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Half Moon Bay Beautification Committee

The beautification of main street in the city of half moon bay and civic organizations of the half moon bay community.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$135kRecreation & Sports$93kArts & Culture$64kReligion$31kYouth Development$27kCommunity Improvement$15kHousing & Shelter$11kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$147k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cunha Athletic Boosters$6,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%IDES: $50k → 7%COASTSIDE CRISIS FUND: $50k → 7%THE IDES SOCIETY: $25k → 7%SENIOR COASTSIDERS: $10k → 7%COASTSIDE ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$201k · 6 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
16

Total granted

$201k
$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+78%

Still filing today

100%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TI
    THE IDES SOCIETY
    2× · 2019–2021 · $75k · revenue +11%
  • CR
    COASTAL REPERTORY THEATRE INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $64k · revenue +20%
  • HM
    HALF MOON BAY GIRLS SOFTBALL INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $22k · revenue +196% · 48% of their budget

Funded once

  • HM
    HALF MOON BAY HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS ATHLETICS CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $53k · revenue +138%
  • AG
    Abundant Grace Coastside Worker Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -35%
  • HM
    HALF MOON BAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +78%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Monterey Bay United
Recreation & Sports
2
South Bay Athletic Club
Recreation & Sports
3
Half Moon Bay Coastside Community Foundation Inc

Assistance to the local community. The support and advancement of educational, cultural and economic interests of the Half Moon Bay Coastside community.

Philanthropy
4
Coastside Childrens Programs

Coastside childrens programs (ccp) mission is to provide a safe and caring environment where children learn through experience, play, and friendships - building a foundation for success in school and life. ccp is offering preschool…

Human Services
5
Coastside Women's Club

The coastside women's club is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, whose mission is to provide college and vocational school scholarships for half moon bay high school students and to strengthen community through educational and social…

Unclassified
6
Half Moon Bay Commercial Fisheries Trust

The mission of this corporation shall be to increase opportunities for local fishing operations to participate in sustainable fishing activities along the west coast of the united states; and to develop those fishing opportunities in a…

7
Half Moon Bay History Association

We bring together all members of the community to preserve, celebrate, and share the history of the san mateo coastside.

Arts & Culture
8
Santa Cruz Island Foundation
Community Improvement
9
Little League Baseball Inc Dba Half Moon Bay Little League

For 50 years, half moon bay little league has developed life-long successful habits for the coastside youth by combining athleticism, teamwork, perseverance, and hard work. recently, youth baseball has been forced to compete with several…

10
Central Coast Section of the California Interscholastic Federation

It is the Section's purpose to serve student-athletes and spectators, to encourage students to reach their potential within the context of available resources, organizational limits and equity of competition.

Recreation & Sports
11
Mavericks Community Foundation

Mavericks community foundation engages the community, develops partnerships and inspires giving to make a positive, lasting impact on the san mateo county coast.

Education
12
North Beach Citizens

North Beach Citizens meets the needs of our unhoused and extremely low-income neighbors with trust, integrity, and compassion. Through personalized, innovative programs, we help individuals facing poverty reclaim dignity, stability, and a…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary Club of Hmb Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cabrillo Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr12%30%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr13%19%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr12%12%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
10%
386/3,863

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.

04the grantee network

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE IDES SOCIETY — $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE IDES SOCIETYAbundant Grace Coastside Worker Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesAbundant Grace Coastside Worker IncSENIOR COASTSIDERS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR COASTSIDERS INCCOASTSIDE ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTER — $5,310 · Human ServicesCOASTAL REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $63,620 · OtherCOASTAL REPERTORY THEATRE INCHALF MOON BAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $15,000 · OtherHALF MOON BAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCESAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA — $9,930 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSACOMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $9,123 · OtherCOMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHCABRILLO EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,850 · OtherCABRILLO EDUCATION FOUNDATIONCOASTSIDE LUTHERAN CHURCH — $7,965 · OtherKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS — $7,965 · OtherMARINERS COMMUNITY CHURCH — $5,814 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $5,753 · OtherHALF MOON BAY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $5,310 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS 2121 HALF MOON BAY — $7,050 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF HMB FOUNDATION — $6,500 · OtherHALF MOON BAY HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS ATHLETICS CORP — $53,100 · Recreation & SportsHALF MOON BAY HIGH S…HALF MOON BAY GIRLS SOFTBALL INC — $22,285 · Recreation & SportsHALF MOON BAY GIRLS …CUNHA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS — $18,000 · EducationGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $11,310 · Youth DevelopmentBIG WAVE GROUP — $10,810 · Housing & ShelterCoastside Land Trust — $10,000 · Environment
Human Services$140,310Other$152,880Recreation & Sports$75,385Education$18,000Youth Development$11,310Housing & Shelter$10,810Environment$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE IDES SOCIETY — $75,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCOASTAL REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $63,620 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetHALF MOON BAY HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS ATHLETICS CORP — $53,100 over 1y, 25% of budgetAbundant Grace Coastside Worker Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHALF MOON BAY GIRLS SOFTBALL INC — $22,285 over 2y, 48% of budgetCUNHA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS — $18,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetHALF MOON BAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $15,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $11,310 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG WAVE GROUP — $10,810 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCoastside Land Trust — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSENIOR COASTSIDERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCABRILLO EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,850 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS 2121 HALF MOON BAY — $7,050 over 1y, 41% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF HMB FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 1y, 42% of budgetCOASTSIDE ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTER — $5,310 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Atkinson FoundationCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atkinson Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Touchpoint Foundation - Host · Grapevine giving foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Half Moon Bay Beautification Committee 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Half Moon Bay Beautification Committee?

    Find your warmest path to Half Moon Bay Beautification Committee through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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