Anaheim Community Foundation
Anaheim, CA · EIN 33-0033023. Reported 43 grants totalling $2,757,375 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Anaheim Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 13% 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.
- How much its list changes. 42% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $48,889. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $5,320 and the largest $232,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jmh-Anaheim Foundation Inc | Anaheim, CA | $357,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Anaheim | Anaheim, CA | $295,032 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Anaheim Public Library Foundation a California Non-Profit Corporation | Anaheim, CA | $260,138 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dwelling Place Anaheim | Anaheim, CA | $252,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Action Partnership of Orange County | Garden Grove, CA | $210,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire Inc | Santa Ana, CA | $207,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kingdom Causes | Anaheim, CA | $152,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Covenant House California | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Girls Incorporated of Orange County | Santa Ana, CA | $100,001 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Orange County Congregation Community Organization | Anaheim, CA | $73,889 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Western Youth Services | Laguna Hills, CA | $72,917 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Muckenthaler Cultural Center Foundation | Fullerton, CA | $71,745 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| We Are Groundswell | Santa Ana, CA | $54,384 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Innovative Housing Opportunities Inc | Santa Ana, CA | $52,629 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Growth Opportunities Through Athletics Learning & Service Goals | Anaheim, CA | $50,001 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rytmo-Reaching Youth Through Music Opportunities Inc- | Anaheim, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Chance Theater | Anaheim, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Waymakers | Irvine, CA | $48,143 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Anaheim-Cypress | Anaheim, CA | $42,665 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oneoc | Santa Ana, CA | $41,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Latino Center for Prevention & Action in Health & Welfare | Santa Ana, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pure Game | Tustin, CA | $25,320 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cielo - Community for Innovation Entrepreneurship Leadershp & Oppor | Huntington Beach, CA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mind Oc | Irvine, CA | $23,016 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Orange County Adult Achievement Center | Anaheim, CA | $15,995 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kaboom Inc | Bethesda, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Renewable Farms | Orange, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alzheimers Orange County | Irvine, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Orange County Community Housing Corp | Santa Ana, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
10 of 29 (34%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire Inc
PROGRAM SUPPORT - ACT MENTAL HEALTH/HELPING HANDS - Girls Inc of Orange County
PROGRAM SUPPORT - ACT MENTAL HEALTH - Jmh-Anaheim Foundation Inc
RAPID RESPONSE/RECOVERY PROGRAM SUPPORT - Reaching Youth Through Music Opportunities
PROGRAM SUPPORT - MUSIC CLASSES - The Chance Theater
PROGRAM SUPPORT - YOUTH THEATRE - Kid Healthy - One Oc
PROGRAM SUPPORT - HEALTHY COOKING
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 29 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | $150,320 | $12,500 |
| 2022 | 12 | $892,142 | $40,009 |
| 2023 | 11 | $777,000 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 14 | $937,913 | $52,192 |
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
99% 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 the strongest signal available 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 grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $48,889 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- 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 Anaheim Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 23 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: Po Box 1253, Anaheim, CA, 92815.
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