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Pacific Club Impact Foundation

Newport Beach, CA · EIN 20-1508538. Reported 28 grants totalling $250,000 to 23 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

23organizations funded
$5,000median reported grant
$250,000granted, 2021-2024
12%of grantees funded again the next year
22%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 Pacific Club Impact Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 23 distinct organizations, with 22% 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. 12% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 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 $5,000. Half of what it reported fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $30,000. 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.
Under $5,000
2 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
19 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants

22 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $200,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

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
Regents of the University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI$55,000332024
Board of the University of AlabamaTuscaloosa, AL$30,000112023
Auburn University General ScholarshipAuburn, AL$25,000112021
Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL$25,000112021
National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame IncIrving, TX$15,000332023
Merging Vets and Players IncLas Vegas, NV$10,000112022
University of Georgia Scholarship FundAthens, GA$10,000112021
University of UtahSalt Lake City, UT$10,000222023
Beyond BlindnessSanta Ana, CA$5,000112023
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire IncSanta Ana, CA$5,000112024
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Orange County IncOrange, CA$5,000112024
Kansas State University FoundationManhattan, KS$5,000112022
Kidworks Community Development CorporationSanta Ana, CA$5,000112022
Lauras HouseAliso Viejo, CA$5,000112024
Miracles for Kids IncIrvine, CA$5,000112022
Orange County Adult Achievement CenterAnaheim, CA$5,000112024
Project Transitions IncAustin, TX$5,000112024
The Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH$5,000112022
The UCLA FoundationLos Angeles, CA$5,000112023
Treasure HouseGlendale, AZ$5,000112021
University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA$5,000112022
Caterinas ClubAnaheim, CA$2,500112021
Hospitaller Foundation of California IncLos Angeles, CA$2,500112021

3 of 23 (13%) 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 13 of 23 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.

Education
4 orgs
Human Services
3 orgs
Recreation & Sports
2 orgs
Health Care
1 org
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org
Civil Rights
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20219$85,000$5,000
20228$65,000$5,000
20235$50,000$5,000
20246$50,000$5,000

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

22% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. 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.

Michigan
$55K
Alabama
$55K
California
$50K
Illinois
$25K
Texas
$20K
Nevada
$10K
Georgia
$10K
Utah
$10K

Down to the city

Ann Arbor, MI
$55K
Tuscaloosa, AL
$30K
Auburn, AL
$25K
Evanston, IL
$25K
Irving, TX
$15K
Santa Ana, CA
$15K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc10 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust8 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 $5,000 -- 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 Michigan.
  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 Pacific Club Impact Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 4110 Macarthur Blvd, Newport Beach, CA, 92660.

EIN 20-1508538 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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