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Growing Inland Achievement

GROWING INLAND ACHIEVEMENT (gia) is a regional, collective impact organization that works to achieve educational and economic equity in the inland empire.

$228k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$910kPhilanthropy$15k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $65,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $227,868 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $162,868 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRAFTON HILLS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$30,000
VICTOR VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$20,000
CSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION$5,000
SANTOS MANUEL STUDENT UNION$5,000
INLAND EMPIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ONE FUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY: $10k → 11%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN BERNARDINO: $125k → 14%NORTHWEST COMMISSION ON COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $46k → 9%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $14k → 11%SAN BERNARDINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $126k → 14%INLAND EMPIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT NORCO COLLEGE: $40k → 11%SAN BERNARDINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $100k → 14%INLAND EMPIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SANTOS MANUEL STUDENT UNION: $5k → 14%PALO VERDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $20k → 11%BARSTOW COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $75k → 14%BARSTOW COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $50k → 14%ONTARIO-MONTCLAIR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%BLU EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%CRAFTON HILLS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%VICTOR VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $20k → 14%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
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
The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College

The sbcc foundation fuels the excellence of santa barbara city college by engaging the community, building relationships, and inviting the generosity of donors. the resources raised and managed by the foundation enrich college programs,…

Education
2
Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation

To accept and manage restricted and unrestricted gifts benefiting california state university east bay. additionally, the trustees support the university through advocacy, development, personal contributions and counsel to the university's…

Education
3
College Futures Foundation
Public Benefit
4
Foundation for California Community Colleges

The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.

Education
5
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
6
Student Senate for California Community Colleges

To pursue policies that will improve student access, promote student success, engage and empower local student leaders, and enrich the collegiate experience for all of the california community college students.

Education
7
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
8
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
9
Long Beach City College Foundation

The foundation's specific and primary purposes are to promote the general welfare of long beach city college by assisting and supporting the attainment of educational, athletic, and cultural goals; by assisting it in fulfilling its role of…

Education
10
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
11
Cabrillo College Foundation

To provide private support for student scholarships, emergency financial support to increase student success, innovative mentoring, and support for youth to attend college and support for academic programs and facilities.

Education
12
Southwestern College Foundation

Southwestern College Foundation is dedicated to raising friends and funds that support all aspects of educational advancement at Southwestern College.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University Enterprises Corporation At Csusb; the most unlike its peers is Barstow College 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

14 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. 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES CORPORATION AT CSUSB: $125,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES CORPORATION AT CSUSBRIVERSIDE COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $123,911 · EducationRIVERSIDE COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION FOUNDATIONONTARIO-MONTCLAIR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationONTARIO-MONTCLAIR SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONBarstow College Foundation: $50,000 · EducationBarstow College FoundationNorthwest Commission on Colleges and Universities: $46,060 · EducationNorthwest Commission on Colleges and UniversitiesNATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE: $30,370 · EducationNATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSECRAFTON HILLS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationCRAFTON HILLS COLLEGE FOUNDATION+3 more: $30,000 · Education+3 moreSAN BERNARDINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $225,500 · OtherSAN BERNARDINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTBARSTOW CCD: $75,000 · OtherBARSTOW CCDRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $53,997 · OtherRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATIONVICTOR VALLEY CCD: $20,000 · OtherPalo Verde College Foundation: $20,000 · OtherInland Empire Community Foundation: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$510,341Other$394,497Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES CORPORATION AT CSUSB: $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRIVERSIDE COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $123,911 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetONTARIO-MONTCLAIR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $53,997 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBarstow College Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNorthwest Commission on Colleges and Universities: $46,060 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE: $30,370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRAFTON HILLS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPalo Verde College Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetInland Empire Community Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLU Educational Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSANTOS MANUEL STUDENT UNION OF CSUSB: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 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.

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.

Inland Empire Communi…Foundation for Califo…The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
Inland Empire Community FoundationCA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inland Empire Community Foundation · Foundation for California Community Colleges · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Growing Inland Achievement funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Growing Inland Achievement. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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