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Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

$23M
Granted FY2024still arriving
303
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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.

Health$25MEducation$18MEnvironment$17MHuman Services$10MPhilanthropy$10MArts & Culture$8.8MFood & Nutrition$7.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$6.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 303 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 303 grants below total $20,690,367, the rows itemized in this filing. The $22,817,447 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,127,080 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k60 grants · $410k
  • $10k–50k159 grants · $3.1M
  • $50k–250k69 grants · $6.9M
  • $250k+15 grants · $10M
$20,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$252M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$2,808,979
LAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY$1,260,876
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF MONTEREY$1,063,000
THE 418 PROJECT$937,047
PAJARO VALLEY HEALTHCARE DISTRICT PROJECT (DBA WATSONVILLE COMMUNITY HOSPIT$554,500
CAL POLY FOUNDATION$505,000
CABRILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$457,993
SANTA CRUZ SHAKESPEARE$430,595
UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION$400,000
SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY HEALTH$367,673
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY$351,306
ELKHORN SLOUGH FOUNDATION$316,955
TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$308,000
RICE UNIVERSITY$260,000
COUNTY PARK FRIENDS$259,676
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $8.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REDLANDS CHRISTIAN MIGRANT ASSOCIATION: $70k → 10%OASIS IN BAJA INC: $49k → 4%CELEBRITY ADVENTURES: $100k → 11%POSITIVE DISCIPLINE COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $55k → 15%UNITED FOOD BANK OF PLANT CITY: $75k → 13%WATSONVILLE WOMEN'S CLUB FOUNDATION: $56k → 13%THE CALI PROJECT (COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR LIFELONG INDEPENDENCE): $96k → 13%THE CALI PROJECT (COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR LIFELONG INDEPENDENCE): $75k → 13%SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES: $45k → 13%CASA DE LA CULTURA CENTER: $223k → 13%MONARCH SERVICES: $150k → 13%FAMILIES IN TRANSITION INC: $145k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $141k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $136k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $117k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $115k → 13%WATSONVILLE LAW CENTER: $77k → 13%CASA DE LA CULTURA CENTER: $76k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $68k → 13%FAMILIES IN TRANSITION INC: $66k → 13%WATSONVILLE LAW CENTER: $60k → 13%YWCA OF WATSONVILLE: $58k → 13%CASA DE LA CULTURA CENTER: $57k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $54k → 13%MONARCH SERVICES: $51k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $46k → 13%FAMILIES IN TRANSITION INC: $46k → 13%FAMILIES IN TRANSITION INC: $46k → 13%ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1.4M → 13%ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1.1M → 13%SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY VENTURES: $136k → 13%ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $132k → 13%NEW WAY HOMES: $100k → 13%SIENA HOUSE: $83k → 13%WALNUT AVENUE FAMILY & WOMEN'S CENTER: $57k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $54k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $53k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $52k → 13%WALNUT AVENUE FAMILY & WOMEN'S CENTER: $52k → 13%LONG TERM RECOVERY GROUP OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $51k → 13%ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 13%ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $49k → 13%GREY BEARS: $204k → 13%GREY BEARS: $77k → 13%GREY BEARS INC: $61k → 13%GREY BEARS: $59k → 13%GREY BEARS INC: $57k → 13%GREY BEARS INC: $48k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Community Foundation Santa Cruz County’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 79%.

Community Foundation Santa Cruz Countylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$101M · 349 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

349 repeat relationships: 232 still active in FY2024, 117 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

349
257

Total granted

$101M
$9.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+29%

Still filing today

86%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthInternationalOther
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

  • LT
    LAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.8M · revenue ×12
  • SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +126%
  • CA
    Community Action Board
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +211%

Funded once

  • LO
    LIVE OAK SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · $1.2M
  • II
    INCOMM INCENTIVES
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • PF
    PROACT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue 0% · 88% of their budget
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
3
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
4
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
5
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
6
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
7
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
8
California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education
9
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
10
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to promote sustainability in the Bay Area and beyond by engaging communities in avian science, habitat restoration, and education.

Environment
11
California Rangeland Trust

To serve the land, people and wildlife by conserving california's working rangelands.

Food & Nutrition
12
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bruce W Woolpert Algebra Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

570 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 570 of the 687 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
164
Early backer (in before they grew)
558/570
Grantees still filing
424/570
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF MONTEREY: $4,419,900 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF MONTER…SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $2,808,549 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTYCommunity Bridges: $2,052,627 · OtherCommunity Action Board: $2,884,301 · OtherCommunity Action Board+89 more: $30,884,325 · Other+89 morePajaro Valley Healthcare District Project: $8,063,667 · HealthPajaro Valley H…SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $2,964,603 · HealthSANTA CRUZ COMM…DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $1,395,150 · HealthDIENTES COMMUNI…+14 more: $3,124,917 · Health+14 moreUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $2,342,599 · EducationUC SANTA CRUZ …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,733,050 · EducationTHE BOARD OF T…Cabrillo College Foundation: $1,626,178 · EducationCabrillo Colle…William Marsh Rice University: $1,156,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh …TAHOE EXPEDITION ACADEMY INC: $1,092,900 · EducationTAHOE EXPEDITI…FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $630,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $555,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA FARMLINK: $500,000 · EducationFriends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries Inc: $498,739 · Education+15 more: $4,160,821 · Education+15 moreAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $6,662,791 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLIN…Silicon Valley Community Foundation: $2,086,500 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley…TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,536,000 · PhilanthropyTAHOE TRUCKEE …Elkhorn Slough Foundation: $1,284,082 · PhilanthropyElkhorn Slough…VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $825,817 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARI…INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $514,205 · Philanthropy+5 more: $1,071,378 · Philanthropy+5 moreLAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $4,755,378 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST…Amah Mutsun Land Trust: $2,403,750 · EnvironmentAmah Mutsu…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $779,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST …ONeill Sea Odyssey: $401,935 · Environment+13 more: $2,595,572 · Environment+13 moreENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2,801,478 · Human ServicesPAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $676,478 · Human ServicesGREY BEARS: $511,195 · Human ServicesCASA DE LA CULTURA CENTER: $391,955 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $370,000 · Human ServicesVENTURES: $369,850 · Human ServicesMONARCH SERVICES-SERVICIOS MONARCA: $337,896 · Human ServicesFAMILIES IN TRANSITION INC: $302,000 · Human Services+13 more: $2,193,727 · Human ServicesTHE 418 PROJECT: $1,234,059 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY AT THE MCPHERSON CENTER: $933,661 · Arts & CultureSENDEROS: $816,410 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $809,475 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPEARE PLAY ON SANTA CRUZ SHAKESPEARE: $782,619 · Arts & CultureSANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $494,500 · Arts & CultureSANTA CRUZ COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $436,922 · Arts & CulturePajaro Valley Historical Association: $306,354 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $1,431,647 · Arts & Culture
Other$43,049,702Health$15,548,337Education$14,295,287Philanthropy$13,980,773Environment$10,936,135Human Services$7,954,579Arts & Culture$7,245,647

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPajaro Valley Healthcare District Project: $8,063,667 over 2y, 40% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $6,662,791 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $4,755,378 over 8y, 17% of budgetSANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $2,964,603 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetCommunity Action Board: $2,884,301 over 8y, 11% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $2,808,549 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2,801,478 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetAmah Mutsun Land Trust: $2,403,750 over 5y, 34% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $2,342,599 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $2,086,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Bridges: $2,052,627 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,733,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation: $1,626,178 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,536,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetDIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $1,395,150 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetElkhorn Slough Foundation: $1,284,082 over 8y, 12% of budgetTHE 418 PROJECT: $1,234,059 over 3y, 56% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $1,156,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTAHOE EXPEDITION ACADEMY INC: $1,092,900 over 4y, 23% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $1,047,032 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FARMWORKER FAMILIES: $1,016,840 over 5y, 67% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTERS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $1,014,660 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetHOUSING MATTERS: $986,370 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY AT THE MCPHERSON CENTER: $933,661 over 8y, 13% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $825,817 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSENDEROS: $816,410 over 7y, 83% of budgetARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $809,475 over 8y, 13% of budgetSHAKESPEARE PLAY ON SANTA CRUZ SHAKESPEARE: $782,619 over 8y, 16% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $779,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetDIGITAL NEST INC: $730,713 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetPAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC: $697,325 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetPajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes Inc: $680,982 over 8y, 12% of budgetPAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $676,478 over 8y, 13% of budgetSALUD PARA LA GENTE: $671,850 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County: $667,447 over 8y, 10% of budgetFOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $630,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $555,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center: $549,086 over 8y, 11% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $514,205 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGREY BEARS: $511,195 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA FARMLINK: $500,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetPROACT FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetFriends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries Inc: $498,739 over 8y, 42% of budgetSANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $494,500 over 8y, 10% of budgetASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $475,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRANK THE VOTE INC: $450,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetSANTA CRUZ COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $436,922 over 7y, 24% of budgetDOMINICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $427,000 over 8y, 3.8% 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.

  • Who funds Pajaro Valley Healthcare District Project ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds Community Action Board ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Amah Mutsun Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Community Bridges ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE ↗
  • Who funds Elkhorn Slough Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE 418 PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE EXPEDITION ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR FARMWORKER FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTERS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING MATTERS ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY AT THE MCPHERSON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds SENDEROS ↗
  • Who funds ARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SHAKESPEARE PLAY ON SANTA CRUZ SHAKESPEARE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds DIGITAL NEST INC ↗
  • Who funds PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes Inc ↗
  • Who funds PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SALUD PARA LA GENTE ↗

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 Fo…Volunteer Centers of …Pajaro Valley Communi…The David and Lucile …Sunlight GivingCaroline's Nonprofit …Community Foundation …Nancy Buck Ransom Fou…Peggy and Jack Baskin…Arts Council Santa Cr…The J Miles and Rosan…Sutter Bay Hospitals
Monterey Peninsula FoundationCA166.9× affinity99 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Sunlight Giving · Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop · Community Foundation for San Benito County · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation · Arts Council Santa Cruz County · The J Miles and Rosanne Reiter Family Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals

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 Community Foundation Santa Cruz County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation Santa Cruz County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
71report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 687 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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