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Big Sur Food & Wine Foundation Inc
The BIG SUR FOOD & WINE FOUNDATION INC.
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Big Sur Food & Wine Foundation Inc’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 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Big Sur Food & Wine Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $204k. 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $204,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $224,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,000 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Big Sur Fire | $52,000 |
| Big Sur Health Center | $52,000 |
| Henry Miller Library | $17,000 |
| Mid Coast Fire Brigade | $16,000 |
| Captain Cooper School - Parents Club | $11,500 |
| Pacific Valley Schools | $11,500 |
| Big Sur Park School | $11,500 |
| Community Association of Big Sur | $10,000 |
| Fiddle camp | $8,500 |
| Esselen Tribe | $8,500 |
| Big Sur Grange | $5,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% 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
Big Sur Health Center Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $237k · revenue +85%- BSBig Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade5× · 2018–2023 · $189k · revenue +37%
- HMHenry Miller Memorial Library5× · 2018–2023 · $62k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- APApple Pie Pre-Schoolone grant, 2018 · $6k
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 engage in and further the protection of the environment in and around the Big Sur area, to educate the community of Big Sur and the public regarding land use and environmental issues, to ensure the protection of the landscape through…
The Emile Norman Arts Foundation shines a light on the cultural influence of Big Sur through the lens of American artist Emile Normans work and philosophy. We host exhibitions concerts and gatherings at Emiles handcrafted mid-century Big…
The mission of the Big Sur Land Trust is to inspire love of the land and conservation of our treasured landscapes.
The big sur food & wine foundation inc. was created to educate the public about the quality and variety of food and drink produced on the central coast of california (with emphasis on the abundance of produce and wines available in and…
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 Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade and the most unlike its peers is Grange of the State of Ca Order of Patrons of Husbandry Charter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 14 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 Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Henry Miller Memorial Library ↗
- Who funds MID COAST FIRE BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds BIG SUR PARK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Esselen Tribe of Monterey County ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR ↗
- Who funds Big Sur Fiddle Camp ↗
- Who funds Big Share Inc ↗
- Who funds GRANGE OF THE STATE OF CA ORDER OF PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY CHARTER ↗
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.
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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 Big Sur Food & Wine Foundation 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.
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