· Private foundation
Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $86k
Anchored by a single position: about 97% of reported assets are held in Hilltop Securities.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $86,000 |
| SALINAS SOCCER FEMENIL | $10,000 |
| AVILA VICTORY BOXING INC | $7,500 |
| MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| KING CITY BOXING CLUB | $6,000 |
| CHISPA | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| STAGE HANDS | $5,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF KING C | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| OUR NEIGHBORHOOD PET PROJECT | $3,000 |
| DIA DE LOS MUERTOS PARADE | $2,500 |
| RANCHO CIELO YOUTH CAMPUS | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $18k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMONTEREY COUNTY RURAL AG MUSEUM5× · 2017–2023 · $55k
- AVAVILA Victory Boxing Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $40k
- KCKING CITY BOXING CLUB5× · 2019–2025 · $27k
Funded once
- SVSalinas Valley Fair Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +75%
- MMMEE MEMORIAL SERVICE LEAGUEone grant, 2018 · $20k
- CFCAMPAIGN FOR MISSION SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2017 · $13k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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 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…
Drone, Aviation, and Robotics Technology (DART) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) to support quality job growth and community vitality. DART's mission is to…
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…
We provide grants to charities for activities such as youth sports, youth programs and youth education for the residents of Monterey County, California.
The mission of Santa Maria Fairpark Foundation, Inc., is to preserve and enrich the heritage of the 37th District of Agriculture Association - Santa Maria Fairpark - and showcase agricultural industries to the community. We offer support…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds AVILA Victory Boxing Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Salinas Valley Fair Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT SYSTEMS & PLANNING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Our Neighborhood Pet Project ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MO COUNTY FREE LIBRARIES ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KING CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST NIGHT MONTEREY ↗
- Who funds SUN STREET CENTERS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rita & Luis Echenique Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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