· Public charity
Action Council of Monterey County Inc
Action Council is a regional social equity incubator that serves the Monterey Bay area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $1,033,684 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,175,721 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $142,037 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k13 grants · $268k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $765k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRO BINACIONAL | $220,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY | $175,000 |
| COPA | $143,000 |
| VALLEY ONWARD | $100,350 |
| FIRST 5 MONTEREY COUNTY | $75,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY CENTRAL LABOR CO | $52,000 |
| MILPA | $26,667 |
| Youth Alliance | $26,667 |
| VICTORY MISSION | $25,000 |
| TRUE WAY OF LIVING OUTREACH | $25,000 |
| WORLD OUTREACH SERVICES | $25,000 |
| Emmanuel Church of God in Chr | $25,000 |
| NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| GOOD NEWS MEDICAL TRANSPORTAT | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $905k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- YAYOUTH ALLIANCE4× · 2019–2025 · $131k · revenue +274%
- MMILPA2× · 2023–2025 · $48k · revenue -6%
- ACALISAL CENTER FOR THE FINE ARTS2× · 2018–2019 · $27k · revenue -69%
Funded once
- CHCOMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT SYSTEMS & PLANNING ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $1.4M · revenue +22%
- MCMONTEREY COUNTY SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNCone grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue -39% · 32% of their budget
- RHRaiseRight Holdings Incone grant, 2023 · $44k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Central Valley Partnership (CVP) conducts and collaborates in training initiatives, including community organizer training, education on labor history and issues, messaging workshops, etc., aimed at fostering the establishment of new…
CAUSE's mission is to build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.
To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.
Within the Americas promoting dialogue and research, producing studies and reports, conducting courses and conferences particularly in the areas of agroecology and food security
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
To serve as the leading immigrant integration organization in the Central Valley, dedicated to ensuring the full participation of immigrants in building strong, vibrant, and inclusive communities.
The California Coalition for Rural Housing (CCRH) advocates for a thriving rural California by expanding affordable housing opportunitiies for rural, Tribal and farmworker communities. Founded in 1976, CCRH is one of the nation's oldest…
Providing services that empower families and individuals in our culturally diverse community, and empowering people to access life sustaining resources through Family Strengthening Department, Victim Services Department, Health and…
Our Mission is to develop and strengthen the power of Latinas to advance our collective success through sisterhood, leadership, and civic engagement.
Provide technical assistance to antipoverty organizations and member agencies enabling these agencies to acquire federal, state, and private funds.
The mission of chicana latina foundation is the empowerment of chicanas/latinas by supporting their personal, professional and educational advancement.
The mission of ccuih is to facilitate shared development resources for our members and to raise public awareness in order to support a health and wellness network that meets the needs of american indians living in urban communities in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Monterey County and the most unlike its peers is Victory Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT SYSTEMS & PLANNING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds COPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Valley Onward ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MILPA ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNC ↗
- Who funds ALISAL CENTER FOR THE FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CHICANO NEWS MEDIA ASSOC ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism ↗
- Who funds Victory Mission ↗
- Who funds WORLD OUTREACH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEROES LINKED ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE SERVICES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Action Council of Monterey County Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.