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United Way of Monterey County

Our Mission is Connecting people, partners, and pathways to improve lives across Monterey County.

$448k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$643kCommunity Improvement$540kReligion$193kHealth$175kEmployment$160kHuman Services$87kPhilanthropy$61kEnvironment$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $373,430, the rows itemized in this filing. The $447,966 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $74,536 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOOR TO HOPE$174,827
ALISAL UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT$75,000
CENTRAL COAST ENERGY SERVICES$30,603
ACTION COUNSIL OF MONTEREY CO$30,000
HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION$28,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MONTEREY$10,000
COMMUNITY BRIDGES$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $127k → 12%KINSHIP CENTER: $15k → 12%MIDPEN HOUSING CORPORATION: $23k → 13%NORTH COUNTY MONTEREY USD: $36k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $96k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE: $128k → 12%NORTH COUNTY MONTEREY USD: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $75k → 12%MONTEREY BAY ECONOMIC PARTNER: $100k → 12%NORTH COUNTY MONTEREY USD: $19k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $43k → 12%MONTEREY BAY ECONOMIC PARTNER: $100k → 12%NORTH COUNTY MONTEREY USD: $9k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE: $65k → 12%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MONTEREY: $10k → 12%CITY OF GONZALES: $17k → 12%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MONTEREY: $10k → 12%ALISAL UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT: $400k → 12%ALISAL UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT: $75k → 12%GOODWILL CENTRAL COAST: $60k → 12%GOODWILL CENTRAL COAST: $50k → 12%GOODWILL CENTRAL COAST: $50k → 12%COMMUNITY BRIDGES: $10k → 12%CALIFORNIA AMERICAN WATER: $31k → 12%CALIFORNIA AMERICAN WATER: $25k → 12%CALIFORNIA AMERICAN WATER COM: $21k → 12%DOOR TO HOPE: $175k → 12%ACTION COUNSIL OF MONTEREY CO: $30k → 12%HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $28k → 12%LAURAS BARN CHILD CARE CENTER: $21k → 12%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY: $15k → 12%CASA OF MONTEREY COUNTY: $10k → 12%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56M · 9 repeat orgs$394k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$56M
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+95%

Still filing today

44%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
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

  • Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $340k · revenue +69%
  • MB
    MONTEREY BAY ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +16%
  • GC
    GOODWILL CENTRAL COAST
    3× · 2018–2020 · $160k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • M
    MPUSD
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • MH
    MIDPEN HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $23k · revenue +332%
  • LB
    LAURAS BARN CHILD CARE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $21k
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

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.

1
Community Action Board of Sc County Inc

To partner with the community to eliminate poverty.

Employment
2
Mid-City Community Advocacy Network

Mid-city community advocacy network works to build a safe, productive, and healthy community for the residents of city heights and greater san diego through collaboration, advocacy, and organizing.

Community Improvement
3
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
4
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
5
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
6
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.

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7
Housing Resource Center of Monterey Coun

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Community Action Marin

We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.

Human Services
9
Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County

We are a catalyst of equitable transformation, aligning partners and resources to implement values-based, data-driven, community-led solutions that help families reach their full potential. our vision - we see sonoma county transformed…

Community Improvement
10
Child Advocates of Contra Costa County

The court appointed special advocates (casa) program recruits, trains, and supports volunteer advocates to support abused and neglected children during the court process, to help every child find a permanent home and complete their…

Civil Rights
11
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
12
Community Impact Central Valley

To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Monterey County; the most unlike its peers is Seneca Family of Agencies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DETAILED SCHEDULE ATTACHED: $54,091,533 · OtherDETAILED SCHEDULE ATTACHED+14 more: $1,303,773 · OtherMONTEREY BAY ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementDOOR TO HOPE: $174,827 · HealthGOODWILL CENTRAL COAST: $160,000 · EmploymentAction Council of Monterey County Inc: $50,815 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL COAST ENERGY SERVICES INC: $30,603 · Human ServicesHARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $28,000 · Education
Other$55,395,306Community Improvement$200,000Health$174,827Employment$160,000Philanthropy$70,815Human Services$30,603Education$28,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County Inc: $339,993 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMONTEREY BAY ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP INC: $200,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetDOOR TO HOPE: $174,827 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGOODWILL CENTRAL COAST: $160,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAction Council of Monterey County Inc: $50,815 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIDPEN HOUSING CORPORATION: $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bridges: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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.

Monterey Peninsula Fo…Community Foundation …The James Irvine Foun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Community Hospital of…Nancy Buck Ransom Fou…Sunlight GivingThe David and Lucile …East Bay Community Fo…Pebble Beach Company …Dignity HealthThe California Endowm…
Monterey Peninsula FoundationCA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · The James Irvine Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Sunlight Giving · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Dignity Health · The California Endowment

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 United Way of Monterey County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Monterey County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 22 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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