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Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$102k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $140,706, the rows itemized in this filing. The $171,331 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,625 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $102k
$7,350
Median grant
1
States reached
$398k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Peninsula Girls Fast Pitch: $5k → 7%El Camino Real Futbol League: $7k → 12%LTG Lions: $7k → 14%Monterey Collegiate Fndn: $8k → 12%San Carlos School: $7k → 12%York School: $7k → 12%Hartnell College: $19k → 12%Alisal High School: $9k → 12%Hartnell College: $9k → 12%Alisal High School: $5k → 12%Palma High School: $102k → 12%Palma High School: $51k → 12%Palma High School: $42k → 12%Salinas Girls Fast Pitch: $34k → 12%Palma High School: $32k → 12%Salinas Girls Fast Pitch: $22k → 12%Salinas Union High School Dis: $19k → 12%Salinas Police Activities Lea: $16k → 12%Notre Dame High School: $15k → 12%Salinas Police Activities Lea: $10k → 12%Notre Dame High School: $10k → 12%Sacred Heart School: $8k → 12%Girls Inc Central Coast: $8k → 12%Sacred Heart School: $7k → 12%Notre Dame High School: $7k → 12%Sacred Heart School: $7k → 12%Salinas Police Activities Lea: $6k → 12%Notre Dame: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$422k · 6 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$422k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+41%

Still filing today

33%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CB
    CHRISTIAN BROTHERS INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $226k
  • TD
    THE DIOCESE OF MONTEREY PARISH AND SCHOOL OPERATING CORPORATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $66k
  • SG
    SALINAS GIRLS FASTPITCH INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • EF
    EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR SALINAS UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $19k
  • MC
    Monterey Collegiate Foundation co Katy Reyes
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +20%
  • GI
    Girls Incorporated of the Central Coastgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +44%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Irvine Girls Softball Association

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

Recreation & Sports
2
The San Bruno Girls Softball League

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

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3
So Cal Aces Baseball Club

Youth sports

Religion
4
Monterey County Soccer League Monterey County Soccer Club

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

Recreation & Sports
5
Santa Monica Girls Fastpitch

Girls youth softball - ages 4 to 14 clinics, practices & games - spring, summer & fall

Recreation & Sports
6
Port City Girls Softball League

Softball league

Youth Development
7
Racers Youth Fastpitch

Teach teamwork and leadership

Recreation & Sports
8
Santa Barbara Soccer Club

Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.

Recreation & Sports
9
Marin Girls Softball League

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.

Recreation & Sports
10
Ramona Girls Softball

Ramona Girls Softball Provides services to 150-200 young girls ages 5-16 year old. RGS provides full time softball facilities for softball actives

Recreation & Sports
11
Smhs Girls Soccer
Recreation & Sports
12
South Pasadena Little League

Youth baseball, softball and challenger

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peninsula Girls Fastpitch Associati; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA: $226,470 · OtherCHRISTIAN BROTHERS INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIATHE DIOCESE OF MONTEREY PARISH AND SCHOOL OPERATING CORPORATION: $65,930 · OtherTHE DIOCESE OF MONTEREY PARISH AND SCHOOL OPERATING CORPORATIONSALINAS GIRLS FASTPITCH INC: $55,320 · OtherSALINAS GIRLS FASTPITCH INCHARTNELL COLLEGE: $27,556 · OtherHARTNELL COLLEGEEDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR SALINAS UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $18,575 · OtherAlisal Booster Club: $14,165 · OtherSALINAS POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC: $32,300 · Crime & LegalEL CAMINO REAL FUTBOL LEAGUE: $7,350 · Recreation & SportsLTG Lions: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsPENINSULA GIRLS FASTPITCH ASSOCIATI: $5,050 · Recreation & SportsMonterey Collegiate Foundation co Katy Reyes: $7,500 · PhilanthropyGirls Incorporated of the Central Coast: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE YORK SCHOOL: $6,600 · Education
Other$408,016Crime & Legal$32,300Recreation & Sports$19,400Philanthropy$7,500Youth Development$7,500Education$6,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    2report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Monterey County Benevolent Foundation co Tausha Suniga 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 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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