The Community Impact Fund Grant

Funder: The Inland Empire Community Foundation (IECF) Serving Riverside & San Bernardino Counties

The Community Impact Fund Grant, offered by the Inland Empire Community Foundation (IECF), aims to support nonprofits in Riverside and San Bernardino counties during challenging times. With a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, this unrestricted grant program provides essential operating support to organizations tackling pressing community issues. In 2025, IECF will distribute $500,000 to empower local nonprofits, ensuring they can effectively fulfill their missions and enhance their impact across various sectors.

Inland Empire Community Foundation (IECF)
The Foundation does this by raising, stewarding and distributing community philanthropic assets and by providing grants and scholarships to nonprofit organizations, and working toward a shared vision of a vibrant, generous and just region with unlimited opportunities.
Community Impact Fund: Meeting the Moment
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 2025, given the impact of executive orders, federal funding cuts, and threatened future financial support to our nonprofit sector, IECF is focusing the CIF grant opportunity to assist nonprofits in this moment.
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.
Six (6) Months Core Operating Support Grants
Grants awarded are for general operating costs and may support efforts that enable an organization to effectively carry out its mission by strengthening organizational capacity and infrastructure to meet this moment of uncertainty.