Sweet Geeks Foundation
Houston, TX · EIN 87-2094183. Reported 48 grants totalling $233,096 to 44 organizations across tax years 2022-2024. 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 $3,949. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,078 and $5,000; the smallest was $1,270 and the largest $10,001. 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. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patriots and Paws | Huntington Beach, CA | $15,001 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| STEM Advantage | Huntington Beach, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Thomas House Temporary Shelter | Garden Grove, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pathways to Independence | Huntington Beach, CA | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Young Lives Redeemed | Fullerton, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Monique Maldonado | Riverside, CA | $3,035 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connie Butsko | Murrieta, CA | $3,013 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Valerie Martinez | Newport Beach, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bloom Foundation Inc | Irvine, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Diy Girls | Pacoima, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Resounding Joy Inc | San Diego, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Walk With Sally | El Segundo, CA | $1,270 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
4 of 44 (9%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 5%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
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 |
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 -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas House Emergency Shelter | Garden Grove, CA | $10,000 |
Where its money goes
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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,949. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- 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.
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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 3 returns (tax years 2022-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
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.
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