Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County

How it makes and monitors grants (Schedule I, Part IV)

Grant requests to non-profit organizations must be in agreement to our missions. we do not process grant requests to organizations that promote hatred, violence, bias, etc. jcfoc has an appeal process for donors who question the findings of our staff on these organizations. we validate each organization through guidestar and our fims database software provided microedge tax status plus verification. if we cannot find an organization in these tools, we check the websiste or contact the nonprofit directly for a copy of their letter stating they are a tax exempt organization. we receive a purpose for each grant request and it must meet the criteria of a tax exempt donation (no luncheons, no tickets to events, no payments to individuals, etc.) if we find a request does not meet the irs guidelines for tax exempt status, we contact our donor and "reject" their grant request. we validate all the nonprofit organizations/eins in our database on an annual basis, and make inactive any organization that is questionable per guidestar. all checks are sent directly to the "official address" of an organization - not to a volunteer or other location. donors cannot pick up checks and take them to a nonprofit themselves.