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The Irma Ceunis and

Woodland, CA · EIN 68-0441999. Reported 38 grants totalling $575,000 to 23 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$575,000granted, 2021-2024
23organizations funded
54%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,111,007assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Irma Ceunis and did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $8,500 and $20,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $65,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
4 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
20 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
FFA BoosterWoodland, CA$117,000442024
Cowboy Wresting Club IncStillwater, OK$65,000112024
National Wresting Hall of FameStillwater, OK$50,000112023
Yolo Basin FoundationDavis, CA$35,000332023
Short Term Emergency Aid CommitteeDavis, CA$30,000332023
K&k Animal RescueHillister, TX$25,000222024
The Center for Land Based LearningWoodland, CA$25,000112024
Woodland Healthcare FoundationWooldand, CA$25,000112022
Yolo County Spay & Neuter GroWoodlandc, CA$25,000112021
Childrens HopeYuba City, CA$22,500222023
All Leaders Must ServeWoodland, CA$20,000222023
Oklahoma State UniversityStillwater, OK$20,000222022
Yolo Food BankWoodland, CA$20,000112022
George Town RotaryGeorgetown, CA$17,500332023
Empower YoloWoodland, CA$10,000112023
Empoyer YoloWoodland, CA$10,000112022
Ucp of SacramentoSacramento, CA$10,000112022
United Food Source IncMarysville, CA$10,000112024
United Way Ca Capital RegionSacramento, CA$10,000112024
Yolo Crisis NurseryDavis, CA$10,000112022
Marine Toys for Tots FounSacramento, CA$8,000332023
Hearts for Paws Rescue IncDavis, CA$5,000112024
Kitten CentralNewcastle, CA$5,000112024

9 of 23 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 54%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
5 grants
Environment
4 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants
Education
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20217$90,000$10,000
202213$160,500$10,000
202310$149,500$10,000
20248$175,000$12,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 72% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

California
$415K
Oklahoma
$135K
Texas
$25K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal 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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Irma Ceunis and's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 433 Second Street Suite 106, Woodland, CA, 95695. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 68-0441999 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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