Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Palm Desert, California

33
foundations with a Palm Desert address
$32.5M
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
6
say they accept unsolicited
$11,377
median grant

Grantlas lists 33 foundations that gave a Palm Desert, California address on their tax filing — 29 private foundations and 4 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $32.5 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 6 of them (18%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Palm Desert foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 33 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Palm Desert, California
McFarland Family FoundationAccepts$6,702$193,946$75–$31,826FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Rights Education Adoption &Accepts$2,000$88,060$50–$13,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Ironwood Employee Assistance FoundationAccepts$71,589$71,589—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
James L White FoundationAccepts$5,000$63,000$2,000–$10,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Bragdon R Garrow FoundationAccepts$1,664$5,664$385–$14,182FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
George and Paula Carlsgaard FoundationAccepts$770$770—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Desert Community FoundationCommunity foundationNot stated$15,051Over $5k only$4.9M$5,010–$150,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bighorn Golf Club Charities IncFederationNot stated$11,000Over $5k only$1.8M$6,000–$546,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
One Valley FoundationPublic foundationNot stated$20,000Over $5k only$541,418$6,000–$333,333FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Palm Springs Cruisin AssociationPublic foundationNot stated$110,000Over $5k only$123,701$100,000–$120,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
HN and Frances C Berger FoundationInvitation only$15,000$16.5M$1,000–$10.7MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Tammis Day FoundationInvitation only$20,000$4M$2,500–$2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Karlin Family FoundationInvitation only$100,000$1.5M$75,000–$485,388FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Auen FoundationInvitation only$20,000$1.1M$5,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Charlotte Rashmi-GraffInvitation only$32,571$325,705$28,860–$33,621FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Ac and Shaughne S WarnackInvitation only$5,000$234,500$500–$25,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
La Quinta Arts FoundationInvitation only$89,048$178,096$65,140–$112,956FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Reynaldo J Carreon MD FoundationIndividuals only$170,000$170,000—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Glen and Opal Barnett FoundationInvitation only$75,000$157,445$50,000–$107,445FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Raymond R & Martha G WernigInvitation only$3,500$154,000$250–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Anne & Karen Scholl FoundationInvitation only$15,000$75,071$15,000–$15,071FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
California Desert Arts Council LLCInvitation only$34,663$69,325$25,000–$44,325FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bernard Silver & Betty SilverInvitation only$6,900$65,225$550–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Etheridge Family FoundationInvitation only$28,295$51,700$4,890–$51,700FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Robert & Joan MastersonInvitation only$25,500$51,000$1,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.