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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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$9.5MHuman Services$8.5MHealth$1.5MCrime & Legal$1.0MPublic Benefit$14kEducation$7k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $375k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.5M
$216,018
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY BRIDGES$1,534,656
SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES$584,064
JOVENES DE ANTANO$381,234
ADVOCACY INC$216,018
SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICE$108,509
VOLUNTEER CENTER$50,000
GREY BEARS$32,462
FAMILY SERVICES AGENCY$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES: $610k → 13%SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES: $584k → 13%SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES: $553k → 13%SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES: $507k → 13%SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES: $502k → 13%SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES: $490k → 13%SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES: $466k → 13%SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES: $440k → 13%GREY BEARS: $92k → 13%GREY BEARS: $83k → 13%GREY BEARS: $57k → 13%GREY BEARS: $32k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 10 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$20M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+24%

Still filing today

60%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CB
    Community Bridges
    8× · 2018–2025 · $9.4M · revenue +54%
  • SN
    SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +252% · 80% of their budget
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +454% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • CF
    COMM FOOD BANK OF SAN BENITO
    one grant, 2023 · $60k
  • FM
    FARMERS MARKET NUTRITION
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • CO
    CITY OF WATSONVILLE
    one grant, 2024 · $14k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 14 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Bridges: $9,380,864 · Food & NutritionCommunity BridgesJOVENES DE ANTANO: $3,731,894 · OtherJOVENES DE ANTANOADVOCACY INC: $1,468,781 · OtherADVOCACY INCVOLUNTEER CENTER: $216,229 · Other+6 more: $227,031 · OtherSENIOR NETWORK SERVICES INC: $4,151,754 · Human ServicesSENIOR NETWORK SERVICES …GREY BEARS: $264,089 · Human ServicesGREY BEARSSENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES: $1,025,537 · Crime & LegalVista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $14,072 · Health
Food & Nutrition$9,380,864Other$5,643,935Human Services$4,415,843Crime & Legal$1,025,537Health$14,072

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Bridges: $9,380,864 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetSENIOR NETWORK SERVICES INC: $4,151,754 over 8y, 80% of budgetADVOCACY INC: $1,468,781 over 8y, 49% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES: $1,025,537 over 8y, 39% of budgetGREY BEARS: $264,089 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetVista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $14,072 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $6,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Community Bridges ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCACY INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds GREY BEARS ↗
  • Who funds Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Monterey Peninsula Fo…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation Santa Cruz CountyCA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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