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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.

$6.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
116
Itemized grants FY2024
77
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$6.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,392,651
Organizations funded a year
58 to 103
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
21
Total assets, FY2024
$29M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Community Foundation for San Benito County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $371k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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 arriving113$6.1M26%
FY202377$3.9M18%
FY2022103$4.4M32%
FY202183$2.0M35%
FY202089$2.6M44%
FY201979$2.2M39%
FY201858$2.0M47%
FY201762$1.4Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$28MFood & Nutrition$8.2MEnvironment$5.2MEducation$2.2MHuman Services$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.5MScience & Tech$929kArts & Culture$891kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

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

Show all 242 grantees
All grantees of Community Foundation for San Benito County by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Benito County Heritage Foundation$1,517,651481%
Ecdysis Foundation$966,250721%
Paicines Ranch Learning Center$750,000583%
California Farmlink$607,50075%
Carbon Cycle Institute$520,001519%
BenitoLink Inc$485,514832%
Earth Island Institute Inc$472,50051%
Community Alliance With Family Farmers$468,57274%
Savanna Institute$410,000628%
Wolfe's Neck Farm Foundation$400,00052%
Women Food & Agriculture Network$385,000724%
Holistic Manangement International$355,00076%
Threshold Foundation$353,00074%
Sustainable Economies Law Center$345,00062%
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation$340,00045%
Pet Friends and Rescue$326,439730%
Quivira Coalition Inc$320,00076%
Higher Purpose Hub$310,00038%
National Young Farmers Coalition Inc$305,71351%
Central Coast Young Mens Christian Association$302,23773%
Meridian Institute$300,00051%
Emmaus House$299,249828%
Sustainable Markets Foundation$279,50051%
Cruces Creatives$265,000317%
Bionutrient Food Association Inc$265,000429%
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center$264,28653%
Community Services Unlimited Inc$255,70033%
Pie Ranch$250,00034%
Good Meat Project$240,000230%
Sacred Heart School of Hollister Foundation Inc$237,0908n/a
Multiplier$235,00031%
Oregon State University Foundation$232,44080%
The University Foundation California State University Chico$230,00031%
Possibility Labs$228,00020%
Community Food Bank of San Benito County$223,98272%
Court Appointed Special Advocate of San Benito County Inc$221,151832%
Fibershed$200,00065%
Jubilee Justice Inc$200,00026%
Common Future$200,0001n/a
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability$192,85641%
Croatan Institute$170,00045%
Chamberlain's Youth Services$167,32551%
Land Stewardship Project$165,00052%
Sun Street Centers$162,48471%
Civil Eats$155,00037%
Intertribal Agriculture Council$150,00031%
The New Mexico Farmers Marketing Association$150,00043%
New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc$150,00020%
Climate Change Leadership Institute$150,000437%
Esperanza Community Farms Inc$150,000217%
Organic Farming Research Foundation$140,00044%
San Diego Food System Alliance$135,00034%
Rotary Club of Hollister$132,313610%
Infact DBA Corporate Accountability$130,00021%
Hazel Hawkins Hospital Foundation$127,31475%
San Benito County Historical Society$127,034471%
Hawaii Investment Ready$125,00027%
Point Reyes Bird Observatory$120,00040%
San Benito County Arts Council$113,189610%
Ojai Valley Firesafe Council Inc$110,060311%
Jovenes de Antano del Condado de San Benito$107,44373%
Girls Incorporated of the Central Coast$105,35164%
Bull Dog Boxing Gym Inc$101,192439%
Chico State Enterprises$100,00010%
Southwest Grassfed Livestock Alliance$100,0004n/a
Community Water Center$100,00021%
The Peoples Land Fund$100,00012%
Women in Ranching Inc$100,000136%
San Benito Stage Company$98,439543%
La Semilla Food Center$98,00022%
Western Landowners Alliance$98,00043%
Seneca Family of Agencies$96,62360%
Central Coast Vna & Hospice Inc$95,47510%
Kansas Permaculture Institute$88,0001n/a
Ventures$88,00042%
San Benito Agricultural Land Trust$87,246548%
San Benito County Chamber of Commerce Foundation$85,000448%
Land Core$85,00029%
The Salvation Army World Service Office$84,66550%
San Benito Resource Conservation District$81,5001n/a
Ompompanoosuc Community Trust Inc$80,0001n/a
Ccof Foundation$80,00022%
Ecotrust$80,00031%
Agriculture and Land Based Training Association$80,00022%
Sustainable Conservation$80,00021%
Soil Carbon Coalition$79,0863n/a
Center for Rural Affairs$75,00030%
Sonoma State University$75,0001n/a
Zero Foodprint$75,00023%
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders$75,00022%
California Association of Resource Conservation Districts$74,28631%
Partnership for Children$71,26775%
Community Homeless Solutions$71,20051%
San Benito County Robotics$70,9493n/a
Youth Alliance$69,44051%
Coopers Calling$68,175342%
Valley Verde$65,000312%
Organic Association of Kentucky$65,000224%
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association$64,00021%
United Way of Santa Cruz County$61,92931%
Inquiring Systems Inc$60,00011%
International Indian Treaty Council Inc$60,00032%
Northern Plains Resource Council$60,00022%
Mission San Juan Bautista Preservation Fund$59,595411%
Girl Scouts of California's Central Coast$57,94441%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Monterey$57,7355n/a
Hollister Community Outreach$57,65531%
California State University Fresno Foundation$55,00020%
Family Agriculture Resource Management Services$50,000123%
Jacobs Heart Childrens Cancer Support Services$50,00041%
Foodlink for Tulare County Inc$50,00011%
Farmfolkcityfolk Society$50,0001n/a
Movement Strategy Center$50,00010%
First Nations Development Institute$50,00010%
Food System 6 Accelerator Inc$50,00014%
Hillbrook School$50,00010%
E Cubed Foundation$48,6506n/a
Land Together Dba Insight Garden Program$45,00021%
Community Solutions for Children Families and Individuals$45,00040%
I Have a Dream Foundation$45,0001n/a
Martha's Kitchen$44,00040%
The Diocese of Monterey Parish and School Operating Corporation$43,4082n/a
Jasper Ridge Farm$42,50026%
Senior Citizens Legal Services$41,62327%
Hollister Downtown Association$41,42439%
Health Projects Center$41,27840%
Cooperacin Santa Ana$40,00012%
Spirit of San Juan Bautista Ca$38,9004n/a
League of United Latin America Citizens$38,7853n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$38,02230%
Potlikker Capital$37,50012%
California Federation of Womens Clubs$36,3604n/a
Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance$35,000110%
Center on Race Poverty & the Environment$35,00011%
Sustainable Iowa Land Trust$35,0001n/a
Cascade Pacific RC&D Area$35,00011%
Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation$35,00011%
Community Housing Improvement Systems & Planning Association$33,40020%
The Dreampower Foundation$33,25019%
Gospa Prayer House$30,000111%
Community Movement Builders Inc$30,00012%
Sharing Our Roots$30,00015%
Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties$30,00040%
Roots of Resilience$30,0002n/a
One Montana$30,00018%
Reunity Resources$30,00012%
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation$30,00010%
Hollister Pregnancy Center$29,43647%
Jmm Dance Co$27,2103n/a
Spay Neuter Imperative Project California$27,00032%
One Step Closer Therapeutic Horsemanship Inc$25,000119%
Priestly Fraternity of St Peter Inc$25,0001n/a
Wozu Inc$25,00011%
Green Umbrella$25,00013%
Regents of the University of California$25,0001n/a
Hope Services$24,48520%
Family Service Agency of the Central Coast$24,00031%
California Polytechnic State University Foundation$23,25030%
University of California Berkeley Foundation$23,00020%
Rotary Club of San Juan Bautista$22,3511n/a
Native Daughters of the Golden West Charitable Foundation Inc$21,96125%
Growing Hearts Garden Center$21,0001n/a
Community Media Access Partnership$20,63532%
Be Present Inc$20,4002n/a
Southside Parent Club$20,3382n/a
Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc$20,00010%
Forage Inc$20,00015%
Boy Scouts of America$18,98420%
Hollister United Methodist Church$18,6502n/a
The Uc Davis Foundation$18,50010%
Rozas House Org Inc$17,5002n/a
Junior Achievement USA$16,66820%
California Association of Student Councils$16,00032%
Gavilan College Education Foundation$16,00032%
World Central Kitchen Inc$15,60010%
Reach San Benito Foundation$15,2172n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$15,12020%
From The Heart Productions$15,00010%
Turning Green$15,00011%
Breast Cancer Assistance Group$14,81223%
Clean Water Fund$14,28610%
University of California Santa Barbara$12,8002n/a
Student Union of San Jose State University$12,50020%
Ekvnv Yefolecvlke$12,00010%
San Benito County Community Services Development Corporation$12,00020%
Community Initiatives$12,00010%
Savory Instituteorg Inc$11,76010%
Visit San Benito County$11,0001n/a
Economic Development Corporation of San Benito County$10,88114%
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay$10,70020%
Slow Money Institute Inc$10,00012%
Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen$10,00010%
Honor the Earth$10,00010%
Slow Food USA Inc$10,0001n/a
Community Focus Center$10,0001n/a
Bee Girl$10,00017%
I Have a Dream Foundation - Los Angeles$10,00011%
San Juan Home & School Club$10,0001n/a
Latino Center of Art and Culture$10,00013%
Agrarian Land Trust$10,00013%
Kitchen Table Advisors$10,0001n/a
Mary Velasco Sellen Senior Center$10,0001n/a
Alzheimer Association$10,0001n/a
Resist Inc$10,00010%
Grand Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles$10,00010%
St Francis Retreat Center$10,0001n/a
Center for Farmworker Families$10,00012%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc$9,95511%
Spring Valley Volunteer Fire Department$9,72114%
The Manager$8,5001n/a
San Benito County Farm Bureau$8,50015%
Service Dogs by Warren Retrievers$8,34411%
Cat Crew California$8,00015%
Latino Coalition of San Benito County$8,0001n/a
San Benito Youth Soccer League$8,00018%
People Food and Land Foundation$8,00015%
Public Media Institute$8,0001n/a
San Benito County Police Activities League$7,8751n/a
Queens Best Stumpy Dog Rescue$7,50016%
San Benito Babe Ruth$7,1751n/a
Guitars Not Guns Inc$7,00018%
Hollister Razorback Wrestling Inc$7,0001n/a
San Benito Citizens for a Brighter Future$7,000135%
Easter Seals Central California$7,00010%
Bulldog Boxing$6,3261n/a
Presbyterian Cooperative Preschool$6,00015%
Agri-Culture Inc$6,00013%
William Marsh Rice University$6,00010%
California State University Channel Islands Foundation$5,55010%
Little Tree Community a Wildflower Montessori School$5,50015%
Niagara University$5,50010%
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9242$5,50014%
Eden Housing Inc$5,40010%
Small Steps Foundation$5,250173%
First 5 San Benito$5,0001n/a
Friends of the Petaluma River$5,00012%
Skidmore College$5,00010%
Coastal Kids Home Care$5,00010%
Multinational Exchange For Sustainable A MESA andor MESA Inc$5,00011%
San Benito County Business Council Inc$5,00019%
Dentistry 4 Vets$5,00011%
The Refugee Collective$5,00011%

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($324k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Community Foundation for San Benito County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 19 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 196 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Benito County Heritage Foundation: $1,517,651 over 4y, 81% of budgetEcdysis Foundation: $966,250 over 7y, 21% of budgetPaicines Ranch Learning Center: $750,000 over 5y, 83% of budgetCalifornia Farmlink: $607,500 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetCarbon Cycle Institute: $520,001 over 5y, 19% of budgetBenitoLink Inc: $485,514 over 8y, 32% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $472,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Alliance With Family Farmers: $468,572 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetSavanna Institute: $410,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetWolfe's Neck Farm Foundation: $400,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetWomen Food & Agriculture Network: $385,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetHolistic Manangement International: $355,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetThreshold Foundation: $353,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetSustainable Economies Law Center: $345,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetRegenerative Agriculture Foundation: $340,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetPet Friends and Rescue: $326,439 over 7y, 30% of budgetQuivira Coalition Inc: $320,000 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetHigher Purpose Hub: $310,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetNational Young Farmers Coalition Inc: $305,713 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCentral Coast Young Mens Christian Association: $302,237 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetMeridian Institute: $300,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetEmmaus House: $299,249 over 8y, 28% of budgetSustainable Markets Foundation: $279,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCruces Creatives: $265,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetBionutrient Food Association Inc: $265,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetOccidental Arts and Ecology Center: $264,286 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetCommunity Services Unlimited Inc: $255,700 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetPie Ranch: $250,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetGood Meat Project: $240,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetMultiplier: $235,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $232,440 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe University Foundation California State University Chico: $230,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPossibility Labs: $228,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Food Bank of San Benito County: $223,982 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocate of San Benito County Inc: $221,151 over 8y, 32% of budgetFibershed: $200,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetJubilee Justice Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetLeadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability: $192,856 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCroatan Institute: $170,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetChamberlain's Youth Services: $167,325 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetLand Stewardship Project: $165,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSun Street Centers: $162,484 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCivil Eats: $155,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetIntertribal Agriculture Council: $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe New Mexico Farmers Marketing Association: $150,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetClimate Change Leadership Institute: $150,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetEsperanza Community Farms Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 17% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 196.

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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.

Monterey Peninsula FoundationCA74.1× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Community Foundation for San Benito County

How much does Community Foundation for San Benito County give?
Community Foundation for San Benito County reported 116 itemized grants totaling $6,233,888, out of $6,727,189 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 103 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Community Foundation for San Benito County fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (53%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Environment (10%).
Who are Community Foundation for San Benito County's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: San Benito County Heritage Foundation ($1.5M), Ecdysis Foundation ($966k), Paicines Ranch Learning Center ($750k).
Does Community Foundation for San Benito County fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation for San Benito County?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Peninsula Foundation, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Globetrotter Foundation.
Where is Community Foundation for San Benito County based?
Community Foundation for San Benito County 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 274 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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