· Private foundation
Sally Hughes Church Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GONZALES COMMUNITY CENTER | $100,000 |
| SALINAS REGIONAL SPORTS AUTHORITY | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA INC | $100,000 |
| HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HARMONY AT HOME | $50,000 |
| ARIEL THEATRICAL | $40,000 |
| BOB HOOVER ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| PALMA SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SALINAS GIRLS FASTPITCH INC | $25,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $10,000 |
| THE AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INTERNATIONAL AIRSHOW | $10,000 |
| LIVE FOR ROSS FUND AT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $600k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Sally Hughes Church Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 87%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $745k · revenue +63%
- SRSALINAS REGIONAL SPORTS AUTHORITY3× · 2018–2025 · $350k · revenue ×13 · 33% of their budget
- SSSUN STREET CENTERS3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- HCHARTNELL COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $50k
- SFSVH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k
- CBCHRISTIAN BROTHERS INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
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.
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 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…
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.
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 foster local, state, national or international sports competition with a particular emphasis on youth soccer.
The vision of the monterey county fair heritage foundation is to ensure the future of the monterey county fair and event center as a vibrant and diverse community venue.
To provide an environment where curiosity and creativity flourish, while both children and adults learn together through experience.
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…
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 51 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 HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINAS REGIONAL SPORTS AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds SUN STREET CENTERS ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY AT HOME ↗
- Who funds ARIEL THEATRICAL INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL KIDS HOME CARE ↗
- Who funds BOB HOOVER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SALINAS VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY AIRSHOW ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County ↗
- Who funds SALINAS GIRLS FASTPITCH INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PALMA SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC RECREATION UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Monterey Jazz Festival ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL NEST INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sally Hughes Church Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sally Hughes Church Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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