California · Public charity
Action Council of Monterey County Inc
Action Council is a regional social equity incubator that serves the Monterey Bay area. Our major programs include: (1) Pathways to Safety, an early intervention and prevention program designed to keep children safe and in their homes and out of the child welfare system. (2) Building Healthy Communities, focused on improving health…
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $220,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Action Council of Monterey County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $959k | 89% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $1.5M | 75% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $38k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $49k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $31k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $77k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Housing Improvement Systems & Planning Association | $1,350,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno | $220,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Center for Community Advocacy | $175,000 | 1 | n/a |
| COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action | $143,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Youth Alliance | $131,302 | 4 | 1% |
| Valley Onward | $100,350 | 1 | n/a |
| American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs | $52,000 | 1 | 38% |
| Milpa | $48,474 | 2 | 1% |
| Monterey County Sheriff's Advisory Counc | $46,359 | 1 | 32% |
| Alisal Center for the Fine Arts | $27,250 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 19 grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($134k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Action Council of Monterey County Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The California Endowment · Latino Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Sunlight Giving · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Action Council of Monterey County Inc
- How much does Action Council of Monterey County Inc give?
- Action Council of Monterey County Inc reported 19 itemized grants totaling $1,033,684, out of $1,175,721 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Action Council of Monterey County Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (49%), Community Improvement (13%), International (8%).
- Who are Action Council of Monterey County Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Housing Improvement Systems & Planning Association ($1.4M), Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno ($220k), Center for Community Advocacy ($175k).
- Does Action Council of Monterey County Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Action Council of Monterey County Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The California Endowment, Latino Community Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation.
- Where is Action Council of Monterey County Inc based?
- Action Council of Monterey County Inc is based in CA.
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