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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.

$171k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$141k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$7,350
Largest grant, FY2025
$101,725
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$398k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$141k40%
FY20246$111k33%
FY20238$151k63%
FY20223$58k67%
FY20201$8k0%
FY20191$5k100%
FY20171$8kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$332kRecreation & Sports$102kYouth Development$40kPhilanthropy$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Christian Brothers Institute of California$226,4704n/a
The Diocese of Monterey Parish and School Operating Corporation$65,9305n/a
Salinas Girls Fastpitch Inc$55,32022%
Salinas Police Activities League Inc$32,30037%
Hartnell College$27,5562n/a
Education Foundation for Salinas Union High School District$18,5751n/a
Alisal Booster Club$14,1652n/a
Monterey Collegiate Foundation co Katy Reyes$7,50014%
Girls Incorporated of the Central Coast$7,50011%
El Camino Real Futbol League$7,35018%
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Christian Brothers Institute of California$226,4704n/a
The Diocese of Monterey Parish and School Operating Corporation$65,9305n/a
Salinas Girls Fastpitch Inc$55,32022%
Salinas Police Activities League Inc$32,30037%
Hartnell College$27,5562n/a
Education Foundation for Salinas Union High School District$18,5751n/a
Alisal Booster Club$14,1652n/a
Monterey Collegiate Foundation co Katy Reyes$7,50014%
Girls Incorporated of the Central Coast$7,50011%
El Camino Real Futbol League$7,35018%
LTG Lions$7,00011%
The York School$6,60010%
Peninsula Girls Fastpitch Associati$5,05011%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSalinas Girls Fastpitch Inc: $55,320 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSalinas Police Activities League Inc: $32,300 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetMonterey Collegiate Foundation co Katy Reyes: $7,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGirls Incorporated of the Central Coast: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEl Camino Real Futbol League: $7,350 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetLTG Lions: $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe York School: $6,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeninsula Girls Fastpitch Associati: $5,050 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Monterey Collegiate F…Sally Hughes Church F…Pebble Beach Company …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Monterey Collegiate Foundation co Katy ReyesCA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga

How much does Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga give?
Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga reported 5 itemized grants totaling $140,706, out of $171,331 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (69%), Recreation & Sports (21%), Youth Development (8%).
Who are Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Christian Brothers Institute of California ($226k), The Diocese of Monterey Parish and School Operating Corporation ($66k), Salinas Girls Fastpitch Inc ($55k).
Does Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Collegiate Foundation co Katy Reyes, Sally Hughes Church Foundation, Pebble Beach Company Foundation.
Where is Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga based?
Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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