Sweet Geeks Foundation
Houston, TX · EIN 87-2094183. Reported 87 grants totalling $395,202 to 76 recipients across tax years 2022-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Sweet Geeks Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $3,250. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $5,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Arrow Colab | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Diy Girls | Pacoima, CA | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Patriots and Paws | Huntington Beach, CA | $15,001 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Artsup La | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| STEM Advantage | Huntington Beach, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Thomas House Temporary Shelter | Garden Grove, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Young Lives Redeemed | Fullerton, CA | $13,750 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Pathways to Independence | Huntington Beach, CA | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Laurel House Inchope Harbor | Tustin, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| P F Bresee Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 3 | 1 | 2025 |
| Rainbow Labs Mentoring Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Robyne's Nest | Huntington Beach, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Uncle Kory Foundation | El Segundo, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Urban Txt Teens Exploring Technology | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Krystie Gomes | Castro Valley, CA | $7,322 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Velma Mattey | Adelanto, CA | $6,096 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Walk With Sally | El Segundo, CA | $5,020 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Build Futures | Huntington Beach, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dreams for Schools | Santa Ana, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hack the Hood Inc | Oakland, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Youth Network La Youth Division of Adolescent Medicine | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Reading to Kids | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Sola I Can Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thinkwatts Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Unearth and Empower Communities | Compton, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aaiden Rico | Coachella, CA | $4,813 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yvonne Apodaca | Los Angeles, CA | $4,060 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Calibrate a Non-Profit Corporation | Pasadena, CA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sunnyside Fivesunnyside Baptist Church | Los Angeles, CA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore | Sylmar, CA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Scarlett Martinez | El Segundo, CA | $3,899 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hero for Kids Foundation | Anaheim, CA | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| My Sister's Keeper Success Institute Inc | Temecula, CA | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Impacto a Program of Proyecto Pastoral | Los Angeles, CA | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Valencia Caldwell | La Habra, CA | $3,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dennis Ray Jones JR | Antioch Ca USA, CA | $3,300 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center | Santa Ana, CA | $3,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Book Truck Inc | Long Beach, CA | $3,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hellen Jones Elbling | Venice, CA | $3,111 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Gilma Maricela Dominguez | Los Angeles, CA | $3,105 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cynthia Stevens Cantu | Riverside, CA | $3,100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beverly Shahid | Los Angeles, CA | $3,078 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adriana Espinoza Lion | Hemet, CA | $3,068 | 2 | 1 | 2025 |
| Javier Aviles | Rowland Heights, CA | $3,067 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Monique Maldonado | Riverside, CA | $3,035 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arlynda Munoz | San Bernardino, CA | $3,016 | 2 | 1 | 2025 |
| Connie Butsko | Murrieta, CA | $3,013 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Aria Estrada | San Bernardino, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bambi Lynn Anderson | Los Angeles, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cancer Kinship | Newport Beach, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cathrina Lowy | Panorama City, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Danielle Watkins | Los Angeles, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Debra Anne Adut | Sherman Oaks, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Erika Romain | Rancho Cucamonga, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hidden Genius Project | Inglewood, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Naomi Pawaan | San Diego, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| STEM to the Futureinner Spark Learning Lab | Los Angeles, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Valerie Martinez | Newport Beach, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sophia Orozco | Ojai, CA | $2,994 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Amaad Institute | Los Angeles, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bloom Foundation Inc | Irvine, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black La Relief & Recovery Fund | Los Angeles, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Color Compton Inc | Compton, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Education Throught Music-Los Angeles | Burbank, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Families Forward Learning Center | Pasadena, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Foster Love | Brea, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Las Fotos Project | Los Angeles, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lets Be Kind | Costa Mesa, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Partnership for Growth La | Los Angeles, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Resounding Joy Inc | San Diego, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Street Poets | Los Angeles, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Change Reaction | Sherman Oaks, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Diana Aldana | Los Angeles, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jasmine Roosendaal | Costa Mesa, CA | $1,704 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sebastian Lopez | Mentone, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
7 of 76 (9%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 0%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 40 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10 | $45,000 | $3,250 |
| 2023 | 19 | $96,878 | $4,813 |
| 2024 | 19 | $91,218 | $4,000 |
| 2025 | 39 | $162,106 | $2,994 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Sweet Geeks Foundation has 1 of them, worth $10,000. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas House Emergency Shelter | Garden Grove, CA | $10,000 |
Where its money goes
Get funders for your state and cause by email
We email you funders that gave to organizations in your state and cause, up to five at a time each week and never the same one twice, from their own IRS filings. Free. The weekly email has not started yet.
Unsubscribe in one click from any email. We never sell or share your address. To match on your organization and typical grant size too, keep a private profile.
Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,250. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Related guides
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Sweet Geeks Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2022-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 1321 Upland Dr Pmb 20169, Houston, TX, 77043. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
EIN 87-2094183 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
Is something here wrong about your foundation? Email [email protected] and we will correct it.