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Impact Through Golf Foundation

La Quinta, CA · EIN 84-2411420. Reported 126 grants totalling $5,122,750 to 57 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

57organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$5,122,750granted, 2020-2024
67%of grantees funded again the next year
15%of dollars to its largest recipient

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 Impact Through Golf Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 15% 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. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than 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 $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
52 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
31 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
29 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
10 grants
$250,000 Or More
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Food in Need of Distribution IncIndio, CA$745,000552024
Discovery Land Company FoundationBeverly Hills, CA$450,000332024
Marthas Village and Kitchen IncIndio, CA$320,000442023
Boys & Girls Club of Cathedral CityCathedral Cty, CA$310,000552024
Coachella Valley Rescue MissionIndio, CA$250,000442024
Galilee CenterMecca, CA$235,000552024
Family YMCA of the DesertPalm Desert, CA$210,000332023
Coachella Valley Volunteers in MedicineIndio, CA$180,000552024
Boys & Girls Club of Coachella ValleyPalm Desert, CA$155,000442023
Coachella Valley Youth Golf FoundationIndio, CA$150,000442023
Kpmg U S Foundation IncMontvale, NJ$150,000222021
Pueblo Unido CdcLa Quinta, CA$125,000332024
Jewish Family Service of the DesertPalm Springs, CA$120,000222023
John F Kennedy Memorial FoundationPalm Desert, CA$115,000442024
Desert Sands Unified School District Educational FoundationLa Quinta, CA$110,000532022
The Girlfriend FactorPalm Desert, CA$105,000552024
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the DesertPalm Desert, CA$100,000552024
Mias Miracles Foundation IncTequesta, FL$80,000112024
Boys & Girls Club of Palm SpringsPalm Springs, CA$75,000442023
DesertarcPalm Desert, CA$75,000222021
American Friends of Our Armed ForcesWestmont, IL$52,500112020
American National Red CrossWashington, DC$50,000112024
Bighorn Golf Club CharitiesPalm Desert, CA$50,000112020
California Community FoundationLos Angeles, CA$50,000112024
Eisenhower Medical CenterRancho Mirage, CA$50,000112020
Play for P I N K IncNew York, NY$50,000112023
World Golf Foundation IncPonte Vedra, FL$50,000112021
Manhattan UniversityBronx, NY$48,000112024
Habitat for Humanity International IncPalm Desert, CA$40,000222021
Onefuture Coachella ValleyPalm Desert, CA$40,000222021
Tools for Tomorrow IncPalm Desert, CA$40,000222021
Hunter Lopez Memorial FoundationLa Quinta, CA$37,750332024
Autism Society Inland Empire IncCorona, CA$35,000222021
Pegasus Riding Academy for the HandicappedPalm Desert, CA$35,000222021
Variety Childrens Charities of the Desert Tent 66Palm Desert, CA$35,000222021
Desert Cancer FoundationPalm Desert, CA$30,000222021
Hanson House Foundation IncPalm Springs, CA$30,000222021
Olive CrestSanta Ana, CA$30,000222021
The Medical University of South Carolina FoundationCharleston, SC$27,500112024
Coachella Valley Boxing ClubCoachella, CA$26,500222024
Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders Association IncChicago, IL$25,000222021
Friends of the Desert MountainsPalm Desert, CA$25,000112021
Lifestream Blood BankSn Bernrdno, CA$25,000112020
T H I N K EducationSanta Ana, CA$25,000112021
Food Now IncDsrt Hot Spgs, CA$20,000112020
Harc IncPalm Desert, CA$20,000212021
Iraq Star IncSanta Clarita, CA$15,000112020
The Salvation ArmyRch Palos Vrd, CA$15,000112020
Alzheimers Coachella ValleyPalm Desert, CA$10,000112021
American Heart Association IncDallas, TX$10,000112021
California Scottish Rite FoundationSanta Ana, CA$10,000112020
Safe Schools Desert Cities CorpPalm Springs, CA$10,000112021
Shays WarriorsPalm Desert, CA$10,000112021
South Florida Golf Foundation IncDoral, FL$10,000112024
Valerie FundMaplewood, NJ$10,000112024
Childrens Cancer AssociationPortland, OR$8,000112024
Mental Health Systems IncSan Diego, CA$7,500112021

31 of 57 (54%) 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 49 of 57 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.

Human Services
9 orgs
Education
7 orgs
Health Care
6 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
5 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 orgs
Youth Development
3 orgs
Recreation & Sports
2 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202034$1,087,500$20,000
202138$997,500$22,500
202217$950,000$25,000
202317$997,750$25,000
202420$1,090,000$49,000

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

89% 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.

California
$4.6M
New Jersey
$160K
Florida
$140K
New York
$98K
Illinois
$78K
District of Columbia
$50K
South Carolina
$28K
Texas
$10K

Down to the city

Indio, CA
$1.6M
Palm Desert, CA
$1.1M
Beverly Hills, CA
$450K
Cathedral Cty, CA
$310K
La Quinta, CA
$273K
Mecca, CA
$235K

Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one

6 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 11 grants totalling $393,100 to Impact Through Golf Foundation. That is 35% of the 17 funders we can see giving to it. Those 6 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.

3 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.

What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.

FoundationStateReportedGrantsYearsLast
The Bob and Patti Antin FamilyCalifornia$120,000222021
Mackesy Family FoundationNew York$90,000112024
Dewalt Family FoundationCalifornia$80,000112023
Horejsi Charitable Foundation IncKansas$61,900332024
Paul & Phyllis Fireman CharitableMassachusetts$26,200112023
Louis F & Virginia C Bantle CharitableConnecticut$15,000332024

A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.

Every foundation in the table above files Form 990-PF, which reports every grant it made and asks outright whether it funds only organizations it picks. That answer is what puts it on this list; no other form asks the question. The grants this organization reports making are on Form 990 Schedule I, which only requires listing recipients paid more than $5,000. Two different populations, so the money in and the money out on this page are not two halves of one figure and must not be added or compared.

Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc33 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund32 shared recipientsBighorn Golf Club Charities Inc28 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation22 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc20 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc20 shared recipients

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 $25,000 -- 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 Impact Through Golf Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). 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 20 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: 78060 Calle Estado 12, La Quinta, CA, 92253.

EIN 84-2411420 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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