The Inland Empire Community Foundation is accepting applications for its 2025 Community Impact Fund.
Donor Name: Inland Empire Community Foundation (IECF)
State: California
County: Riverside County (CA), San Bernardino County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/28/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
IECF’s Community Impact Fund (CIF) is its only unrestricted grantmaking. Two years ago, the Community Impact Fund, IECF’s competitive grant opportunity, funded efforts by IE nonprofits to embark on their own journey of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and to consider how those ideas could enhance their impact.
In June 2025, they hosted focus groups in three (3) locations – Riverside, San Bernardino and Coachella Valley. Twenty-two organizations participated from the sectors of Arts & Culture, Veteran Services, Youth Mentoring, Capacity Builder, College Prep, Immigrant Services, After School Program, Foster Youth, Health, Housing, Child Advocates, Senior Services, and Food Insecurity. Participants provided context on the state of IE nonprofits and consequently identified, prioritized, and delineated the most impactful, relevant and simplest ways to distribute $500,000 in grant funding.
Objectives
- Support and build the capacity and effectiveness of nonprofits, collaboratives and coalitions that are responding to Executive Orders signed in 2025 covering a broad range of issues including diversity, equity and inclusion programs, civic engagement, immigration, environment, government grants and contracts and other nonprofit subsectors .
- Provide flexible, general operating support.
- Support small budget sizes, levels of capacity, and infrastructure.
Funding Priorities
- Approach
- Clients, constituents and individuals most impacted are meaningfully engaged and involved in decision making to inform the organization’s strategies and work;
- Experience
- Ability to communicate a track record of activity and impact, including during times of adjustment and change;
- Collective Action
- Involvement in community partnerships, networks, and/or coalitions;
- Innovation
- Focus on ideas, especially those addressing immediate needs creatively or forming sustainable models to meet this moment, including organizational models like shared backoffice services or strategic mergers to increase efficiency and longevity.
Funding Information
The maximum request and award is $20,000.
Grant Period
The grant period is for six (6) months—starting October 15, 2025 to April 15, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit, public benefit organizations with evidence of tax-exempt status under Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code and not classified as a private foundation.
- Nonprofit organizations that can document on-going operations in Riverside and/or San Bernardino Counties and have nonprofit status, 501c3, per above for at least three years.
- Organizations that operate so that they do not discriminate in the hiring of staff or in providing services on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin or disability.
For more information, visit IECF.
