International Community Foundation
National City, CA · EIN 33-0457858. Reported 38 grants totalling $7,894,049 to 36 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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 International Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 36 distinct organizations, with 79% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $24,597. Half of what it reported fell between $13,800 and $47,500; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $2,192,152. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See Attachment | National City, CA | $6,274,410 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Immigrant Defenders Law Center | Los Angeles, CA | $366,217 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Olivewood Gardens & Learning Center Inc | National City, CA | $319,288 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Project Amigo | Novato, CA | $177,542 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Future Generations | Franklin, WV | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| U C San Diego Foundation | La Jolla, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oceana Inc | Washington, DC | $47,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Voces Y Manos Por El Derecho a La Salud | Oakland, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yes We Can World Foundation | Burbank, CA | $38,927 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Legacy Philanthropy Works | Santa Barbara, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Meridian Institute | Drexel Hill, PA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ecology Project International | Missoula, MT | $31,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Faith in Practice | Houston, TX | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stoveteam International | Portland, OR | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition | National City, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The San Diego Foundation | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sonoran Institute Inc | Tucson, AZ | $24,194 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| World Central Kitchen Incorporated | Washington, DC | $22,180 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Al Otro Lado Inc | San Ysidro, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wildcoast | Del Mar, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tipey Joa Native Warriors | El Cajon, CA | $16,330 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Children International | Kansas City, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Prescott College Inc | Prescott, AZ | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sky Island Alliance | Tucson, AZ | $14,974 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Miami Freedom Project Inc | Miami, FL | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gale Force Education | Saint Paul, MN | $13,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Altar Valley Conservation Alliance | Tucson, AZ | $12,031 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New York Cares Inc | New York, NY | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Barrio Logan College Institute | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Haitian Bridge Alliance | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Redford Center Inc | San Francisco, CA | $8,970 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Refugee Health Alliance | La Jolla, CA | $8,238 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Baja Coastal Institute Inc | Irvine, CA | $7,885 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Environmental Grantmakers Association | New York, NY | $7,563 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Growers First Inc | Laguna Beach, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
1 of 36 (3%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 of 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | $2,015,172 | $2,015,172 |
| 2021 | 1 | $2,192,152 | $2,192,152 |
| 2022 | 1 | $2,067,086 | $2,067,086 |
| 2023 | 35 | $1,619,639 | $22,180 |
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
94% 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 $24,597 -- 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 International Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 35 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: 2505 N Avenue, National City, CA, 91950.
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