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Alexander F Victor Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of Alexander F Victor Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For Monterey County, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Alexander F Victor Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 27 organizations, $184k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k35 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY C | $50,000 |
| MONTEREY PENINSULA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF MONTEREY | $10,000 |
| CARMEL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MONTEREY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| NAVAL POST GRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATI | $10,000 |
| GATHERING FOR WOMEN | $7,000 |
| COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES | $5,000 |
| LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MONTEREY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| JOSEPHINE KERNES MEMORIAL POOL | $5,000 |
| MONTEREY RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $4,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF MONTEREY PENINSULA | $4,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF CA CENTRAL COAST | $3,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
46 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- RCRotary Club of Monterey4× · 2018–2021 · $70k · revenue +38% · 34% of their budget
- NPNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +327%
- LSLEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- TPThe Panetta Institute for Public Policygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +44%
- MIMIDDLEBURY INSTITUE OF INTL STUDIESone grant, 2018 · $5k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
To inspire and facilitate film and media production throughout monterey county, creating positive economic impact.
Fostering the passion and development of local youth through the performing arts, where talents and life skills may grow in an inspiring and nurturing environment.
To improve the economic health and quality of life in the monterey bay region.
Community hospital of the monterey peninsula is dedicated to identifying and meeting the changing healthcare needs of the people of the monterey peninsula and surrounding communities.we are committed to providing high-quality services at a…
Passionately deliver relevant products, services, and education tailored to help our members, employees, and communities achieve their financial goals.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
To provide support services to the community hospital of the monterey peninsula and its affiliates.
The mission of the housing resource center (hrc) of monterey county is to provide a continuum of housing resources for homeless prevention and affordable housing opportunities. hrc fosters community stability, stronger communities, and…
To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.
Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…
The vision of the monterey county fair heritage foundation is to ensure the future of the monterey county fair and event center as a vibrant and diverse community venue.
To offer a quality, tuition-free montessori education that challenges our students to reach their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Monterey County and the most unlike its peers is Pass the Word Ministry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 57 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 FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Monterey ↗
- Who funds Monterey Peninsula College Foundation ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHINE KERNES MEMORIAL POOL ↗
- Who funds NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS ↗
- Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County ↗
- Who funds The Carmel Foundation ↗
- Who funds POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GATHERING FOR WOMEN - MONTEREY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The Panetta Institute for Public Policy ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds OLD MONTEREY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY CENTER OF MONTEREY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds One Starfish ↗
- Who funds Carmel Bach Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MUSIC MONTEREY ↗
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: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Barnet Segal Charitable Trust · Arts Council for Monterey County · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · Mildred Hitchcock Huff Charitable Trust · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Frank and Judith Marshall Foundation · The Tyler 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 Alexander F Victor Foundation 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.
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