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Big Sur Food & Wine Foundation Inc

The BIG SUR FOOD & WINE FOUNDATION INC.

$224k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

6
’18
5
’19
7
’21
10
’22
11
’23
5
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$244kHealth$237kEducation$186kPhilanthropy$92kArts & Culture$39kEnvironment$18kFood & Nutrition$16k
02FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $204,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $224,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,000 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $104k
$11,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$17k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Mid Coast Fire Brigade: $16k → 12%Mid Coast Fire Brigade: $15k → 12%Mid Coast Fire Brigade: $10k → 12%Mid Coast Fire Brigade: $8k → 12%Mid Coast Fire Brigade: $6k → 12%Community Foundation for Monterey County: $92k → 12%Esselen Tribe: $9k → 12%Esselen Tribe: $8k → 12%Esselen Tribe: $6k → 12%Big Sur Fire: $52k → 12%Big Sur Health Center: $52k → 12%Big Sur Health Center: $50k → 12%Big Sur Fire: $50k → 12%Big Sur Health Center: $48k → 12%Big Sur Fire: $45k → 12%Big Sur Health Center: $45k → 12%Big Sur Health Center: $25k → 12%Big Sur Fire: $25k → 12%Henry Miller Library: $17k → 12%Big Sur Health Center: $17k → 12%Big Sur Fire: $17k → 12%Henry Miller Library: $15k → 12%Captain Cooper School - Parents Club: $12k → 12%Big Sur Park School: $12k → 12%Pacific Valley Schools: $12k → 12%Pacific Valley Schools: $10k → 12%The Big Share inc: $10k → 12%Pacific Valley Schools: $10k → 12%Big Sur Park School: $10k → 12%Captain Cooper School - Parents Club: $10k → 12%Henry Miller Library: $10k → 12%Community Association of Big Sur: $10k → 12%Captain Cooper School - Parents Club: $10k → 12%Henry Miller Library: $10k → 12%Henry Miller Library: $10k → 12%Captain Cooper School - Parents Club: $9k → 12%Fiddle camp: $9k → 12%Community Association of Big Sur: $8k → 12%Fiddle camp: $8k → 12%Pacific Valley Schools: $6k → 12%Big Sur Park School: $6k → 12%Apple Pie Pre-School: $6k → 12%Captain Cooper School - Parents Club: $6k → 12%Big Sur Park School: $6k → 12%Big Sur Grange: $6k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$717k · 10 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$717k
$6k

Still filing today

70%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • Big Sur Health Center Inc
    6× · 2018–2024 · $237k · revenue +85%
  • BS
    Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade
    5× · 2018–2023 · $189k · revenue +216%
  • HM
    Henry Miller Memorial Library
    5× · 2018–2023 · $62k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • AP
    Apple Pie Pre-School
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
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
Keep Big Sur Wild

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…

Environment
2
Emile Norman Arts Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
3
The Sea Ranch Thespians
Arts & Culture
4
Big Sur Land Trust

The mission of the Big Sur Land Trust is to inspire love of the land and conservation of our treasured landscapes.

Environment
5
Big Sur Food & Wine Foundation Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
Casa Abrego Preservation Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
8
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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9
Santa Cruz Community Farmers Market

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.

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10
Monterey Bay United
Recreation & Sports
11
San Francisco Basque Folkloric Groups
Arts & Culture
12
Encinal Sailing Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Big Sur Health Center Inc: $236,500 · OtherBig Sur Health Center IncBig Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade: $188,500 · OtherBig Sur Volunteer Fire BrigadeCAPTAIN COOPER PARENTS CLUB: $46,500 · OtherCAPTAIN COOPER PARENTS CLUBBIG SUR UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT DBA PACIFIC VALLEY SCHOOL: $37,500 · OtherBIG SUR UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT DBA PACIFIC VALLEY SCHOOLCOMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR: $18,000 · Other+2 more: $11,500 · OtherHenry Miller Memorial Library: $62,000 · Arts & CultureHenry Miller …Esselen Tribe of Monterey County: $22,500 · Arts & CultureEsselen Tribe…Big Sur Fiddle Camp: $16,500 · Arts & CultureBig Sur Fiddl…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $92,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FO…MID COAST FIRE BRIGADE: $55,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBIG SUR PARK SCHOOL INC: $33,500 · EducationBig Share Inc: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$538,500Arts & Culture$101,000Philanthropy$92,000Public Safety & Disaster$55,000Education$33,500Food & Nutrition$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBig Sur Health Center Inc: $236,500 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetBig Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade: $188,500 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $92,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHenry Miller Memorial Library: $62,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetMID COAST FIRE BRIGADE: $55,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetBIG SUR PARK SCHOOL INC: $33,500 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetEsselen Tribe of Monterey County: $22,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR: $18,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBig Sur Fiddle Camp: $16,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetBig Share Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 15% 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.

Big Sur Marathon Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Big Sur Marathon Foundation IncCA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · 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 Big Sur Food & Wine Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Big Sur Food & Wine Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Big Sur Food & Wine Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Big Sur Food & Wine Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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