· Private foundation
Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 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. FY2024 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $107k
Anchored by a single position — about 97% of reported assets are held in Hilltop Securities.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $106,500 |
| SALINAS SOCCER FEMENIL | $10,000 |
| KING CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AVILA VICTORY BOXING INC | $7,500 |
| MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| KING CITY BOXING CLUB | $6,000 |
| GONZALES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DIA DE LOS MUERTOS PARADE | $5,000 |
| CHISPA | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| KING CITY IN BLOOM | $5,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF KING C | $5,000 |
| SOMOCO CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $4,500 |
| OUR NEIGHBORHOOD PET PROJECT | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
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
- MCMONTEREY COUNTY RURAL AG MUSEUM5× · 2017–2023 · $55k
- AVAVILA Victory Boxing Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $32k
- SASAN ARDO UNION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $26k
Funded once
- MMMEE MEMORIAL SERVICE LEAGUEone grant, 2018 · $20k
- SVSalinas Valley Fair Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +75%
- CFCAMPAIGN FOR MISSION SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2017 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Monterey Peninsula Pride creates celebratory and safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ expression and allyship across the Monterey Peninsula.
To provide community programs which support law enforcement and crime prevention needs for the community of SalinasTo provide training and equipment for the Police Department of the City of Salinas, California.
Recruiting and training volunteers that implement changes in the cities of Monterey County that include the establishment and operation of Community Gardens; the planting of tees on urban street; teaching citizens how to reduce the amount…
We provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
To provide education, implement and fund projects in accordance with National and California Fire Plans, mobilize citizens and agencies to reduce losses from wildfires, exchange information and foster fire prevention and fire safety within…
It is the mission of MCFC to provide the highest level of soccer to the youth of Monterey County while maintaining good sportsmanship values with quality coaching. Our goal is help young soccer players develop not only into better soccer…
Financial support for the University of California Master Gardener program in Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties whose purpose is to support home gardeners and the public with researched based information through classes,…
SpectorDance's mission is "To Create and Present Dance that Makes a Difference!" Everything we do-whether creative, pedagogical, community-oriented, or even managerial-serves this greater purpose. This mission uniquely defines all our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monterey County Dance Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Inland Empire Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds AVILA Victory Boxing Inc ↗
- Who funds Salinas Valley Fair Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT SYSTEMS & PLANNING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KING CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MO COUNTY FREE LIBRARIES ↗
- Who funds Our Neighborhood Pet Project ↗
- Who funds SUN STREET CENTERS ↗
- Who funds FIRST NIGHT MONTEREY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
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.
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
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 Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable 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.
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.
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