· Public charity
Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc
To create beautiful running events that promote health and benefit our community.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $127k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG SUR HEALTH CENTER | $39,000 |
| BIG SUR VOLUNTEER FIRE BRIGADE | $38,000 |
| WHITE STAG LEADERSHIP | $19,850 |
| MID-COAST FIRE BRIGADE | $18,250 |
| MONTEREY PENINSULA COLLEGE | $11,650 |
| CALIF STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY | $9,900 |
| MONTEREY HIGH SCHOOL | $9,650 |
| CAPTAIN COOPER PARENTS CLUB | $9,500 |
| CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL | $9,350 |
| BIG SUR UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST | $7,500 |
| PACIFIC GROVE HIGH SCHOOL | $7,350 |
| WEDNESDAY NIGHT LAUNDRY RUNNERS OF MONTEREY COUNTY | $7,000 |
| CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS | $6,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Big Sur Health Center Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $229k · revenue +85%- BSBig Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade6× · 2017–2024 · $224k · revenue +216%
- WSWHITE STAG LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY7× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +294%
Funded once
- MPMONTEREY PENINSULA REGIONAL PARK DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $28k
- SASeaside Aquatics Clubone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -5%
- TDTHE DIOCESE OF MONTEREY PARISH AND SCHOOL OPERATING CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
Ballot measure for Santa Cruz County in California aimed at safeguarding water quality, preserving clean ocean and beach areas, reducing wildfire risks, protecting forests, enhancing wildlife habitats, and improving community spaces.
Under contract with the State of California, Point Cabrillo Lightkeepers Association (PCLK) manages, interprets, and maintains the Point Cabrillo Light Station, a State Historic Park and site listed in the National Registry of Historic…
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
Coastal Ranches Conservancy supports nature conservation, restoration, and education along the Gaviota Coast
To provide free, high quality fire and emergency medical response to the people of and visitors to the Cachagua Valley and surrounding areas.
Fort Ross Conservancy (FRC) is the not-for-profit partner of the Russian River Sector, Sonoma/Mendocino District of California State Parks. FRC works to preserve the nature and culture of the Sonoma Coast for the benefit of the public.
Mendocino Coast Clinics
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.
The mission is to bring resources to the coastal hills community to create a healthier and safer forest where all residents flourish.
To conserve lands for recreational, educational, ecological, agricultural, scenic & open space opportunities. We develop & maintain public access ways & trails to the ocean, rivers & other natural or scenic features along coastal Mendocino…
The mission of the Big Sur Land Trust is to inspire love of the land and conservation of our treasured landscapes.
Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship is creating and maintaining world-class trails responsibly, sustainably, and collectively.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Big Sur Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WHITE STAG LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MID COAST FIRE BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ↗
- Who funds Seaside Aquatics Club ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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