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Monterey Peninsula Foundation

To improve the quality of life in monterey county and surrounding areas by providing grants to nonprofit organizations that benefit the community in the areas of youth, education, health and human services, arts and culture, and community and environment.

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
201
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$703k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$11MHealth$9.7MHuman Services$7.5MYouth Development$6.7MPhilanthropy$6.5MRecreation & Sports$5.1MArts & Culture$4.3MHousing & Shelter$4.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 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
7
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
03

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 (FY17–25, $5.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARMONY AT HOME: $70k → 12%JAKE OWEN FOUNDATION: $118k → 14%HARMONY AT HOME: $50k → 12%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION MONTEREY COUNTY: $75k → 12%YWCA OF MONTEREY COUNTY: $75k → 12%POSITIVE DISCIPLINE COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $120k → 13%VENTURES: $119k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $100k → 13%MONARCH SERVICES - SERVICIOS MONARCA: $100k → 13%SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY VENTURES DBA VENTURES: $75k → 13%MONARCH SERVICES - SERVICIOS MONARCA: $75k → 13%HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION: $267k → 12%MONARCH SERVICES: $50k → 13%GATHERING FOR WOMEN - MONTEREY: $201k → 12%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $40k → 13%GATHERING FOR WOMEN - MONTEREY: $120k → 12%GATHERING FOR WOMEN - MONTEREY: $100k → 12%HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%WALNUT AVENUE FAMILY & WOMEN'S CENTER: $209k → 13%WALNUT AVENUE FAMILY & WOMEN'S CENTER: $160k → 13%ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $150k → 13%HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $150k → 13%ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $150k → 13%WALNUT AVENUE FAMILY & WOMEN'S CENTER: $150k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $70k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $70k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CC: $45k → 13%GREY BEARS: $50k → 13%CALIFORNIA GREY BEARS: $40k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $120k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS CENTRAL COAST CHAPTER: $60k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS CENTRAL COAST CHAPTER: $60k → 12%THE CARMEL FOUNDATION: $45k → 12%SUN STREET CENTERS: $295k → 12%SUN STREET CENTERS: $295k → 12%FRANCISCAN WORKERS OF JUNIPERO SERRA: $200k → 12%SUN STREET CENTERS: $160k → 12%FRANCISCAN WORKERS OF JUNIPER: $150k → 12%LOAVES FISHES & COMPUTERS INC: $138k → 12%LOAVES FISHES & COMPUTERS: $98k → 12%ALLIANCE ON AGING INC: $75k → 12%ALLIANCE ON AGING INC: $75k → 12%ALLIANCE ON AGING INC: $75k → 12%LOAVES FISHES & COMPUTERS INC: $60k → 12%SUN STREET CENTERS: $50k → 12%PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $45k → 12%PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $45k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
NY
OR
CA
CO
TN
DC
TX
FL

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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$55M · 211 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

211 repeat relationships — 180 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

211
92

Total granted

$55M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+13%

Still filing today

93%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • FC
    FUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTY
    4× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +61%
  • HC
    HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +63%
  • HM
    HOUSING MATTERS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • NM
    NATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $450k · revenue +11%
  • M
    MPUSD
    one grant, 2017 · $350k
  • CP
    CEIBA PUBLIC SCHOOLSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue +63%

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.

1
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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2
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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3
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
4
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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5
Just Communities Central Coast

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…

Civil Rights
6
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
7
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

Community hospital of the monterey peninsula is dedicated to identifying and meeting the changing healthcare needs of the people of the monterey peninsula and surrounding communities.we are committed to providing high-quality services at a…

Health
8
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy

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.

Community Improvement
9
Monterey County Interfaith Alliance
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10
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
11
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
12
Santa Cruz Mountains Wine Growers Association

Advancement of community interest, business conditions and the reputation of the Santa Cruz Mountain Wine Industry through festivals and other activities

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Monterey County and the most unlike its peers is Jake Owen Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr13%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr13%25%55yr+

The field is 23% 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 — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%3/320
the rest of the field
12%
386/3,132

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.

04the grantee network

296 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. 296 of the 329 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
94
Early backer (in before they grew)
292/296
Grantees still filing
204/296
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOUSING MATTERS — $1,767,566 · OtherHOUSING MATTERSMONTEREY COUNTY CHILDREN & FAMILIES COMMISSION — $1,625,000 · OtherMONTEREY COUNTY CHILDREN & FAMILIES COMMISS…YOUTH ALLIANCE — $1,225,000 · Other+99 more — $19,715,924 · Other+99 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $3,740,804 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOU…UNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY — $752,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…Action Council of Monterey County Inc — $742,500 · PhilanthropyAction Counci…United Way of Santa Cruz County — $735,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $617,400 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOU…COALITION OF HOMELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS — $326,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $625,000 · Philanthropy+6 moreHARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $1,800,000 · EducationHARTNELL COLL…UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY — $1,180,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY CO…Cabrillo College Foundation — $752,000 · EducationCabrillo Coll…Monterey Peninsula College Foundation — $610,000 · EducationMonterey Peni…COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SAN BENITO COUNTY — $500,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOO…Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries Inc — $400,000 · EducationFriends of th…FOUNDATION FOR MO COUNTY FREE LIBRARIES — $345,000 · EducationCEIBA PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $300,000 · Education+11 more — $1,355,000 · Education+11 moreSUN STREET CENTERS — $800,000 · Human ServicesSUN STREET C…Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra — $750,250 · Human ServicesFranciscan W…GATHERING FOR WOMEN - MONTEREY — $671,000 · Human ServicesGATHERING FO…WALNUT AVENUE FAMILY & WOMENS CENTER — $518,500 · Human ServicesWALNUT AVENU…COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH — $507,250 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY PA…ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $450,000 · Human ServicesENCOMPASS CO…HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION — $367,250 · Human ServicesVENTURES — $362,500 · Human ServicesLOAVES FISHES & COMPUTERS INC — $335,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $240,000 · Human Services+16 more — $2,107,750 · Human Services+16 moreSANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $875,000 · HealthSANTA CRUZ …DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE — $710,000 · HealthDIENTES COM…Pajaro Valley Healthcare District Project — $650,000 · HealthPajaro Vall…DOMINICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $550,000 · HealthDOMINICAN H…NATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $450,000 · HealthNATIVIDAD M…SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $450,000 · HealthSUTTER BAY …COASTAL KIDS HOME CARE — $327,500 · HealthCENTRAL COAST VNA & HOSPICE INC — $285,000 · HealthSALINAS VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $250,000 · HealthJACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES — $250,000 · HealthTHE VILLAGE PROJECT INC — $240,000 · Health+11 more — $1,443,500 · Health+11 moreFUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTY — $2,636,320 · Recreation & SportsFUTURE CIT…SALINAS REGIONAL SPORTS AUTHORITY — $1,550,000 · Recreation & SportsSALINAS RE…PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC — $550,000 · Recreation & SportsPGA TOUR F…Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration — $250,000 · Recreation & SportsWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · Recreation & Sports+5 more — $544,000 · Recreation & Sports+5 moreBoys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County — $1,157,203 · Youth DevelopmentRANCHO CIELO INC — $931,800 · Youth DevelopmentTILLAMOOK POLICE CADET ASSOCIATION CO TERRY WRIGHT — $630,250 · Youth DevelopmentDIGITAL NEST INC — $440,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Incorporated of the Central Coast — $420,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $415,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEEN KITCHEN PROJECT — $270,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $270,000 · Youth Development
Other$24,333,490Philanthropy$7,539,204Education$7,242,000Human Services$7,109,500Health$6,481,000Recreation & Sports$5,730,320Youth Development$4,534,253

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $3,740,804 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetFUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTY — $2,636,320 over 4y, 21% of budgetHARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $1,800,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHOUSING MATTERS — $1,767,566 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetSALINAS REGIONAL SPORTS AUTHORITY — $1,550,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetYOUTH ALLIANCE — $1,225,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY — $1,180,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County — $1,157,203 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetRANCHO CIELO INC — $931,800 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetSANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $875,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSUN STREET CENTERS — $800,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY — $752,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation — $752,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetFranciscan Workers of Junipero Serra — $750,250 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetCommunity Bridges — $745,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAction Council of Monterey County Inc — $742,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetUnited Way of Santa Cruz County — $735,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetDIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE — $710,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetGATHERING FOR WOMEN - MONTEREY — $671,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetPajaro Valley Healthcare District Project — $650,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetTILLAMOOK POLICE CADET ASSOCIATION CO TERRY WRIGHT — $630,250 over 4y, 60% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $617,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMonterey Peninsula College Foundation — $610,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $600,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDOMINICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $550,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC — $550,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $536,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWALNUT AVENUE FAMILY & WOMENS CENTER — $518,500 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH — $507,250 over 3y, 29% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SAN BENITO COUNTY — $500,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetNATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $450,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $450,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $450,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIGITAL NEST INC — $440,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetGirls Incorporated of the Central Coast — $420,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $415,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetHOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION — $367,250 over 3y, 15% of budgetVENTURES — $362,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA INC — $354,250 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCENTRAL COAST YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $350,250 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMONTEREY BAY ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC — $350,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MO COUNTY FREE LIBRARIES — $345,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetLOAVES FISHES & COMPUTERS INC — $335,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetHuman-I-T — $329,924 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOASTAL KIDS HOME CARE — $327,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCOALITION OF HOMELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS — $326,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County — $310,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCEIBA PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $300,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budget
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 …Nancy Buck Ransom Fou…Pebble Beach Company …Barnet Segal Charitab…Community Hospital of…The David and Lucile …Pajaro Valley Communi…Volunteer Centers of …Community Foundation …Sunlight GivingArts Council for Mont…Dunspaugh Dalton Foun…
Community Foundation Santa Cruz CountyCA166.9× affinity99 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Barnet Segal Charitable Trust · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · Community Foundation for San Benito County · Sunlight Giving · Arts Council for Monterey County · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc

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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • National Marine Sanctuary Foundation — 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
77report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Monterey Peninsula Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Monterey Peninsula Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 329 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home