California · Community foundation
Desert Community Foundation
To encourage and facilitate charitable giving in our desert communities
- $4.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $948k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 75
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $60M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Desert Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $948k | 52% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $672k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $207k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $386k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $393k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $798k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $537k | 76% |
| FY2018 | 75 | $2.3M | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Des | $380,000 | 4 | 28% |
| Coachella Valley Rescue Mission | $355,504 | 6 | 1% |
| California State University San Bernardino | $345,000 | 1 | n/a |
| California Polytechnic State University Foundation | $255,247 | 1 | 0% |
| Galilee Center Inc | $254,439 | 6 | 1% |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $207,502 | 6 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | $185,650 | 2 | n/a |
| The Principia Corporation | $170,783 | 1 | 0% |
| Adventure Unlimited | $170,783 | 1 | 2% |
| Animal Samaritans | $153,574 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 140 grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Desert Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 91 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · The Auen Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Regional Access Project Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · Impact Through Golf Foundation · Eisenhower Medical Center
How this is measured
About Desert Community Foundation
- How much does Desert Community Foundation give?
- Desert Community Foundation reported 27 itemized grants totaling $947,735, out of $4,856,241 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 75 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Desert Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Human Services (11%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Desert Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Des ($380k), Coachella Valley Rescue Mission ($356k), California State University San Bernardino ($345k).
- Does Desert Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Desert Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include HN and Frances C Berger Foundation, Inland Empire Community Foundation, Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc.
- Where is Desert Community Foundation based?
- Desert Community Foundation is based in CA.
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