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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.

$174k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$279kHealth$272kEducation$202kEnvironment$174kHuman Services$157kCommunity Improvement$148kPhilanthropy$75kArts & Culture$69kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $161,282, the rows itemized in this filing. The $173,782 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$60,182
BVA$31,700
CHILDREN CENTER (BS SENIOR CTR)$20,000
BASIC SUMMER READING PROGRAM$20,000
BORREGO MINISTERS ASSOCIATION$10,000
BORREGO SPRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL$9,700
BS FILM FESTIVAL$9,700
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $60k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 11%LET'S GO BORREGO: $37k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$957k · 11 repeat orgs$443k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$957k
$434k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+28%

Still filing today

73%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BS
    Borrego Springs Youth and Senior Center
    7× · 2018–2025 · $220k · revenue +349% · 44% of their budget
  • BA
    BASIC ASSISTANCE TO STUDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $154k · revenue +244%
  • BS
    BORREGO SPRINGS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
    2× · 2019–2022 · $18k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • BS
    Borrego Sp Fire Protect Distr
    one grant, 2022 · $189k
  • FO
    Friends of Borrego Springs Library
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -92%
  • DH
    DAP Health Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $58k · revenue +28%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Borrego Festivals Foundation

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,…

Recreation & Sports
2
Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Asso

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.

Environment
3
Under the Sun Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Desert Spring Community Resource Center
Public Benefit
5
Borrego Animal Rescue

Improve conditions, and provide care for all the cats

Animals
6
Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum
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7
California Desert Arts Council Llc
Arts & Culture
8
Anza-Borrego Foundation

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.

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9
San Bernardino Valley Concert Association
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10
San Diego County Philatelic Council

To promote stamp collecting

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11
Blind Community Center of San Diego

Provide recreation, social, and educational activities for blind and visually impaired persons.

—
12
Santa Ynez Valley Botanic Garden Foundation Inc

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,…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Borrego Art Institute; 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.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Borrego Springs Youth and Senior Center: $220,209 · OtherBorrego Springs Youth and Senior CenterBorrego Sp Fire Protect Distr: $188,826 · OtherBorrego Sp Fire Protect DistrBORREGO SPRINGS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $52,800 · OtherBORREGO SPRINGS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTBorrego Water District: $43,384 · OtherBorrego Water DistrictBorrego Ministry Association: $40,600 · OtherBorrego Ministry AssociationSAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION: $28,000 · Other+8 more: $102,030 · Other+8 moreBASIC ASSISTANCE TO STUDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY: $153,850 · Public BenefitBASIC ASSISTANCE TO…Civicwell: $88,000 · Public BenefitCivicwellBORREGO VILLAGE ASSOCIATION: $158,328 · Community ImprovementBORREGO VILL…BORREGO SPRINGS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $147,233 · Human ServicesBORREGO SPR…Friends of Borrego Springs Library: $75,000 · PhilanthropyDAP Health Inc: $58,000 · HealthBorrego Art Institute: $20,100 · Arts & CultureBorrego Springs Music Festival Corp: $14,700 · Arts & CultureBorrego Springs Film Institute Inc: $9,700 · Arts & Culture
Other$675,849Public Benefit$241,850Community Improvement$158,328Human Services$147,233Philanthropy$75,000Health$58,000Arts & Culture$44,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBorrego Springs Youth and Senior Center: $220,209 over 7y, 44% of budgetBORREGO VILLAGE ASSOCIATION: $158,328 over 5y, 54% of budgetBASIC ASSISTANCE TO STUDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY: $153,850 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetBORREGO SPRINGS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $147,233 over 2y, 39% of budgetCivicwell: $88,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of Borrego Springs Library: $75,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetDAP Health Inc: $58,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION: $28,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBorrego Art Institute: $20,100 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBORREGO MINISTERS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetBORREGO SPRINGS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $18,297 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetBorrego Springs Music Festival Corp: $14,700 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA INVASIVE PLANT COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBorrego Springs Film Institute Inc: $9,700 over 1y, 11% of budgetChristmas Circle Community Park: $5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Diego Foundat…Alphonse a Burnand Me…Sandra a Hansberger F…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Borrego Valley Endowment Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Borrego Valley Endowment Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Borrego Valley Endowment Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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