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DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

EIN 95-4725924 PALM DESERT, CA

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Revenue 2024
$12,604,976
Expenses 2024
$5,995,765

Program services were 82.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T31
Classification
1000
Street
75105 MERLE DR STE 300

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 300). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO ENCOURAGE AND FACILITATE CHARITABLE GIVING IN OUR DESERT COMMUNITIES

  • CHARITABLE GRANT MAKING

    Expenses $4,961,966 · Grants $4,856,241 · Revenue $2,395,241

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Sandra M Comrie

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dorothy Hamilton

    BOARD MEMBER & OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ricardo Loretta

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rosalin Schiller

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Kirby

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Edward Tauber

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jack Shakely

    BOARD MEMBER EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Birdwell

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Greg Sanders

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Gonzalez

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bruce Bahneman

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary C Panesar

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & SECRE

    Total calculated
    $133,342
    From this org
    $133,342
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Manuel Arredondo

    CHAIRMAN & OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $12,604,976
    Expenses
    $5,995,765
    Contributions
    $9,341,313
    Grants paid
    $4,856,241
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $12,638,234
    Expenses
    $4,651,034
    Contributions
    $7,638,782
    Grants paid
    $3,926,182
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,535,887
    Expenses
    $4,826,770
    Contributions
    $6,831,567
    Grants paid
    $4,080,018

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,648,643
    Expenses
    $2,877,791
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,474,868

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,418,957
    Expenses
    $4,789,415
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,702,911

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,795,292
    Expenses
    $5,402,603
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,032,497

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,666,711
    Expenses
    $5,302,702
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,032,496

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,364,893
    Expenses
    $2,817,423
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,476,834

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,392,818
    Expenses
    $3,526,792
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,701,574

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,614,117
    Expenses
    $6,643,714
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,262,585

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • VOLLEYBALL NEWPORT BEACH INC

    $150,000

    2024 GENERAL SUPPORT

  • COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION

    $119,606

    2023 GENERAL SUPPORT

  • GALILEE CENTER

    $114,109

    2024 GENERAL SUPPORT

  • HOAG CHARITY SPORTS

    $100,000

    2024 GENERAL SUPPORT

  • GALILEE CENTER

    $87,725

    2023 GENERAL SUPPORT

  • NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT

    $75,000

    2024 GENERAL SUPPORT

  • VOICES FOR CHILDREN

    $57,178

    2024 GENERAL SUPPORT

  • EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION

    $56,495

    2023 GENERAL SUPPORT

  • ANIMAL SAMARITANS

    $54,853

    2024 GENERAL SUPPORT

  • EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION

    $52,635

    2024 GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.