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Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc

To create beautiful running events that promote health and benefit our community.

$393k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Itemized grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
46%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$194k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$9,650
Largest grant, FY2024
$39,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$6.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22’23
Arts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$194k15%
FY202313$188k46%
FY20227$148k29%
FY20202$15k0%
FY201910$154k40%
FY20186$127k17%
FY20176$128kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$444kHealth$229kPhilanthropy$125kRecreation & Sports$118kYouth Development$116kEducation$102kArts & Culture$31kHuman Services$18kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Big Sur Health Center Inc$228,65065%
Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade$223,65064%
White Stag Leadership Development Academy$115,700718%
Mid Coast Fire Brigade$110,250616%
Captain Cooper Parents Club$60,0006n/a
Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District$28,3861n/a
Wednesday Night Laundry Runners of Monterey County$19,5003n/a
Central Coast Lighthouse Keepers$19,50035%
Pacific Grove Middle School$16,1502n/a
Monterey Peninsula College$11,6501n/a
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All grantees of Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Big Sur Health Center Inc$228,65065%
Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade$223,65064%
White Stag Leadership Development Academy$115,700718%
Mid Coast Fire Brigade$110,250616%
Captain Cooper Parents Club$60,0006n/a
Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District$28,3861n/a
Wednesday Night Laundry Runners of Monterey County$19,5003n/a
Central Coast Lighthouse Keepers$19,50035%
Pacific Grove Middle School$16,1502n/a
Monterey Peninsula College$11,6501n/a
Big Sur Unified School District Dba Pacific Valley School$7,5001n/a
Seaside Aquatics Club$6,25012%
The Diocese of Monterey Parish and School Operating Corporation$6,2501n/a
United Evangelical Church$6,0001n/a

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($94k), not named here.

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 Food & Wine Foundation IncCA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Big Sur Food & Wine Foundation Inc · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc

How much does Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc give?
Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc reported 13 itemized grants totaling $193,500, out of $392,510 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (37%), Health (19%), Philanthropy (11%).
Who are Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Big Sur Health Center Inc ($229k), Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade ($224k), White Stag Leadership Development Academy ($116k).
Does Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Big Sur Food & Wine Foundation Inc, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey Peninsula Foundation.
Where is Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc based?
Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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