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Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc

Washington, DC · EIN 45-5257937. Reported 405 grants totalling $91.2M to 282 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

1. What kind of organization it is. For Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc, the IRS classifies it under public safety & disaster relief rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE M05) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
2. How spread out its giving is. 282 distinct organizations, with 3% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
3. How much its list changes. 23% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $200,000. Half of what it reported fell between $100,000 and $260,000; the smallest was $6,835 and the largest $1,500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Every organization it funded

All 282 recipients appear in its filings; the 250 largest are listed here. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received a reported grant.

66 of 282 (23%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

• Project Hope - the People-to-People $1,500,000 · 2021
  THIS GRANT WAS AWARDED FOR COVID-19 RESPONSE IN SOUTH AMERICA, ASIA, EUROPE AND AFRICA FOR THEIR MENTAL HEALTH RESILIENCY PROGRAM TO TRAIN HEALTHCARE WORKERS.
• Ima Innovations $1,000,000 · 2023
  IMA INNOVATIONS (CORUS INTERNATIONAL) - WILL RECEIVE $1M FROM UKRAINE CRISIS RECOVERY FUND FOR A 12-MONTH PROGRAM, BEGINNING IN APRIL 2023, TO REBUILD SMALLHOLDER FARMER AND IDP LIVELIHOODS, INCREASE LOCAL CLIMATE-ADAPTIVE AGRICULTURAL CAPACITY AND PRODUCTION, AND IMPROVE FOOD SECURITY IN KHARKIV OBLAST.
• Community Organized Relief Effort $1,000,000 · 2021
  THIS GRANT WAS AWARDED FOR COVID-19 RESPONSE IN THE UNITED STATES TO EXPAND COVID-19 VACCINE ACCESS TO BIPOC NEIGHBORHOODS BY INCREASING TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT TO UNDERSERVED AND HIGH-RISK COMMUNITIES.
• Appalachian Community Capital Development Foundation $1,000,000 · 2025
  APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION RECEVIED $1,000,000FROM THE TRUIST WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA RECOVERY AND RESILIENCY FUND TO ADVANCE SMALL BUSINESS RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA IN RESPONSE TO HURRICANE HELENE. FUNDS WILL SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESS GRANT OPPORTUNITIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUSTAIN SMALL BUSINESS RECOVERY, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND WILL BUILD TOOLS AND RESOURCES TO PREPARE FOR FUTURE DISASTERS.
• Invest Appalachia $1,000,000 · 2025
  INVEST APPALACHIA RECEIVED $1,000,000 FROM THE TRUIST WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA RECOVERY AND RESILIENCY FUND FOR HOUSING AND SMALL BUSINESS RECOVERY, AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE HUBS. INVEST APPALACHIA WILL PROVIDE ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT FOR DISASTER RECOVERYTHROUGHOUT WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA IN RESPONSE TO HURRICANE HELENE
• Mountain Bizcapital Inc $1,000,000 · 2025
  MOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL INC. RECEIVED $1,000,000 FROM THE TRUIST WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA RECOVERY AND RESILIENCY FUND TO SUPPORT LONG-TERM RECOVERY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF SMALL BUSINESSES IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THIS INITIATIVE WILL STRENGTHEN THE REGIONS ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM BY OFFERING CONTINUED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, DIRECT SUBGRANTS AND TO RECOVERY NAVIGATION SERVICES. BY FOCUSING ON BOTH IMMEDIATE RECOVERY AND LONG-TERM RESILIENCE, THIS PROGRAM AIMS TO FOSTER ECONOMIC GROWTH AND STABILITY ACROSS THE REGIONS MOST IMPACTED COMMUNITIES.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 238 of 282 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Giving by year

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

14% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. 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 grantmaker

1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $200,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 84 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: One Thomas Circle Nw 700, Washington, DC, 20005.

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