The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it gives only to organizations it has already chosen and does not accept unsolicited requests. An introduction is usually the only route.
No public data foundThe return states a posture but gives no instructions.
Application policy: Funds preselected organizations only, as stated on the FY2020 return.
What its returns show
Stated the same way on all 5 Form 990-PF returns on record (FY2016 to FY2020).
Philanthropy and grantmaking
3 grants on file · $11.9K · FY2017–2020
IRS 990 · FY2022
These lines count this foundation's own Form 990-PF returns that the IRS has published as data. An amended return replaces its original. They describe past returns only.
Application guidance comes from the funder's own Form 990-PF, Part XV (the section where a private foundation says how to apply), shown as filed. It is the funder's words, not ours. These fields are free text and the IRS form cuts them short. Filers sometimes put whole sentences in the contact-name box. Shown exactly as filed.
Financials
Grants paid
$0
FY2022 · grants and similar amounts paid
Total assets
$421K
FY2022 · end of year
Revenue
$242K
FY2022
Expenses
$190K
FY2022
Grants paid by year
Total assets by year
Where the money went · FY2022
Program services54%
Management and general13%
Fundraising32%
Form 990 splits expenses into program services, management and fundraising. The split is self-reported, and a grantmaker, a research institute and a direct-service nonprofit book the same work differently. A line the return does not carry reads "not available"; it is never counted as zero.
Year
Form
Revenue
Expenses
Grants paid
Assets
Net assets
FY2022
990
$241,948
$189,854
$0
$420,879
Figures are as reported on the e-filed return, with no restatement. Fiscal years are the funder's own tax year, labelled by the calendar year the period ends in. A blank line means the return does not carry that figure; a real zero shows as $0. When an amended return replaces an original, every figure here uses the amended return. The original is not shown. Giving is what the funder actually paid out toward its charitable purpose in the year (qualifying distributions on Form 990-PF, charitable disbursements otherwise). Assets are what it holds; giving is what moves.
What they fund
Recipient focus areas
Environment$10K · 1
Where recipients are
CA$11.9K · 3
Based on the 33% of grant rows we could match to an organization record. The rest stay as reported. The IRS assigns the NTEE category when it grants exemption. It often reflects the original filing, not today's giving.
Grants paid
3 on file
Recipient
Purpose
Amount
Year
Source
The Ecology CenterMatched to this organization because 8 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2024. Counted Oct 9, 2026.San Juan Capistrano, CA
Water filtration
$10,000
2017
Recipients are shown as the funder wrote them on the return. A recipient with a link was matched to an organization record; the rest stay as reported and are never guessed. Some links come from other funders' returns: when three or more of them wrote the same name and state with one EIN, and the city on this row matches, we use that EIN. The name on this row is still shown as this funder wrote it.
Officers and directors
Name
Title
Hours / week
Compensation
Justine Chiara
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CHAIR
20.00
$44,000
Rob Machado
CO-FOUNDER
3.00
$0
Carolyn Whitehouse
SECRETARY
3.00
$0
Thad Benshoof
DIRECTOR
From the officer list on the latest e-filed return. Compensation is as reported there; a blank means the return carries no figure.
$392,098
FY2021
990
$265,499
$166,714
$0
$349,748
$340,004
FY2020
990-PF
$44,338
$88,121
$40,121
$241,507
$241,219
FY2019
990-PF
$120,557
$121,326
$73,326
$286,270
$285,002
FY2018
990-PF
$155,058
$102,853
$54,853
$285,771
$285,771
FY2017
990-PF
$114,387
$135,450
$87,450
$234,850
$233,566
FY2016
990-PF
$89,192
$113,209
$95,209
$254,672
$254,630
Anaheim Union High School DistrictBuena Park, CA
To support a fund raising event for the Hope School