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The Champions Volunteer Foundation: 51 grants to organizations, $651,000 (tax year ended December 2024)
The Champions Volunteer Foundation, a private foundation in La Quinta, CA, paid 51 grants to organizations totaling $651,000 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 14, 2025. The largest was $100,000 to Riverside County Deputy Sheriff's Relief Foundation in Riverside, CA for to provide assistance to benefit the families of deputy sheriffs and other law-enforcement and public-safety officers who have been killed, injured or otherwise in crisis situations..
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- EIN
- 330952475
- Based in
- La Quinta, CA
- Assets
- $374,085
- Grants paid
- $651,000
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 14, 2025, IRS object ID 202533189349104778. It reported $651,000 in grants paid; 51 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside County Deputy Sheriff's Relief Foundation | Riverside, CA | To provide assistance to benefit the families of deputy sheriffs and other law-enforcement and public-safety officers who have been killed, injured or otherwise in crisis situations. | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Riverside County Professional Firefighter's Benevolent Fund | Menifee, CA | The goal of the riverside county professional firefighters benevolent fund is to be able to support those firefighters in their time of need. | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Armed Services YMCA 29 Palms - 2010 | Twentynine Palms, CA | To enhance the lives of military members and their families in spirit, mind, and body through programs relevant to the unique challenges of military life. | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Shelter From the Storm | Palm Desert, CA | To support our community counseling center therapeutic and case management program, which provides individual, one-to-one case management and counseling sessions in both english and spanish to victims | Mental health and crisis intervention | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Joshua Tree National Park Association | Twentynine Palms, CA | Joshua tree national park to help in its achievement of programming goals in education and interpretation, along with scientific and historical research and activities. | Environment | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Martha's Village and Kitchen | Indio, CA | To support the family shelter program operations (staff salaries, rent, utilities, insurance, building maintenance, supplies) and other necessary expenses that provide emergency housing, education, an | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Coachella Valley Mounted Rangers | Indio, CA | To care for and find homes for horses and visit local schools and offer students opportunity to care for horses. | $18,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Family YMCA of the Desert | Palm Desert, CA | To provide students the financial assistance to participate in the youth & government program; i.e., 9 nights in hotels, charter busses to and from fresno (twice), flights to sacramento & program fees | Human services | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Find Food Bank | Indio, CA | To support our "mobile pantry program" that reaches isolated communities where no partner agencies are available to offer emergency food-assistance. find currently deploys 22 mobile pantries throughou | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Assistance League of Coachellla Valley | Rancho Mirage, CA | Fund operation school bell to provide school clothing for children in need in the coachella valley. | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Desert | Palm Desert, CA | To support the "littles to college" project, which through one-on-one mentoring, guides low-income and/or single parent high school students through options for continuing education, ensuring that all | Youth development | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Children's Services of the Desert | La Quinta, CA | To fund speech, language and social skills therapy, parent training, and attending school meetings: (1) to help families get appropriate services, and (2) to help families understand their services wh | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Coachella Valley Rescue Mission | Indio, CA | Support the ongoing operations of cvrm's emergency food & shelter program which serves the homeless and otherwise underserved and impoverished men, women, and children arriving from all over the coach | Human services | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Coachella Valley Youth Golf Foundation | Palm Desert, CA | First tee is a youth development organization introducing the game of golf and its inherent values to young people. | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| College of the Desert Foundation | Palm Desert, CA | The organization that enhance the quality of education by advancing the college of the desert through building relationships, securing philanthropic support and stewarding assets. | Education | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Desert Cancer Foundation | Palm Desert, CA | The organization that help anyone in the coachella valley and surrounding communities with a cancer diagnosis that does not have the funds to pay for their cancer care. | Health care | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Fenixia Foundation Inc | Palm Desert, CA | To helping special needs adults, children and their families thrive by providing care, offering resources, and bringing joy to this community to improve their mental health. | Human services | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Friends of the Palm Springs Animal Shelter | Palm Springs, CA | As the only open admissions municipal shelter operating under the no kill philosophy, we need critical funds to provide homeless animals with lifesaving care, nutrition, medical and surgical supplies | Animal-related | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Guide Dogs of the Desert | Palm Springs, CA | To support the training of guide dogs specifically customized to each client's daily tasks and needs, and in matching those dogs with people with vision loss. objectives: (1) match 3 clients with guid | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harper for Kids | San Francisco, CA | To support our program of working with principals, teachers and students to deliver character education to public schools in the coachella valley. we wrote a children's book with legendary ucla basket | Youth development | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Love & Love Tennis Foundation | Palm Desert, CA | To promote junior tennis in the cv by working with njtl, boys & girls club, cv housing coalition, ymca, etc. the organization works to start free tennis clinics throughout the cv so all kids can play | Youth development | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Make A Wish Foundation Orange County & Inland Empire | Riverside, CA | To support the make-a-wish program in fulfilling the most heart-felt wish of a child with a life-threatening medical condition residing within the coachella valley. the average cost of a wish is betwe | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Mizell Senior Center | Palm Springs, CA | To provide food for a valley-wide meals on wheels program serving the 650 square mile coachella valley from desert hot springs and palm springs to salton sea. the program serves frail and homebound se | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Olive Crest | Palm Desert, CA | Olive crest's vision is a strong family for every child. olive crest's mission is to be dedicated to preventing child abuse, to treat and educate at-risk children and to preserve the family, "one life | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Variety the Children's Charity of the Desert | Palm Desert, CA | To purchase 2 adaptive bikes and 60 regular bikes for underprivileged and special needs children in the coachella valley. | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Cake4kids | Sunnyvale, CA | Deliver free custom homemade birthday cakes to at-risk and underserved youth across the country! | $9,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Barbara Sinatra Children's Center | Rancho Mirage, CA | To support the individual counseling and psychiatric evaluations for 10 children triaged for sexual or physical abuse - and not part of another grant program. | $8,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Desert Best Friend's Closet | Palm Desert, CA | The mission of desert best friend's closet is to educate and empower our clients for success in employment and life. the vision is for all coachella valley residents to be economically self-sufficient | $8,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Coachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine | Indio, CA | Coachella valley volunteers in medicine (cvvim) is to provide no-charge primary health care services to medically underserved people residing in the coachella valley. | Health care | $7,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Jewish Family Services of the Desert | Palm Springs, CA | To assist with funding of jfs' senior care management program which provides critically needed services to help improve the quality of life for low-income older adults throughout the coachella valley. | $7,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Autism Society | Rockville, MD | Connects people to the resources they need through education, advocacy, support, information and referral, and community programming. | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Voices for Children - Riverside City | Riverside, CA | Voices for children transforms the lives of abused children by providing them with volunteer court appointed special advocates (casas). casas are advocates and problem-solvers, who work one-on-one wit | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| American Heart Association | Riverside, CA | The organization focus is on improving cardiovascular health through research, education, advocacy, and community programs. | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Boys & Girls Club of Coachella Valley | Palm Desert, CA | To sponsor 200 annual memberships for 200 at-risk coachella valley teens who are unable to pay due to financial circumstances that are out of their control. | Youth development | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Braille Institute of America | Riverside, CA | Organization that committed to eliminating blindness and severe sight loss as barriers to a fulfilling life through educational training, programs, and services. | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Cove Communities Sr Association Dba the Josyln Center | Palm Desert, CA | Fund the meals on wheels program, providing homebound, frail seniors with nutritious meals delivered directly to their homes, and who would otherwise go without meals. | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Desert Arc | Palm Desert, CA | To help fund the "janitorial academy program", which is a revenue-generating component of the pathways to employment training program. clients are taught all aspects of janitorial service. funding is | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Family Services of the Desert | Desert Hot Springs, CA | To help offset direct operating expenses for family services of the desert's community food pantry food now. expenses include rent required for warehousing and distribution, electric (utility) require | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Friends of the Desert Mountains | Palm Desert, CA | To building a community of support to help preserve the unique wildlife and scenic beauty of the coachella valley and our desert mountains. we acquire and preserve wildlands, promote stewardship of tr | Animal-related | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Galilee Center | Mecca, CA | To secure operating funds to help provide the basic needs including food, housing, school supplies, as well as the operational cost of the comfort center that provides showers, laundry facility & a co | Human services | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Loving All Animals | Coachella, CA | To support the foster program "seniors offering shelter and the adoption program "mobile mutt"s in order to increase the number of adoptions and further reduce the euthanasia of our community's animal | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Onefuture Coachella Valley | Palm Desert, CA | Onefuture coachella valley, an alignment usa community, is advancing the regional plan to provide students with meaningful career explorations, work experience, and scholarships, as well as other supp | Education | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Operation Safehouse | Riverside, CA | To provides emergency shelter, intervention and outreach services to runaway, homeless or other youth in crisis. safehouse offers youth positive alternatives to becoming victims of the streets. | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Palm Springs Unified School District - Early Childhood Education Program | Palm Springs, CA | To provide the necessary funds to offer monthly language and literacy trainings at ten sites in the following areas: (1) presenters for literacy trainings ($2,500); (2) resource materials for classes | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Read With Me Volunteer Program | Rancho Mirage, CA | To purchase 500 books for children at peter pendleton school in coachella to foster their reading skills and love of reading. | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Songshine Foundation | Palm Desert, CA | Each spring, songshine singers and players present concerts. this year, we will present an original program called "broadway our way". the cast is made up of people with parkinson's, stroke, other neu | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| John F Kennedy Memorial Foundation | Palm Desert, CA | To sponsor 10 girls in the ophelia program at $350/student per year. this will enhance the curriculum, purchase program & art supplies, & provide transportation for the girls to tour local college cam | $4,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Children's Discovery Museum of the Desert | Rancho Mirage, CA | The children's discovery museum of the desert is a private non-profit, 501(c)3 institution founded in 1986 by a group of concerned citizens who wanted to provide an environment where children's intell | $3,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Smiles for Seniors Foundation | Yucaipa, CA | To help subsidize the senior emergency assistance fund, which provides low income seniors access to basic resources and necessities needed to survive, such as food, housing, utility assistance, minor | Human services | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Soroptimist House of Hope | Desert Hot Springs, CA | Soroptimist house of hope is focused on creating a way to help women suffering from addiction. a 4-bedroom house in desert hot springs delivers an addiction recovery program based on a 12-step treatme | Mental health and crisis intervention | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Senior Advocates of the Desert | Cathedral City, CA | To support one-on-one advocacy & assistance to low-income seniors to help them access long-term government income, healthcare, and housing benefits they need to live their lives with a sense of dignit | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Human services | $43,000 |
| Youth development | $35,000 |
| Mental health and crisis intervention | $28,000 |
| Environment | $20,000 |
| Health care | $17,500 |
| Education | $15,000 |
| Animal-related | $15,000 |
| Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $5,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| California | $645,000 |
| Maryland | $6,000 |
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Updated November 14, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.