BASIC ASSISTANCE TO STUDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds BORREGO SPRINGS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Civicwell ↗
- Who funds Friends of Borrego Springs Library ↗
- Who funds DAP Health Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION ↗
- Who funds Borrego Art Institute ↗
- Who funds BORREGO MINISTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BORREGO SPRINGS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Borrego Springs Music Festival Corp ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INVASIVE PLANT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Borrego Springs Film Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Christmas Circle Community Park ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Alphonse a Burnand Medical and Educational Foundation · Sandra a Hansberger Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Borrego Valley Endowment Fund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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