· Private foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k11 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $149k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Land Watch | $22,500 |
| Big Sur Land Trust | $20,000 |
| Salvation Army | $18,000 |
| Food Bank of Monterey County | $15,000 |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium | $15,000 |
| Ocean Conservancy | $14,000 |
| Youth Music Monterey | $12,500 |
| United Help Ukraine | $12,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Mar Monte | $10,000 |
| Friends of Monterey Public Library | $10,000 |
| Monterey Symphony | $7,500 |
| Friends of Hopkins Marine Lab | $6,000 |
| Save Our Shores | $5,000 |
| SPCA of Monterey County | $5,000 |
| Monterey High School Music Dept | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your 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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BSBig Sur Land Trust6× · 2017–2022 · $83k · revenue +101%
- OCOCEAN CONSERVANCY6× · 2017–2022 · $82k · revenue +97%
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $82k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- LPLucille Packard Foundation for Chilone grant, 2020 · $3k
- LPLucille Packard Children's Hospitalone grant, 2021 · $2k
The Ocean Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · 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 monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
To improve the economic health and quality of life in the monterey bay region.
To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.
To ensure sustainable fisheries, resilient communities and a healthy ocean for years to come.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
To inspire and facilitate film and media production throughout monterey county, creating positive economic impact.
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
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…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Monterey County and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 40 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
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Big Sur Land Trust ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR SHORES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MUSIC MONTEREY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Carmel Bach Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County ↗
- Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds Smuin Ballet ↗
- Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
- Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
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 · 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
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 Dave and Judi Zaches Charitable Foundation 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.
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.