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The Irma Ceunis and

Woodland, CA · EIN 68-0441999. Reported 38 grants totalling $575,000 to 23 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$575,000granted, 2021-2024
23recipients, as named on its returns
54%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,111,007assets, latest filing

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. The Irma Ceunis and did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $8,500 and $20,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $65,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
4 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
20 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
FFA BoosterWoodland, CA$117,000442024
Cowboy Wresting Club IncStillwater, OK$65,000112024
National Wresting Hall of FameStillwater, OK$50,000112023
Yolo Basin FoundationDavis, CA$35,000332023
Short Term Emergency Aid CommitteeDavis, CA$30,000332023
K&k Animal RescueHillister, TX$25,000222024
The Center for Land Based LearningWoodland, CA$25,000112024
Woodland Healthcare FoundationWooldand, CA$25,000112022
Yolo County Spay & Neuter GroWoodlandc, CA$25,000112021
Childrens HopeYuba City, CA$22,500222023
All Leaders Must ServeWoodland, CA$20,000222023
Oklahoma State UniversityStillwater, OK$20,000222022
Yolo Food BankWoodland, CA$20,000112022
George Town RotaryGeorgetown, CA$17,500332023
Empower YoloWoodland, CA$10,000112023
Empoyer YoloWoodland, CA$10,000112022
Ucp of SacramentoSacramento, CA$10,000112022
United Food Source IncMarysville, CA$10,000112024
United Way Ca Capital RegionSacramento, CA$10,000112024
Yolo Crisis NurseryDavis, CA$10,000112022
Marine Toys for Tots FounSacramento, CA$8,000332023
Hearts for Paws Rescue IncDavis, CA$5,000112024
Kitten CentralNewcastle, CA$5,000112024

9 of 23 (39%) 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 54%, 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 18 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.

Human Services
5 grants
Environment
4 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants
Education
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20217$90,000$10,000
202213$160,500$10,000
202310$149,500$10,000
20248$175,000$12,500

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.

Where its money goes

72% of its giving went to organizations in California. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

California
$415K
Oklahoma
$135K
Texas
$25K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc5 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program5 shared recipientsSutter Valley Hospitals4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Irma Ceunis and's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). 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: 433 Second Street Suite 106, Woodland, CA, 95695. 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 68-0441999 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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