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Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians

San Jacinto, CA · EIN 45-3656119. Reported 98 grants totalling $1,309,571 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

55organizations funded
$12,000median reported grant
$1,309,571granted, 2021-2024
52%of grantees funded again the next year
8%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 Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B90) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 52% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $12,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $16,000; the smallest was $5,477 and the largest $32,000. 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
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
79 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 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
Friends of Valley-Wide FoundationHemet, CA$101,385442024
Pechanga Resort CasinoTemecula, CA$62,000442024
California Tribal Business AllianceSacramento, CA$59,000442024
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla IndiansPalm Springs, CA$57,500332023
San Manuel Band of Mission IndiansHighland, CA$56,500332024
Morongo CasinoCabazon, CA$55,000332024
San Jacinto Unified School DistrictSan Jacinto, CA$48,500332023
Chumash Museum and Cultural Education FoundationSanta Ynez, CA$47,000332024
Soboba Band of LuiseSan Jacinto, CA$46,089332024
American Cancer Society IncAtlanta, GA$45,849222023
Tachi Palace Hotel & CasinoLemoore, CA$41,000332024
Eagle Mountain CasinPorterville, CA$36,000332024
Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health IncGrand Terrace, CA$32,000332024
Walking Shield IncCosta Mesa, CA$30,000332024
Sycuan Golf Resort AssociationJamul, CA$29,000222024
Hemet San Jacinto Valley Chamber of CommerceHemet, CA$27,250222024
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla IndiansPalm Springs, CA$26,500112024
Hemet Unified School DistrictHemet, CA$25,000222022
Inner-Tribal TreatmentPauma Valley, CA$25,000112023
Careavan Transit System IncHemet, CA$22,000222024
Inter Tribal Sports IncSan Diego, CA$22,000222024
Singing Hills GolfEl Cajon, CA$22,000222022
7G FoundationPauma Valley, CA$20,000222023
Carols Kitchen IncBeaumont, CA$20,000222023
Community PantryHemet, CA$20,000222022
Youth for Truth InternationalHemet, CA$20,000222022
Trauma Intervention Programs IncMenifee, CA$18,000222023
Santa Ynez Chumas IndiansSanta Ynez, CA$15,000112021
National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame IncIrving, TX$14,500222023
Protect Connect Educate SolutionsMurrieta, CA$14,278222024
California Tribal Families CoalitionSacramento, CA$12,000112024
Michelles PlaceTemecula, CA$12,000112024
Native Youth Foundation IncEscondido, CA$12,000112024
San Jacinto High School Mountain Bike TeamSan Jacinto, CA$12,000112024
Soroptimist International of the Americas IncHemet, CA$12,000112024
Valley Resource Center IncHemet, CA$12,000112024
Voices for ChildrenSan Diego, CA$12,000112024
Eek Fitness IncHemet, CA$10,500112023
Colombiere Retreat Center IncIdyllwild, CA$10,000112022
Grandfathers for Golf IncHemet, CA$10,000112023
Hemet Hospice Volunteers IncHemet, CA$10,000112021
House of Pain So Cal Boxing and Fitness Club - a Youth Mentoring PTemecula, CA$10,000112023
Native American Land ConservancyBanning, CA$10,000112022
Oak Grove Institute Foundation IncMurrieta, CA$10,000112023
Ramona Humane Society IncSan Jacinto, CA$10,000112021
Semper Fi SportsMoorhead, MN$10,000112021
The Center IncHemet, CA$10,000112021
V I P Tots IncHemet, CA$10,000112022
Valley Restart ShelterHemet, CA$10,000112022
VeteranspayingitforwardMountain Ctr, CA$10,000112021
American Indian Recruitment ProgramsSan Diego, CA$8,520112021
Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla IndiansToppenish, WA$8,000112024
California Indian Nations College CorporationPalm Desert, CA$7,200112024
Take Back the NeighborhoodNewport Beach, CA$7,000112021
San Bernardino County Safety Employees Benefit Assoc CharityRedlands, CA$6,000112022

27 of 55 (49%) 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.

It also reported 2 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 of 55 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.

Human Services
6 orgs
Youth Development
5 orgs
Recreation & Sports
4 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs
Civil Rights
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202119$193,997$10,000
202228$355,635$10,000
202325$371,349$12,500
202426$388,590$12,000

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

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.

California
$1.2M
Georgia
$46K
Texas
$14K
Minnesota
$10K
Washington
$8K

Down to the city

Hemet, CA
$300K
San Jacinto, CA
$117K
Temecula, CA
$84K
Palm Springs, CA
$84K
Sacramento, CA
$71K
Santa Ynez, CA
$62K

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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.

Inland Empire Community Foundation9 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc4 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc4 shared recipientsFirst Nations Development Institute3 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc3 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 $12,000 -- 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 Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians'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 17 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 9 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 487, San Jacinto, CA, 92581.

EIN 45-3656119 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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