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Community Foundation for San Benito County
The COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SAN BENITO COUNTY is dedicated to building a stronger community and enhancing the quality of life in san benito county through the support of philanthropic activities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 116 grants below total $6,233,888 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,727,189 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $493,301 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $194k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $956k
- $50k–250k40 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN BENITO COUNTY HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $1,392,651 |
| ECDYSIS FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| CARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE | $205,000 |
| PAICINES RANCH LEARNING CENTER | $200,000 |
| EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE | $175,000 |
| WOMEN'S FOOD AND AGRICULTURE NETWORK | $175,000 |
| PIE RANCH | $150,000 |
| POSSIBILITY LABS | $119,000 |
| UNITED FOR SAN BENITO | $111,500 |
| HIGHER PURPOSE CO | $100,000 |
| INFACT DBA CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS | $100,000 |
| ESPERANZA COMMUNITY FARMS | $100,000 |
| INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| PET FRIENDS AND RESCUE | $97,300 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +61% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
140 repeat relationships — 84 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 29 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $734k 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
- EFECDYSIS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $966k · revenue +623%
- PRPAICINES RANCH LEARNING CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $750k · revenue +207% · 83% of their budget
- CFCALIFORNIA FARMLINK7× · 2017–2024 · $608k · revenue +200%
Funded once
- CFCOMMON FUTUREgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +46%
- WIWOMEN IN RANCHING INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +62% · 36% of their budget
- CSChico State Enterprisesgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +55%
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.
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
Within the Americas promoting dialogue and research, producing studies and reports, conducting courses and conferences particularly in the areas of agroecology and food security
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.
The primary and specific purpose for which the said corporation is formed is to empower individuals, businesses and communities to take actions today that achieve environmental and economic sustainability. The activities of the corporation…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
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.
We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
The mission of the agricultural institute of marin is to educate, inspire, and connect communities, farmers, and producers in order to create a healthy, earth-friendly, equitable local and regional food and agricultural system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holistic Manangement International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
215 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. 215 of the 274 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds San Benito County Heritage Foundation ↗
- Who funds ECDYSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAICINES RANCH LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FARMLINK ↗
- Who funds CARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BenitoLink Inc ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS ↗
- Who funds SAVANNA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SAN BENITO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Wolfe's Neck Farm Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC MANANGEMENT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Economies Law Center ↗
- Who funds REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pet Friends and Rescue ↗
- Who funds QUIVIRA COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Higher Purpose Hub ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Meridian Institute ↗
- Who funds Emmaus House ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIONUTRIENT FOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRUCES CREATIVES ↗
- Who funds Occidental Arts and Ecology Center ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds PIE RANCH ↗
- Who funds GOOD MEAT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds The University Foundation California State University Chico ↗
- Who funds POSSIBILITY LABS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SAN BENITO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocate of San Benito County Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMON FUTURE ↗
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 · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Globetrotter Foundation · Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Patagoniaorg · Clif Family Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The L G Anderson Family Foundation Inc · UNFI Foundation · Marin Community 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 Community Foundation for San Benito County 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.
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
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.