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Lift to Rise

LIFT TO RISE is the backbone of a coalition of more than 70 partners carrying out a bold plan to increase housing affordability in the coachella valley. We bring together local governments, affordable housing developers, community groups, and resident leaders to solve the challenges that slow affordable housing production so the…

$750k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
4
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$300,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$350,012
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$22M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Lift to Rise funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20214$750k100%
FY20201$664kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Philanthropy$664kCrime & Legal$350kFood & Nutrition$300kHousing & Shelter$100k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of the Desert$663,800134%
Todec Legal Center Perris$350,01217%
Vision y Compromiso$300,00013%
Rural Community Assistance Corporation$75,00010%
The Coachella Valley Housing Coalition$25,00010%

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.

The California EndowmentCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · 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.

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About Lift to Rise

How much does Lift to Rise give?
Lift to Rise reported 4 grants totaling $750,012 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Lift to Rise fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (47%), Crime & Legal (25%), Food & Nutrition (21%).
Who are Lift to Rise's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: United Way of the Desert ($664k), Todec Legal Center Perris ($350k), Vision y Compromiso ($300k).
Does Lift to Rise fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lift to Rise?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The California Endowment, The California Wellness Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Lift to Rise based?
Lift to Rise is based in CA.

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 5 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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