California · Community foundation
Imperial Valley Community Foundation
To Champion local philanthropy to benefit the Imperial Valley community by helping donors fulfill their philanthropic goals while preserving enduring charitable assets forever.
- $455k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 70%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $360k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 10
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 70% of the organizations Imperial Valley Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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 | 16 | $360k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $181k | 70% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $123k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $57k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $75k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autism Imperial County | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Calipatria Unified School Dis | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pacific Coast Conservation Alliance | $89,578 | 5 | 33% |
| Republic Services Inc | $69,312 | 4 | n/a |
| Imperial Valley College Foundation | $39,751 | 3 | 4% |
| Imperial Valley Food Bank | $32,365 | 1 | 0% |
| Imperial Valley Trails and Land Conservancy | $29,028 | 2 | n/a |
| Imperial Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce | $24,979 | 1 | 9% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Imperial County | $24,900 | 3 | 2% |
| Imperial Unified School District | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autism Imperial County | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Calipatria Unified School Dis | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pacific Coast Conservation Alliance | $89,578 | 5 | 33% |
| Republic Services Inc | $69,312 | 4 | n/a |
| Imperial Valley College Foundation | $39,751 | 3 | 4% |
| Imperial Valley Food Bank | $32,365 | 1 | 0% |
| Imperial Valley Trails and Land Conservancy | $29,028 | 2 | n/a |
| Imperial Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce | $24,979 | 1 | 9% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Imperial County | $24,900 | 3 | 2% |
| Imperial Unified School District | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Grand Canyon University | $18,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Imperial County Historical Society | $17,600 | 2 | 2% |
| California State Polytechnic University Pomona | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Diego State University | $14,050 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Calipatria | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Soroptimist International of El Centro | $10,000 | 1 | 23% |
| Imperial County Public Health | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Imperial Valley Desert Museum Society Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Imperial Valley | $8,860 | 1 | 3% |
| Mom-Sense Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Best Step Forward | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Little League Baseball Inc | $5,750 | 1 | n/a |
| University of California Davis | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Heber Elementary School District | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Imperial Valley Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 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.
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How this is measured
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About Imperial Valley Community Foundation
- How much does Imperial Valley Community Foundation give?
- Imperial Valley Community Foundation reported 16 itemized grants totaling $359,837, out of $454,661 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Imperial Valley Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Environment (16%), Health (13%).
- Who are Imperial Valley Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Autism Imperial County ($100k), Calipatria Unified School Dis ($100k), Pacific Coast Conservation Alliance ($90k).
- Does Imperial Valley Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Imperial Valley Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Citizens Energy Corporation, Berkshire Hathaway Energy Foundation.
- Where is Imperial Valley Community Foundation based?
- Imperial Valley Community Foundation is based in CA.
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