How much did MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

educationchildrenyouthhealthsanta cruzhealthyeducational

2025

youtheducationhealthchildrensanta cruzcarehealthy

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 201 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $25k
$10k–50k91 grants · $2.3M
$50k–250k94 grants · $10M
$250k+12 grants · $5.0M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$51M

Total assets

Largest grants

FIRST TEE - MONTEREY COUNTY$703,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY$702,004
HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION$600,000
MONTEREY PENINSULA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$450,000
DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC$450,000
FRIENDS OF THE SANTA CRUZ PUBLIC LIBRARIES$400,000
FIRST 5 MONTEREY COUNTY$375,000
COMMUNITY BRIDGES$300,000
HOUSING MATTERS$300,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MONTEREY COUNTY$265,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY$250,250
WATSONVILLE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$250,000
ACTION COUNCIL OF MONTEREY COUNTY INC$247,500
RANCHO CIELO INC$240,800
YOUTH ALLIANCE$237,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$94M · 150 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

150 repeat relationships — 149 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

150

Total granted

$94M

$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%

+44%

Still filing today

92%

85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY DBA GONZALES COMMUNITY CENTER CAPI
2× · 2023–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +131%
HM
HOUSING MATTERS
2× · 2023–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +257%
FC
FUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +61%

Funded once

NM
NATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $450k · revenue +9%
CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTYgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue +121%
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INTERIM INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +56%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

California Coastkeeper

California Coastkeeper Alliance coordinates, supports & enhances the work of the local California Waterkeeper programs to provide a statewide voice for safeguarding California's waters, and its world renowned coast & ocean, for the benefit…

Environment

Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks

Friends of santa cruz state parks is a vital partner to california state parks, creatively working to ensure parks and beaches throughout santa cruz county and coastal san mateo county are thriving and available to all.

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Santa Cruz Community Farmers Market

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.

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Just Communities Central Coast

Just Communities Central Coast advances justice by building leadership, fostering change, and dismantling all forms of prejudice, discrimination and oppression.

Civil Rights

Central Coast Alliance United for a

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.

Community Improvement

Marin Humane Society

Improving the lives of animals and people through advocacy, education, and support.

Animals

Ecology Action of Santa Cruz

Empower individuals, businesses, and communities to take actions today that achieve environmental and economic sustainability.

Environment

Children's Council of San Francisco

Since 1974, Children's Council has been at the heart of early care and education in San Francisco.

Human Services

Community Foundation of Mendocino County

Inspire philanthropy and steward assets to foster vibrant, inclusive and healthy communities throughout mendocino county.

Philanthropy

Coastwalk

To ensure the right of the public to access and respectfully enjoy the California Coast. To work for the completion of the California Coastal Trail and to educate the public about the coast and ocean resources.

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Casa of San Mateo County

The mission of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of San Mateo County is to ensure that all children under the protection of the court have a consistent, caring adult who speaks on their behalf and helps them reach their full…

Crime & Legal

Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Santa Cruz and the most unlike its peers is The Tech Interactive. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/258

the rest of the field

11%

315/2,951

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.

05the grantee network

237 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

102

Early backer (in before they grew)

236/237

Grantees still filing

195/237

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$80,222,893Health$4,428,850Philanthropy$3,973,604Human Services$3,923,550Education$3,832,200Youth Development$2,692,600Recreation & Sports$2,119,644

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.

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.

Community Foundation Santa CruzCA148.8× affinity81 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Santa Cruz · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Community Hospital of the Monterey · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust · Community Foundation For · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Barnet Segal Charitable Trust · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · Sunlight Giving · East Bay Community 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 organisation MONTEREY PENINSULA 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 320445753 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 55% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Monterey Peninsula Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Monterey Peninsula Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

237 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Monterey Peninsula Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

237 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Monterey Peninsula Foundation?

More from the funding graph