· Community foundation
Inland Empire Community Foundation
Strengthening the Inland Empire through Philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 266 grants below total $28,176,724 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $29,894,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,718,176 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $298k
- $10k–50k132 grants · $2.4M
- $50k–250k65 grants · $5.9M
- $250k+26 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| San Antonio Food Bank | $5,000,000 |
| Oregon Food Bank | $5,000,000 |
| Desert Scholarship Foundation | $1,024,958 |
| JobWorks Education and Training Systems | $746,646 |
| Inland Empire Labor Institute | $723,274 |
| UC Regents UC Riverside | $598,630 |
| Blu Educational Foundation | $506,800 |
| SeaShare | $500,000 |
| Feeding the Gulf Coast | $499,261 |
| People's Collective for Environmental Justice | $427,500 |
| Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement | $401,300 |
| Arts Connection The Arts Council for San Bernardino | $392,500 |
| Idyllwild Help Center | $345,667 |
| Inland Congregations United For Change | $322,300 |
| Vitamin Angel Alliance Inc | $300,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $13.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Inland Empire Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +61% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
418 repeat relationships — 172 still active in FY2024, 246 since wound down; 77 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M 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
- SASAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK5× · 2018–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +40%
OREGON FOOD BANK5× · 2018–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +62%- ACALTURA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $5.7M · revenue +74% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +37%
- FOFRIENDS OF MY FAMILYone grant, 2020 · $1.1M · revenue -208%
- COCITY OF FULLERTONone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
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.
To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.
We exist to support our membership and community parnters to ensure acessible high-quality, and cost-effictve health services.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
The mission of the interfaith food center is to provide nutritious food to our neighbors in an environment that nurtures dignitiy and respect.
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is a regional chamber formed in 2016 to support a diverse business community that spans nearly forty-five miles and serves the needs of nearly 500,000 visitors each year. As a business…
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
Inland Counties Legal Services (ICLS) mission is to pursue justice and equality for low-income individuals through counsel, advice, advocacy, and community education, treating all with dignity and respect. Over the last six decades, ICLS…
The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.
Aims to reduce countywide homelessness while addressing each family's personal struggle with perpetuating homelessness and poverty in their children. Provides both transitional shelter and rapid re-housing options in addition to…
Our mission is to provide food, nutritional education, and advocacy for those in need within san benito county, while pursuing our ultimate vision that no resident will suffer from hunger or malnutrition in san benito county.
IBHS is dedicated to helping the community achieve and maintain general good health, education and welfare through commitment in providing excellent service in the areas of physical health care, substance abuse treatment, mental health…
With compassion, collaboration and commitment to action, vic provides services and program that engage and enrich the lives of older adults, families, and youth through a lens of inclusion to strengthen diverse communities in the valley
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Casa Blanca Home of Neighborly Service and the most unlike its peers is Women Achieving Success. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
970 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. 970 of the 1,201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALTURA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FONTANA FOUNDATION OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA ↗
- Who funds SAN BERNARDINO RIVERSIDE COUNTIES UNION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds JURUPA MOUNTAINS CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLU Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds MIZELL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Inland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds SEASHARE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATIONS ORGANIZED FOR PROPHETIC ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds Warehouse Worker Resource Center ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Action Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MY FAMILY ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Neuro Vitality Foundation ↗
- Who funds Time For Change Foundation ↗
- Who funds Stroke Recovery Center dba Neuro Vitality Center ↗
- Who funds UNITED NETWORK FOR ORGAN SHARING ↗
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: Regional Access Project Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Anderson Childrens Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · IEHP Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · Inland Southern California United Way · The Auen Foundation · Western Wind 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 Inland Empire 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.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
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.