California · Public charity
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. As a…
- $46k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $10k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $176M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Santa Cruz Community Credit Union funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $19k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $40k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $89k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $58k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $16k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties | $90,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Ventures | $56,584 | 1 | 81% |
| Homeless Garden Project | $30,860 | 1 | 2% |
| The Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center | $28,577 | 3 | 2% |
| Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes Inc | $21,723 | 2 | 1% |
| Community Action Board | $20,195 | 3 | 0% |
| Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County | $16,920 | 3 | 0% |
| Pajaro Valley Shelter Services | $15,942 | 3 | 0% |
| Think Local First | $12,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Polish American Federal Credit Union | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties | $90,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Ventures | $56,584 | 1 | 81% |
| Homeless Garden Project | $30,860 | 1 | 2% |
| The Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center | $28,577 | 3 | 2% |
| Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes Inc | $21,723 | 2 | 1% |
| Community Action Board | $20,195 | 3 | 0% |
| Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County | $16,920 | 3 | 0% |
| Pajaro Valley Shelter Services | $15,942 | 3 | 0% |
| Think Local First | $12,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Polish American Federal Credit Union | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County | $9,132 | 1 | 0% |
| Grey Bears | $7,643 | 1 | 0% |
| Valley Churches United | $5,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County | $5,150 | 1 | 0% |
| Arts Council Santa Cruz County | $5,100 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Santa Cruz Community Credit Union supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Santa Cruz Community Credit Union
- How much does Santa Cruz Community Credit Union give?
- Santa Cruz Community Credit Union reported 2 itemized grants totaling $10,000, out of $45,855 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Santa Cruz Community Credit Union fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (42%), Community Improvement (21%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Santa Cruz Community Credit Union's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties ($90k), Ventures ($57k), Homeless Garden Project ($31k).
- Does Santa Cruz Community Credit Union fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Santa Cruz Community Credit Union?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Santa Cruz County, Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
- Where is Santa Cruz Community Credit Union based?
- Santa Cruz Community Credit Union is based in CA.
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