· Private foundation
The Champions Volunteer Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $138k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $313k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVERSIDE COUNTY PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTER'S BENEVOLENT FUND | $100,000 |
| RIVERSIDE COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S RELIEF FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ARMED SERVICES YMCA 29 PALMS - 2010 | $40,000 |
| SHELTER FROM THE STORM | $25,000 |
| MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN | $20,000 |
| JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| COACHELLA VALLEY MOUNTED RANGERS | $18,000 |
| FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT | $15,000 |
| FIND FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PALM SPRINGS ANIMAL SHELTER | $10,000 |
| FENIXIA FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE DESERT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DESERT CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MIZELL SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $365k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of The Champions Volunteer Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 79%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
63 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 8 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SHELTER FROM THE STORM INC5× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +60%- MVMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC5× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +226%
- LLLOVE & LOVE TENNIS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- NJNATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS & LEARNINGone grant, 2017 · $10k
- VIVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- LBLifeStream Blood Bankone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +3%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide shelter and counseling for victims of domestic violence in the Barstow area.
We foster reverence for life, relief of suffering, and compassion in loss for the terminally ill residents and their families in the communities we serve.
To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.
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 provides residential and vocation support to persons with developmental disabilities.
Provide senior citizens with nutritional meals onsight and by delivery to homebound seniors. To operate a children's center providing services to children and families of Borrego Springs that combat educational inequality, poverty and food…
The SCVCOA and the Senior Center currently serves more than 10,000 individuals annually through varied programming for the Santa Clarita Valley and Antelope Valley that includes but is not limited to: congregate and home delivered meals…
Senior concerns' mission is to provide programs and services which support and improve the health, well-being and quality of life for seniors and family caregivers.
The specific purpose of the AIDS Assistance Program is supplying nutritional support to low-income men, women, and children living with HIV/AIDS and other life threatening illnesses.
The coachella valley chapter of the community associations institute ("cai - cv") serves the educational, business and networking needs of community associations in the coachella valley region of southern california.
Cancer support community valley/ventura/santa barbaras mission is to uplift and strengthen people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
How this is measured
62 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. 62 of the 86 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COUNTY PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF RELIEF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FROM THE STORM INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE & LOVE TENNIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds Coachella Valley Mounted Rangers ↗
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE DES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SONGSHINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Stroke Recovery Center dba Neuro Vitality Center ↗
- Who funds DESERT CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds Angel View Inc ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Variety Childrens Charities of the Desert Tent 66 ↗
- Who funds MIZELL CENTER ↗
- Who funds DESERT BEST FRIENDS CLOSET ↗
- Who funds Food Now Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds LOVING ALL ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds Harper For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GALILEE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds DESERT ARC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Childrens Services of the Desert ↗
- Who funds Cove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Palm SpringsAnimal Shelter ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Regional Access Project Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · Desert Community Foundation · The Auen Foundation · Impact Through Golf Foundation · Coachella Valley Wellness Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Champions Volunteer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Champions Volunteer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Autism Society of America Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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