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Greater Palm Springs Tourism Foundation

To support issues pertaining to the tourism industry including but not limited to raising funds from the general public and other sources to carry on programs directly and to provide support and services related to the hospitality convention and tourism industries in the Greater Palm Springs region including but not limited to providing…

$303k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Community Improvement$806kEmployment$39kEducation$20kRecreation & Sports$6k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $186,141, the rows itemized in this filing. The $302,809 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $116,668 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$19,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$725k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
City of Palm Springs$50,000
City of Palm Desert$50,000
City of Desert Hot Springs$28,141
College of the Desert Foundation$19,500
CSUSB Philanthropic Foundation$11,000
Palm Springs Unified School District$10,000
Coachella Valley Unified School District$10,000
Desert Sands Unified School District$7,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%City of Palm Desert: $50k → 11%City of Palm Desert: $50k → 11%City of Palm Desert: $50k → 11%City of Rancho Mirage: $66k → 11%Palm Springs Unified School District: $10k → 11%College of the Desert Foundation: $20k → 11%City of Rancho Mirage: $50k → 11%CSUSB Philanthropic Foundation: $11k → 11%City of Palm Springs: $50k → 11%City of Palm Springs: $50k → 11%City of Cathedral City: $30k → 11%City of Desert Hot Springs: $28k → 11%City of Cathedral City: $9k → 11%City of Desert Hot Springs: $6k → 11%City of Indian Wells: $50k → 11%Cathedral City: $9k → 11%City of Desert Hot Springs: $6k → 11%City of Indian Wells: $50k → 11%City of La Quinta: $134k → 11%City of La Quinta: $50k → 11%Coachella Valley Unified School District: $10k → 11%City of Indio: $41k → 11%Desert Sands Unified School District: $8k → 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$512k · 5 repeat orgs$357k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$512k
$299k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CO
    City of La Quinta
    2× · 2023–2024 · $184k
  • CO
    City of Palm Desert
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k
  • CO
    City of Palm Springs
    2× · 2023–2025 · $100k

Funded once

  • CO
    City of Rancho Mirage
    one grant, 2024 · $66k
  • CO
    City of Indian Wells
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • CO
    City of Rancho Mirage
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
04the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
0/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of La Quinta: $183,750 · OtherCity of La QuintaCity of Palm Desert: $150,000 · OtherCity of Palm DesertCity of Palm Springs: $100,000 · OtherCity of Palm SpringsCity of Rancho Mirage: $66,250 · OtherCity of Rancho MirageCity of Indian Wells: $50,000 · OtherCity of Indian WellsCity of Rancho Mirage: $50,000 · OtherCity of Rancho MirageCity of Indian Wells: $49,643 · OtherCity of Indian WellsCITY OF INGLEWOOD: $41,401 · OtherCity of Desert Hot Springs: $39,641 · OtherCity of Cathedral City: $38,676 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $33,404 · Other+4 more: $36,250 · OtherCollege of the Desert Foundation: $19,500 · EducationCSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $11,000 · Philanthropy
Other$839,015Education$19,500Philanthropy$11,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCollege of the Desert Foundation: $19,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds College of the Desert Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Greater Palm Springs Tourism Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Palm Springs Tourism Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to Greater Palm Springs Tourism Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Greater Palm Springs Tourism Foundation 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 17 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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