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Action Council of Monterey County Inc

Action Council is a regional social equity incubator that serves the Monterey Bay area.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$220k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$1.4MCommunity Improvement$366kInternational$220kHuman Services$150kYouth Development$131kPhilanthropy$98kCivil Rights$91kEmployment$77kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $1,033,684, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,175,721 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $142,037 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $268k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $765k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Emmanuel Church of God in Chr$25,000
TRUE WAY OF LIVING OUTREACH$25,000
VICTORY MISSION$25,000
NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH$25,000
WORLD OUTREACH SERVICES$25,000
GOOD NEWS MEDICAL TRANSPORTAT$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VALLEY ONWARD: $100k → 19%WORLD OUTREACH SERVICES: $25k → 12%VICTORY MISSION: $25k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

8%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$207k · 3 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$207k
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $905k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’23’25
Human ServicesReligionCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterInternationalPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • YA
    YOUTH ALLIANCE
    4× · 2019–2025 · $131k · revenue +274%
  • M
    MILPA
    2× · 2023–2025 · $48k · revenue -6%
  • AC
    ALISAL CENTER FOR THE FINE ARTS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $27k · revenue -69%

Funded once

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT SYSTEMS & PLANNING ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.4M · revenue +19%
  • MC
    MONTEREY COUNTY SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNC
    one grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue -39% · 32% of their budget
  • RH
    RaiseRight Holdings Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $44k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Central Valley Partnership

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…

Civil Rights
2
Center for the study of the Americas

Within the Americas promoting dialogue and research, producing studies and reports, conducting courses and conferences particularly in the areas of agroecology and food security

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3
Community Impact Central Valley

To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.

Health
4
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy

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.

Community Improvement
5
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
6
California Coalition for Rural Housing Project

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
Community Initiatives for Collective Impact

Our mission is to join diverse people, ideas, and resources to address the most pressing social and environmental justice priorities. We believe that the community concerns of Californias San Joaquin Valley SJV can only be addressed if we…

Community Improvement
8
California Community Action Partnership Association

Provide technical assistance to antipoverty organizations and member agencies enabling these agencies to acquire federal, state, and private funds.

Human Services
9
The California-Mexico Studies Cente

The California-Mexico Studies Centers mission is to establish programs between higher education institutions and cultural organizations that will enhance the teaching and exchange of faculty and students between California and Mexico and…

Education
10
California Consortium for Urban Indian Health

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…

—
11
Chicana Foundation of Northern Ca Dba Chicana Latina Foundation

The mission of chicana latina foundation is the empowerment of chicanas/latinas by supporting their personal, professional and educational advancement.

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12
California Alliance of Caregivers

California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Monterey County; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT SYSTEMS & PLANNING ASSOCIATION: $1,350,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT SYSTEMS & PLANNING ASSOCI…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY: $175,000 · OtherCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADV…AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS: $52,000 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF L…MILPA: $48,474 · OtherMILPARaiseRight Holdings Inc: $44,363 · OtherRaiseRight Holdings IncNEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH OF SALINAS CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA CHICANO NEWS MEDIA ASSOC ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism: $25,000 · OtherTRUE WAY OF LIVING OUTREACH: $25,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF…ALISAL CENTER FOR THE FINE ARTS: $27,250 · OtherHEROES LINKED: $25,000 · Other+8 more: $105,840 · Other+8 moreCentro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno: $220,000 · InternationalCentro Bi…YOUTH ALLIANCE: $131,302 · Crime & LegalMONTEREY COUNTY SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNC: $46,359 · Crime & LegalCOPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action: $143,000 · ReligionEMMANUEL PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD: $25,000 · ReligionValley Onward: $100,350 · Human ServicesWORLD OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesVictory Mission: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $75,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $22,956 · Philanthropy
Housing & Shelter$1,350,000Other$602,927International$220,000Crime & Legal$177,661Religion$168,000Human Services$150,350Philanthropy$97,956

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT SYSTEMS & PLANNING ASSOCIATION: $1,350,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCentro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno: $220,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCOPA Communities Organized for Ralational Power in Action in Action: $143,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetYOUTH ALLIANCE: $131,302 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGS: $52,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILPA: $48,474 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMONTEREY COUNTY SHERIFF'S ADVISORY COUNC: $46,359 over 1y, 32% of budgetALISAL CENTER FOR THE FINE ARTS: $27,250 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHEROES LINKED: $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetVictory Mission: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $22,956 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The California Endowm…Latino Community Foun…The James Irvine Foun…The David and Lucile …Sunlight GivingMonterey Peninsula Fo…Sierra Health Foundat…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The California EndowmentCA26.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Action Council of Monterey County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Action Council of Monterey County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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