· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $359,837 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $454,661 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $94,824 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Calipatria Unified School Dis | $100,000 |
| Autism Support of Imperial Co | $100,000 |
| Imperial Valley College Found | $23,920 |
| Imperial Valley Trails & Land | $18,707 |
| Pacific Coast Conservation Al | $17,660 |
| California Polytechnic State | $15,000 |
| City of Calipatria | $12,500 |
| Grand Canyon University | $10,000 |
| Imp County Historical Society | $10,000 |
| Imperial Unified School Distr | $10,000 |
| CASA of Imperial County | $9,800 |
| San Diego State University | $8,750 |
| San Diego State Research Foun | $7,000 |
| Imperial Valley Challenger LL | $5,750 |
| University of Calif - Davis | $5,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PCPACIFIC COAST CONSERVATION ALLIANCE5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +62% · 33% of their budget
- IVImperial Valley College Foundation3× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +118%
- CACourt Appointed Special Advocates of Imperial County3× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- CUCalipatria Unified School Disone grant, 2024 · $60k
- CHCalipatria High Schoolone grant, 2024 · $43k
- IVIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANKone grant, 2023 · $32k · revenue -10%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
IVWF partners with local non-profit organizations to address pressing health issues for Imperial County's most vulnerable populations. IVWF provides funding for efforts addressing healthy eating, active living: community prevention linked…
IRA has a mission to improve the quality of life of low to moderate income populations of Imperial Valley by providing a link between education, job training and employment opportunities. This organization develops and pursues initiatives…
To Champion local philanthropy to benefit the Imperial Valley community by helping donors fulfill their philanthropic goals while preserving enduring charitable assets forever.
The core purpose of IVAR is to help its members become more professional and profitable, while promoting and protecting real property rights.
The United Way of Imperial County raises money in Imperial County from People in the work place, businesses, and individuals to help support agencies that serve the community.
The Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Collective creates a safe space for immigrant youth to express themselves and achieve their full potential and their identity that intersects with being undocumented. Through grassroots organizing, our…
The imperial valley economic development corporation's mission is marketing of imperial county as a region to attract new business and industry. increasing capital investment, local commerce, employment and tax revenue. maintaining a…
Ierbc: support improved broadband, smart community strategies, and bridging the digital divide. this includes outreach, collaboration, and engagement with community stakeholders, businesses, government, and other groups
Connect and empower immigrants with resources to achieve legal documentation, fullfill their economic needs, and integrate into the community
Business and Civic Promotion for the businesses and residents of the City of Irwindale, CA
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Imperial Valley and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Coast Conservation Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PACIFIC COAST CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Imperial Valley College Foundation ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL VALLEY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Imperial County ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL VALLEY DESERT MUSEUM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Soroptimist International of El Centro ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF IMPERIAL VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEST STEP FORWARD ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Citizens Energy Corporation · Berkshire Hathaway Energy Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Imperial Valley Community Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.