California · Private foundation
Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $150k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
57% of Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Inland Empire Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $86,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $64k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $84k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $101k | 58% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $29k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $46k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $39k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $77k | 70% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVILA Victory Boxing Inc | $39,900 | 4 | 16% |
| King City Boxing Club | $27,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Monterey County Dance Foundation | $24,500 | 3 | 12% |
| Salinas Valley Fair Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Salinas Soccer Femenil | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Community Housing Improvement Systems & Planning Association | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
| King City in Bloom | $13,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Our Neighborhood Pet Project | $11,000 | 3 | 7% |
| The Stagehands | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Soledad Unified School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVILA Victory Boxing Inc | $39,900 | 4 | 16% |
| King City Boxing Club | $27,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Monterey County Dance Foundation | $24,500 | 3 | 12% |
| Salinas Valley Fair Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Salinas Soccer Femenil | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Community Housing Improvement Systems & Planning Association | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
| King City in Bloom | $13,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Our Neighborhood Pet Project | $11,000 | 3 | 7% |
| The Stagehands | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Soledad Unified School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foundation for Mo County Free Libraries | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Hospice Giving Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| King City Rotary Club Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 43% |
| Kinship Center | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Night Monterey | $7,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Sun Street Centers | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Monterey County | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Rancho Cielo Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($281k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation with peer funders
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable 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.
About Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation
- How much does Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation give?
- Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $150,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (62%), Education (8%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: AVILA Victory Boxing Inc ($40k), King City Boxing Club ($27k), Monterey County Dance Foundation ($25k).
- Does Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation based?
- Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
Play a game based on Rita & Luis Echenique’s filings →