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Desert Community Foundation

To encourage and facilitate charitable giving in our desert communities

$4.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.8MHuman Services$845kArts & Culture$593kYouth Development$533kAnimals$367kReligion$364kHealth$361kRecreation & Sports$307kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $947,735, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,856,241 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,908,506 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 $10k6 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $307k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $604k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOLLEYBALL NEWPORT BEACH INC$150,000
GALILEE CENTER$114,109
HOAG CHARITY SPORTS$100,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
VOICES FOR CHILDREN$57,178
ANIMAL SAMARITANS$54,853
EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION$52,635
MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN$34,044
CSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION$30,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA$29,211
HIDDEN HARVEST$26,433
PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM$26,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$25,000
MCCALLUM THEATRE$25,000
MNRJM INC$21,000
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $22k → 6%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $48k → 11%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $14k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT: $5k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT: $5k → 11%GALILEE CENTER: $114k → 11%GALILEE CENTER: $88k → 11%GALILEE CENTER: $15k → 11%RANCHO 3 AGAVEZ DE CIELO AZUL: $7k → 11%HIDDEN HARVEST: $35k → 11%HIDDEN HARVEST: $26k → 11%HIDDEN HARVEST: $20k → 11%HIDDEN HARVEST: $10k → 11%HIDDEN HARVEST: $10k → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $156k → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $120k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN: $34k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN: $26k → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $22k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN: $22k → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $19k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $11k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE INDIO SENIOR CENTER: $11k → 11%REFUGE PREGNANCY CENTER: $5k → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $20k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $2k → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $18k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE INDIO SENIOR CENTER: $550 → 11%GALILEE CENTER: $13k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $550 → 11%GALILEE CENTER: $12k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $470 → 11%REGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION: $125k → 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $18k → 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $17k → 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $13k → 11%DESERT BEST FRIENDS CLOSET: $6k → 11%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $5k → 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
ND
IL
WI
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
AZ
NM
KS
TX
FL
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 69 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
112

Total granted

$4.5M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+19%

Still filing today

70%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $475k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CV
    COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $356k · revenue +140%
  • GC
    GALILEE CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +730%
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    6× · 2018–2025 · $208k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN BERNARDINO
    one grant, 2018 · $345k
  • CP
    CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $255k · revenue -4%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $208k
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
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…

Education
2
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
3
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
6
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
7
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
8
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
9
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
10
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
11
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education
12
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State University San Marcos Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mary Bremer Foundation. 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

103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 200 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/103
Grantees still filing
77/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN BERNARDINO: $345,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN BERNARDINOIndividual grant recipient: $207,558 · OtherIndividual grant recipientREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $185,650 · OtherLONGYEAR MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $170,783 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE: $152,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $140,000 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $143,287 · Other+122 more: $2,500,942 · Other+122 moreCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $255,247 · EducationCALIFORNIA POLYTE…The Principia Corporation: $170,783 · EducationThe Principia Cor…UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $78,135 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RED…CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC: $69,000 · EducationCAL POLY POMONA F…SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $63,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION: $50,600 · EducationUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $46,400 · EducationAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION: $43,048 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $42,405 · Education+23 more: $329,182 · Education+23 moreCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $355,504 · Human ServicesCOACHELLA VALLEY…GALILEE CENTER INC: $254,439 · Human ServicesGALILEE CENTER I…REGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION: $124,801 · Human ServicesREGIONAL ACCESS …MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $95,997 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VILLAGE…FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $75,125 · Human ServicesFAMILY YMCA OF T…HIDDEN HARVEST CORPORATION: $66,723 · Human ServicesHIDDEN HARVEST C…GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $62,000 · Human ServicesGRAND CANYON UNI…+10 more: $87,801 · Human Services+10 moreEisenhower Medical Center: $207,502 · HealthHOAG CHARITY SPORTS: $100,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $94,000 · HealthCoachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine: $49,574 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $28,000 · HealthDESERT CANCER FOUNDATION: $18,547 · Health+3 more: $26,179 · HealthBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE DES: $380,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY: $58,131 · Youth Development+2 more: $6,532 · Youth DevelopmentAnimal Samaritans: $153,574 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $145,949 · AnimalsSARAS SANCTUARY: $42,309 · AnimalsADVENTURE UNLIMITED: $170,783 · Recreation & SportsVOLLEYBALL NEWPORT BEACH INC: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsTRADITION GOLF CLUB: $12,825 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,730 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,845,220Education$1,247,800Human Services$1,122,390Health$523,802Youth Development$444,663Animals$341,832Recreation & Sports$339,338

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 budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE DES: $380,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $355,504 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $255,247 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGALILEE CENTER INC: $254,439 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $207,502 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Principia Corporation: $170,783 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADVENTURE UNLIMITED: $170,783 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAnimal Samaritans: $153,574 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetVOLLEYBALL NEWPORT BEACH INC: $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $145,949 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $143,287 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetREGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION: $124,801 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $95,997 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $94,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $93,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetXAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL: $81,700 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $78,135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $76,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $75,125 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC: $69,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIDDEN HARVEST CORPORATION: $66,723 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $63,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $62,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY: $58,131 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $54,005 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION: $50,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCoachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine: $49,574 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetPasadena Conservatory of Music: $47,942 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $46,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION: $43,048 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $42,405 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSARAS SANCTUARY: $42,309 over 2y, 31% of budgetCONSERVATION NW: $42,309 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSan Diego Film Foundation: $38,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS GLOBAL: $32,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRead With Me Volunteer Programs: $28,492 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetWE CAN FISH INCORPORATED: $28,055 over 2y, 16% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMIZELL CENTER: $26,855 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $23,962 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY JOURNALISM FOUNDATION: $21,625 over 1y, 25% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY: $20,024 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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.

HN and Frances C Berg…Inland Empire Communi…Bighorn Golf Club Cha…The Champions Volunte…Houston Family Founda…The Auen FoundationThe Coeta and Donald …Regional Access Proje…Anderson Childrens Fo…The Grace Helen Spear…Impact Through Golf F…Eisenhower Medical Ce…
HN and Frances C Berger FoundationCA58.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Desert Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Desert Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 200 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home