· Private foundation
Barnet Segal Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $570k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG SUR LAND TRUST | $200,000 |
| CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| ELKHORN SLOUGH FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| PACIFIC REPERATORY THEATRE | $70,000 |
| AG LAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY | $15,000 |
| MONTEREY COUNTY LAND WATCH | $15,000 |
| CARMEL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HARMONY AT HOME | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE SALINAS VALLEY INC | $5,000 |
| MONTEREY COUNTY POPS INC | $5,000 |
| BATCH FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MISSION TRAIL NATURE PRESERVE | $5,000 |
| 4 DENTISTRY | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL COAST VNA & HOSPICE | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- BSBig Sur Land Trust5× · 2017–2025 · $452k · revenue +101%
- ESElkhorn Slough Foundation4× · 2017–2025 · $343k · revenue +224%
- CPCARMEL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +930%
Funded once
- MHMONTAGE HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +538%
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTEREY BAY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- CMCHOMP/ MONTAGUE HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
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 improve the economic health and quality of life in the monterey bay region.
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.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.
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.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
To inspire philanthropy and be a catalyst for strengthening communities throughout monterey county.
To ensure the right of the public to access and respectfully enjoy the California Coast. To work for the completion of the California Coastal Trail and to educate the public about the coast and ocean resources.
To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Land Trust of Santa Cruz County and the most unlike its peers is Carmel Art Association. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 121 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 Big Sur Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Elkhorn Slough Foundation ↗
- Who funds CARMEL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SHINE TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds Monterey County Land Watch ↗
- Who funds AG LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Carmel Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HARMONY AT HOME ↗
- Who funds Carmel Art Association ↗
- Who funds NATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Girls Incorporated of the Central Coast ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve ↗
- Who funds COASTAL KIDS HOME CARE ↗
- Who funds VETERANS TRANSITION CENTER OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds VENTANA WILDERNESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CARMEL YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY CENTER OF MONTEREY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MUSIC MONTEREY ↗
- Who funds HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE YORK SCHOOL ↗
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 · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Arts Council for Monterey County · Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · Alexander F Victor Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Tanimura Family Foundation · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman 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 Barnet Segal Charitable Trust 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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