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Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$188k
Granted FY2022
21
Grants FY2022
21
Organizations funded FY2022
14%
First-time grantees FY2022
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97% of Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For Monterey County, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $188k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

14
’17
14
’18
15
’19
13
’20
11
’21
15
’22
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2022
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2022
$22,500
Organizations funded a year
19 to 24
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 14% of the organizations Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthArts & 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
FY202221$188k14%
FY202119$120k5%
FY202023$138k9%
FY201924$118k17%
FY201824$93k13%
FY201724$93kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$4.0MEnvironment$330kArts & Culture$134kHealth$70kHuman Services$60kEducation$41kAnimals$24kScience & Tech$24kOther$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 Land Trust$83,00060%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$82,00060%
Ocean Conservancy$82,00060%
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc$61,00060%
The Salvation Army$60,0006n/a
Monterey County Symphony Assoc Inc$45,73061%
Save Our Shores$25,00061%
Youth Music Monterey$22,50063%
University Corporation at Monterey Bay$21,00050%
Food Bank for Monterey County$15,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($444k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBig Sur Land Trust: $83,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $82,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $82,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc: $61,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMonterey County Symphony Assoc Inc: $45,730 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSave Our Shores: $25,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetYouth Music Monterey: $22,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetUniversity Corporation at Monterey Bay: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for Monterey County: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarmel Bach Festival Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmuin Ballet: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMontage Health Foundation: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMontage Health: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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 19.

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 FoundationCA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Barnet Segal Charitable Trust · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Frank and Judith Marshall Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation

How much does Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation give?
Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $188,450 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (84%), Environment (7%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Big Sur Land Trust ($83k), Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation ($82k), Ocean Conservancy ($82k).
Does Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Ibm International Foundation, Barnet Segal Charitable Trust.
Where is Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation based?
Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation 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 40 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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