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Santa Cruz Community Credit Union

A cooperative, organized for the purpose of promoting thrift and savings among its members, creating a source of credit for them at rates of interest set by the board of directors, and providing an opportunity for them to use and control their own money on a democratic basis in order to improve their economic and social conditions.

$63k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$138kCommunity Improvement$69kFood & Nutrition$38kCivil Rights$29kHousing & Shelter$16kEmployment$15kPublic Benefit$10kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $20,167 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $62,884 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,717 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$186M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES$15,000
PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES$5,167
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 7%SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ & SAN BENITO COUNTIES: $25k → 13%SENIOR COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ & SAN BENITO COUNTIES: $20k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $6k → 13%SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES: $15k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $5k → 13%SENIOR COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ & SAN BENITO COUNTIES: $10k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $5k → 13%SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ & SAN BENITO COUNTIES: $10k → 13%SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ & SAN BENITO COUNTIES: $10k → 13%GREY BEARS: $8k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 20% of Santa Cruz Community Credit Union’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, 97% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Santa Cruz Community Credit Unionlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$195k · 7 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$195k
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+28%

Still filing today

86%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentFood & NutritionReligionCivil RightsOther

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

  • SC
    SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES
    6× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +61%
  • TS
    The Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center
    3× · 2021–2023 · $29k · revenue +481%
  • PV
    Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes Inc
    2× · 2021–2023 · $22k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • V
    VENTURESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $57k · revenue ×50 · 81% of their budget
  • HG
    HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue +28%
  • PA
    POLISH AMERICAN FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Santa Cruz Community Farmers Market

To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.

2
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

3
Santa Cruz Council on Aging Inc

To improve the quality of life for the elderly community and the Seniors we serve through transportation, nutrition, and referral for social and health services in Santa Cruz County.

Human Services
4
South County Community Services fka St Josephs Family Center

To alleviate hunger and homelessness in south santa clara county by providing food, housing and employment related services, and advocating for system changes to improve the quality of life for the most vulnerable people in the communities…

Food & Nutrition
5
Ecology Action of Santa Cruz

The primary and specific purpose for which the said corporation is formed is to empower individuals, businesses and communities to take actions today that achieve environmental and economic sustainability. The activities of the corporation…

Environment
6
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy

CAUSE's mission is to build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.

Community Improvement
7
Just Communities Central Coast

At Just Communities we work to ensure that Central Coast schools, organizations, and communities are places of opportunity, not places of limitation. We advance justice by engaging our community in leadership development, dialogue, action…

Civil Rights
8
Fish of South Valley San Jose

FISH of South Valley San Jose provides emergency food assistance to those who are in need. Our dedicated team of volunteers serve our clients with dignity and respect as we help to combat food insecurity in our community.

Food & Nutrition
9
The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley

The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.

Housing & Shelter
10
Senior Citizens Legal Services

Legal service for seniors.

Crime & Legal
11
Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau

To work for the solutions of the problems of the farm and rural community by use of organized action. to represent, protect, and advance the social, economic and educational interests of the farmers of santa cruz county and the pajaro…

12
Sunnyvale Community Services

The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County and the most unlike its peers is Think Local First. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES — $90,000 · Human ServicesSENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIESVENTURES — $56,584 · Human ServicesVENTURESHOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT — $30,860 · Human ServicesHOMELESS GARDEN PROJECTPAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES — $15,942 · Human ServicesPAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICESGREY BEARS — $7,643 · Human ServicesThe Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center — $28,577 · OtherThe Santa Cruz Lesbian an…Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes Inc — $21,723 · OtherPajaro Valley Loaves and …VOLUNTEER CENTERS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $11,920 · OtherVOLUNTEER CENTERS OF SANT…POLISH AMERICAN FEDERAL CREDIT UNION — $10,000 · OtherPOLISH AMERICAN FEDERAL C…Community Action Board — $15,195 · EmploymentTHINK LOCAL FIRST — $12,000 · Community ImprovementSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $9,132 · Food & NutritionVALLEY CHURCHES UNITED — $5,200 · ReligionCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County — $5,150 · Civil RightsARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $5,100 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$201,029Other$72,220Employment$15,195Community Improvement$12,000Food & Nutrition$9,132Religion$5,200Civil Rights$5,150Arts & Culture$5,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES — $90,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetVENTURES — $56,584 over 1y, 81% of budgetHOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT — $30,860 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center — $28,577 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes Inc — $21,723 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES — $15,942 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Action Board — $15,195 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHINK LOCAL FIRST — $12,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTERS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $11,920 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $9,132 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREY BEARS — $7,643 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY CHURCHES UNITED — $5,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County — $5,150 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $5,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation Santa Cruz CountyCA30.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · East Bay Community Foundation · Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust · The Nicholson Family Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Newman's Own Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard 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 Santa Cruz Community Credit Union 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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