California · Public charity
Arts Council for Monterey County
The council promotes and supports education, appreciation and excellence in the arts in monterey county by fostering cultural awareness and understanding. In addition, the council provides for an array of aesthetic and educational experiences for adults and children.
- $456k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $291k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 35
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Arts Council for Monterey County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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 | 37 | $291k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $233k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $117k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $154k | 88% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $87k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palenke Arts | $47,130 | 5 | 6% |
| Monterey Jazz Festival | $44,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Action Council of Monterey County Inc | $43,953 | 3 | 0% |
| New Canon Theatre Company | $38,525 | 3 | 12% |
| Alisal Center for the Fine Arts | $32,650 | 3 | 8% |
| First Night Monterey | $31,050 | 4 | 5% |
| Sol Treasures Inc | $27,600 | 4 | 2% |
| Musikiwest Inc | $23,650 | 3 | 19% |
| Carl Cherry Foundation | $23,300 | 3 | 8% |
| Hijos del Sol Arts Productions | $21,750 | 3 | 6% |
Show all 64 grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arts Council for Monterey County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 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: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Barnet Segal Charitable Trust · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Alexander F Victor Foundation · William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Theatre Trust
How this is measured
About Arts Council for Monterey County
- How much does Arts Council for Monterey County give?
- Arts Council for Monterey County reported 37 itemized grants totaling $291,000, out of $455,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 35 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Arts Council for Monterey County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Health (2%), Youth Development (2%).
- Who are Arts Council for Monterey County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Palenke Arts ($47k), Monterey Jazz Festival ($44k), Action Council of Monterey County Inc ($44k).
- Does Arts Council for Monterey County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arts Council for Monterey County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation, Barnet Segal Charitable Trust.
- Where is Arts Council for Monterey County based?
- Arts Council for Monterey County is based in CA.
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