· Private foundation
Michael & Alice Chetkovich 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.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CABRILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY | $7,000 |
| HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT | $7,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MONTEREY BAY | $7,000 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIO | $6,000 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| MULTIPLIER | $6,000 |
| HOUSING MATTERS | $6,000 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| SANTA CRUZ LOCAL | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR FARMWORKER FAMILIES | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- USUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +55%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY MONTEREY BAY8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +40%
- HOHOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY7× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -16%
- ECESOPHAGEAL CANCER ACTION NETWORK INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -23%
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.
To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.
The primary and specific purpose for which the said corporation is formed is to empower individuals, businesses and communities to take actions today that achieve environmental and economic sustainability. The activities of the corporation…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) connects people, ideas and resources to ensure equity and opportunity for all.
CAUSE's mission is to build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
At Just Communities we work to ensure that Central Coast schools, organizations, and communities are places of opportunity, not places of limitation. We advance justice by engaging our community in leadership development, dialogue, action…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Santa Cruz County and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
19 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. 19 of the 30 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 UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MONTEREY BAY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HOUSING MATTERS ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Santa Cruz SPCA and Humane Society ↗
- Who funds ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FARMWORKER FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds WATSONVILLE WETLANDS WATCH ↗
- Who funds Community Action Board ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREY BEARS ↗
- Who funds Santa Cruz Local Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ESOPHAGEAL CANCER ACTION NETWORK 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: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The J Miles and Rosanne Reiter Family Foundation · Sunlight Giving · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Sharanam Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Dignity Health · American Gift Fund
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 Michael & Alice Chetkovich 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.