· Public charity
Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga
We provide grants to charities for activities such as youth sports, youth programs and youth education for the residents of Monterey County, California.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $140,706 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $171,331 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,625 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Palma High School | $101,725 |
| Hartnell College | $18,831 |
| El Camino Real Futbol League | $7,350 |
| York School | $6,600 |
| Salinas Police Activities Lea | $6,200 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- CBCHRISTIAN BROTHERS INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA4× · 2022–2025 · $226k
- TDTHE DIOCESE OF MONTEREY PARISH AND SCHOOL OPERATING CORPORATION5× · 2019–2024 · $66k
- SGSALINAS GIRLS FASTPITCH INC2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR SALINAS UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $19k
- GIGirls Incorporated of the Central Coastgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +44%
- MCMonterey Collegiate Foundation co Katy Reyesone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +20%
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.
Fast pitch softball league open to girls within the community between the ages of 4.5 and 16 years. For the promotion and advancement of the sport of softabll within
Youth sports organization designed to give young girls the opportunity to play softball get trained in order to improve their skills and encourage the development of the qualities of sportsmanship and fair play
Youth sports
Monterey County Soccer Club is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the positive development of our youth through their participation in a safe health and affordable soccer program that is fun and rewarding for who participate
Girls youth softball - ages 4 to 14 clinics, practices & games - spring, summer & fall
Softball league
Teach teamwork and leadership
Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.
Girls ages 4-16 are served through a variety of instructional clinics and age specific leagues. All activites are instructional and are of recreational nature.
Ramona Girls Softball Provides services to 150-200 young girls ages 5-16 year old. RGS provides full time softball facilities for softball actives
Youth baseball, softball and challenger
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peninsula Girls Fastpitch Associati and the most unlike its peers is Monterey Collegiate Foundation co Katy Reyes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 SALINAS GIRLS FASTPITCH INC ↗
- Who funds SALINAS POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Girls Incorporated of the Central Coast ↗
- Who funds Monterey Collegiate Foundation co Katy Reyes ↗
- Who funds EL CAMINO REAL FUTBOL LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LTG Lions ↗
- Who funds THE YORK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA GIRLS FASTPITCH ASSOCIATI ↗
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 Collegiate Foundation co Katy Reyes · Sally Hughes Church Foundation · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga 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.
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