California · Public charity
Must
A collaboration of business owners and community members dedicated to making a difference by pooling donations and gifting them to local non-profits serving people in need. MUST acts as a collective fund manager of sorts, strategically investing in social good.
- $887k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $71,192
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $472,166
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 69% of the organizations Must funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $877k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $452k | 69% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $588k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $900k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $580k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $199k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $240k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $434k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Central Coast | $794,331 | 3 | 10% |
| Affordable Housing Paso Robles | $692,591 | 4 | 57% |
| El Camino Homeless Organization | $517,837 | 4 | 37% |
| Lumina Alliance | $491,366 | 2 | 8% |
| Transitionsmental Health Association | $479,210 | 2 | 2% |
| People's Self Help Housing Corp | $262,447 | 3 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of North SLO Co Inc | $231,500 | 4 | 13% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of San Luis Obispo County Inc | $209,550 | 4 | 8% |
| Vineyard Team | $101,580 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Coast Vineyard Team | $101,500 | 2 | 12% |
Show all 25 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Must supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · The Niner Foundation Inc · Resnick Foundation · Dignity Health · Carol and Warren Sinsheimer Foundation Inc · The Dorf Foundation Inc · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Must
- How much does Must give?
- Must reported 7 grants totaling $887,072 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Must fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (35%), Youth Development (26%), Health (14%).
- Who are Must's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Clubs of the Central Coast ($794k), Affordable Housing Paso Robles ($693k), El Camino Homeless Organization ($518k).
- Does Must fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Must?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo, The Niner Foundation Inc, Resnick Foundation.
- Where is Must based?
- Must is based in CA.
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