Charity Works
Culver City, CA · EIN 91-1830363. Reported 79 grants totalling $1,798,352 to 63 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 Charity Works, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A60) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 63 distinct organizations, with 21% 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. 26% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $10,837. Half of what it reported fell between $6,068 and $21,990; the smallest was $5,207 and the largest $151,935. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mccallum Theatre Foundation Inc | Palm Desert, CA | $385,041 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Barbara Sinatra Childrens Center Foundation | Rancho Mirage, CA | $246,120 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Cultural Center Inc | Palm Desert, CA | $105,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Animal Samaritans | Thousand Plms, CA | $89,084 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dap Health Inc | Palm Springs, CA | $66,917 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Living Desert | Palm Desert, CA | $60,414 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| College of the Desert Foundation | Palm Desert, CA | $51,600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Musicians on Call Inc | Nashville, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Three Square | Las Vegas, NV | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Youth Villages Inc | Bartlett, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Do the Right Thing - Greater Palm Springs | Rancho Mirage, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Coachella Valley | Palm Desert, CA | $38,623 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Guide Dogs of the Desert | Whitewater, CA | $37,171 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service of the Desert | Palm Springs, CA | $34,060 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation | Richmond, VA | $32,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Paws & Hearts | Palm Desert, CA | $27,462 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Chaparral High School | Las Vegas, NV | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New York Pops Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| AIDS Assistance Program | Palm Springs, CA | $20,987 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Marthas Village and Kitchen Inc | Indio, CA | $20,555 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sandy High Music Foundation | Sandy, OR | $19,314 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Loving All Animals Inc | Coachella, CA | $15,504 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Desert Symphony Inc | Palm Desert, CA | $12,858 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Save Oswit Canyon Inc | Palm Springs, CA | $12,358 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lifestream Blood Bank | Sn Bernrdno, CA | $11,918 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Monacco Middle School | Las Vegas, NV | $11,704 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| James Madison High School | Brooklyn, NY | $11,243 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fordham High School for the Arts | Bronx, NY | $11,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Manhattan Academy for Arts & Language | New York, NY | $10,813 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Palm Springs Police Officers Association | Palm Springs, CA | $10,663 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Well in the Desert | Palm Springs, CA | $10,103 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Los Ninos Primero Inc | Sandy Springs, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stephen a Halsey Academy | Rego Park, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| U C San Diego Foundation | La Jolla, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Angel View Inc | Cathedral City, CA | $8,433 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| A C T for Multiple Sclerosis | Palm Desert, CA | $8,068 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Palm Springs | Palm Springs, CA | $7,940 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Walter Johnson Junior High School | Las Vegas, NV | $7,462 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Operation Safe House Inc | Riverside, CA | $7,113 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lake Howell High School | Winter Park, FL | $6,879 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| BOO2BULLYING Inc | Palm Springs, CA | $6,413 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Amy S Purpose Inc | Yucca Valley, CA | $6,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Coachella Valley Mounted Rangers | Indio, CA | $6,150 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Green Valley High School | Henderson, NV | $6,098 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Newsome High School | Lithia, FL | $6,036 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cove Communities Senior Association | Palm Desert, CA | $5,813 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| East Side High School | Newark, NJ | $5,775 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Del Sol High School | Las Vegas, NV | $5,716 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Safe Schools Desert Cities Corp | Palm Springs, CA | $5,568 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tarkanian Middle School | Las Vegas, NV | $5,564 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Phillip O Berry Academy of Technology Music Boosters | Charlotte, NC | $5,559 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Onedia High School | Oneida, NY | $5,530 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oak Hills High School | Cincinnati, OH | $5,489 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lake Orion High School | Lake Orion, MI | $5,435 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Garside High School | Las Vegas, NV | $5,431 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oldfield Middle School | Greenlawn, NY | $5,431 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Savannah High School | Savannah, GA | $5,428 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Las Vegas Academy of the Arts | Las Vegas, NV | $5,419 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thomas W Harvey High School | Painesville, OH | $5,386 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Legacy High School | North Las Vegas, NV | $5,336 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| English High School | Jamaica Plain, MA | $5,329 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hanson House Foundation Inc | Palm Springs, CA | $5,232 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Desertarc | Palm Desert, CA | $5,207 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
13 of 63 (21%) 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.
- Mccallum Theatre
PROMOTE HEALTH AND HOPE TO THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING PROVIDING RELIEF FOR POOR AND UNDERPRIVELEGED - Animal Samaritans SPCA
Community Support Services
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 of 63 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 | 2 | $135,000 | $67,500 |
| 2022 | 26 | $517,472 | $11,290 |
| 2023 | 46 | $960,880 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 5 | $185,000 | $20,000 |
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
77% 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 $10,837 -- 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 Charity Works'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 5 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: 9696 Culver Blvd Ste 105, Culver City, CA, 90232.
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