· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT | $7,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MONTEREY BAY | $7,000 |
| NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIO | $6,000 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| HOUSING MATTERS | $6,000 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| MULTIPLIER | $6,000 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| BARRIOS UNIDOS | $5,000 |
| SANTA CRUZ LOCAL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michael & Alice Chetkovich Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael & Alice Chetkovich Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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