• Serving the Coachella Valley Since 1999

  • OUR Stats & Figures

    Speak for Themselves

    23 Years

    Serving the Coachella Valley

    $107m

    Assets Under Management

    $24.7m

    Local Giving to Date

    $1.6m

    Scholarships Awarded 2019

    1,590

    Students Sent to College

    14,505

    College Semesters Funded

  • PUT YOUR PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS TO WORK

  • DONOR ADVISED FUNDS

    OPEN A DONOR ADVISED FUND WITH US.

    Donor Advised Funds are efficient, cost-effective alternatives to private or family foundations

    Donor Advised Funds

    A Donor Advised Fund (DAF) is a giving vehicle that provides you with immediate tax benefits and allows you to support the charities of choice through grant recommendations on your own timetable.

     

    HOW TO GIVE - LINK

  • Trusted Advisors PROGRAM

    Or if you'd prefer to use your own Investment Advisor to manage your funds, then look no further than our Trusted Advisors Program

    Who Uses the Trusted Advisors Program?

    Those with at least $500,000 to start a charitable fund or foundation and wish to use their own trusted financial advisor to manage the charitable dollars.

     

    INVESTMENT MANAGERS & ADVISORS TAP HERE FOR DETAILS

    How it Works

    1. Recommend Your Financial Advisor to Desert Community Foundation
    2. Establish your fund by making an initial irrevocable contribution of $500,000+
    3. Begin recommending grants from your fund to 501(c)(3) organizations in the U.S., as frequently as you wish

     

    CONTACT US TODAY

  • Scholarship Funds

    OPEN A SCHOLARSHIP FUND WITH US

    With over 20 years of managing scholarship programs for the finest private country clubs in the Coachella Valley, we're happy to share what we know.

     

    (Bonus: Our Scholarship Funds come with our exclusive Advisory Committee formed with local educators, administrators and college specialists).

    Country Club Scholarship Funds

    Invaluable insights into the best practices of setting up your club's scholarship fund.

     

     

    CONTACT US TODAY

    Private or Corporate Scholarship Funds

    You and DCF set the scholarship criteria together with the invaluable input of our Advisory Committee.

     

    CONTACT US TODAY

  • WHO WE ARE

  • WE ARE THE desert's COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

    SERVING THE COACHELLA VALLEY EXCLUSIVELY.

    SINCE 1999.

     

    The Coachella Valley is home.

    As a result, we have a deep understanding of its challenges and extraordinary potential.

    Through our partnerships with local donors, nonprofits and community members, we are dedicated to the promise of creating a strong and prosperous future for the region.

     

    Join us in our mission of a healthy and educated Coachella Valley

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  • OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Manuel Arrendondo

    BOARD MEMBER

    Steve Birdwell

    BOARD MEMBER

    Sandra Comrie

    BOARD MEMBER

    Jeff Gonzalez

    BOARD MEMBER

    Dorothy Hamilton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Dan Kirby

    BOARD MEMBER

    Ricardo Loretta

    BOARD MEMBER

    Richard Oliphant

    CHAIRMAN

    Greg Sanders

    BOARD MEMBER

    Rosalin Schiller

    BOARD MEMBER

    Jack Shakely

    BOARD MEMBER EMERITUS

    Edward Tauber

    BOARD MEMBER

    William Powers

    FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER

    (1941 - 2020)

    Ron Gother

    FOUNDER

    (1932 - 2013)

  • GET IN TOUCH

    760-674-9080

    Mary Panesar, Executive Director

    mpanesar@desertfoundation.org

    75-105 Merle Drive

    Suite 300

    Palm Desert, CA 92211

  • Mark Your Calendars!

    Wednesday, March 1, 2023

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