California · Public charity
Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties
Seniors council serves as the santa cruz and san benito counties area agency on aging as such. It receives and administers federal and state grants for senior programs funds. From these grants, awards are passed through to sub-recipient organizations which provide direct services. The organization also operates the foster…
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $216,018
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,534,656
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties 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; $14k 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 | 8 | $2.9M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $3.6M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $3.1M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $2.5M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $2.8M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $2.0M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $1.9M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Bridges | $9,380,864 | 8 | 8% |
| Senior Network Services Inc | $4,151,754 | 8 | 80% |
| Advocacy Inc | $1,468,781 | 8 | 49% |
| Senior Citizens Legal Services | $1,025,537 | 8 | 39% |
| Grey Bears | $264,089 | 4 | 1% |
| Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired | $14,072 | 2 | 0% |
| City of Watsonville | $13,831 | 1 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $6,600 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.
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 · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties
- How much does Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties give?
- Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties reported 8 grants totaling $2,926,343 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (46%), Human Services (41%), Health (7%).
- Who are Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Community Bridges ($9.4M), Senior Network Services Inc ($4.2M), Advocacy Inc ($1.5M).
- Does Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Santa Cruz County, Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties based?
- Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties is based in CA.
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