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Sally Hughes Church Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY | $100,000 |
| SUN STREET CENTERS | $100,000 |
| HARMONY AT HOME | $50,000 |
| SVH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ARIEL THEATRICAL | $40,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| BOB HOOVER ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| SALINAS GIRLS FASTPITCH INC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| RANCHO CIELO YOUTH CAMPUS | $15,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INTERNATIONAL AIRSHOW | $10,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Sally Hughes Church Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- HCHARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $640k · revenue +63%
- SSSUN STREET CENTERS3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +26%
- RCRANCHO CIELO INC5× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- HCHARTNELL COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $50k
- PRPUBLIC RECREATION UNLIMITED INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +145%
- CBCHRISTIAN BROTHERS INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…
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.
To inspire and facilitate film and media production throughout monterey county, creating positive economic impact.
Fostering the passion and development of local youth through the performing arts, where talents and life skills may grow in an inspiring and nurturing environment.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
To foster local, state, national or international sports competition with a particular emphasis on youth soccer.
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The mission of the housing resource center (hrc) of monterey county is to provide a continuum of housing resources for homeless prevention and affordable housing opportunities. hrc fosters community stability, stronger communities, and…
To improve the economic health and quality of life in the monterey bay region.
To provide an environment where curiosity and creativity flourish, while both children and adults learn together through experience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Monterey County and the most unlike its peers is Monterey County Historical Society. 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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
32 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. 32 of the 48 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 HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUN STREET CENTERS ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
- Who funds SALINAS REGIONAL SPORTS AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds COASTAL KIDS HOME CARE ↗
- Who funds HARMONY AT HOME ↗
- Who funds ARIEL THEATRICAL INC ↗
- Who funds SALINAS VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOB HOOVER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY AIRSHOW ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SALINAS GIRLS FASTPITCH INC ↗
- Who funds PALMA SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC RECREATION UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Monterey Jazz Festival ↗
- Who funds NATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL NEST INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INC ↗
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 · Andrew & Phyllis D'Arrigo Charitable Foundation · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Barnet Segal Charitable Trust · Tanimura Family Foundation · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · The Haynes Charitable Foundation · Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · Don and Barbara Chapin 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 Sally Hughes Church 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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