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Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County
Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County (California) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,434,637 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($3,590,250). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County does
Mission
To inspire and empower the youth of Monterey County to realize their full potential to become responsible, healthy, productive and successful citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Academic Success Initiative ensures that every child we serve achieves on-time grade progression, graduates from high school, completes post-secondary education and earns a livable wage as a productive member of their community. Through our Academic Success Initiative, BGCMC educates youth on cultural awareness, science disciplines and art programs. In order to achieve this goal BGCMC offers a wide range of academic programs, from homework assistance to literacy intervention training for elementary school aged students.The traditional Boys & Girls Club after school program model has been expanded to support youth during the school day on school campuses. Through our Girls Health & Girls Hands Program and physical Clubhouses we offer clubhouse programs to youth while they are in school, educating youth with social-emotional programs, bullying awareness programs and physical fitness programs. While program practitioners are not licensed clinicians, there is evidence that when youth are engaged in safe, predictable, structured activities with caring adults, they can reduce anxiety, depression, and mitigate post traumatic stress disorder.In the Winter of 2025 we expanded service…
$2,301,311 spentof which $115,308 as grants$97,258 earned by the program45% of program spendingThe Health & Well-Being Initiative promotes wellness of youth and families. Targeted programs within the Health & Well-Being Initiative focus on prevention, with an emphasis on nutrition education, avoidance of risky behaviors, self awareness, recreation and teaching youth how to navigate through sensitive social situations. Emotional wellness check ins for youth occurred weekly throughout the school year of 2024-25, in person at the club facilities as well as through online afternoon programs. Utilizing the Skills Mastery and Resistance Training (SMART) Moves emotional wellness curriculum and other activities, BGCMC encouraged youth to maintain journals, communicate regularly with trusted individuals, and understand the benefits of meditation and yoga.In 2025 our program expanded services for Health & Well-Being to support students in school by offering physical fitness. In three schools we brought our Triple Play program to teach youth physical fitness and get them active during their school day. Partnering with local schools expanded our reach and gave youth in Monterey County more access to physical fitness and activities.
$1,896,763 spent37% of program spendingThe Character & Leadership Initiative develops strong leaders and encourages youth to become community-minded individuals, engaged and informed. BGCMC staff consistently model good character and encourage youth to make positive choices and serve others. Youth of the Month and Youth of the Year programs emphasize servant leadership, community involvement and public service. Members receive public recognition and a platform to champion important initiatives. Youth of the Year is a BGCA program that shines light on the impact Boys & Girls Clubs have on America's youth locally and nationally.Our programming also gives youth a chance to give back to their club and community through our service-based leadership clubs; Keystone & Torch Club. Members worked to create fun events for their peers and educational events for families. These members serve as leaders in their clubhouses.
$920,685 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,118,759.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $15M to $19M (+28%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 12% · 2018 9% · 2019 7% · 2020 13% · 2021 19% · 2022 6% · 2023 6% · 2024 10% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Ron Johnson
CEO/President
Board chair
Gina Nucci
Chair & Secretary (trans 12/24)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 28 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.5M.
21 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 22% · 2019 22% · 2020 23% · 2021 25% · 2022 66% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6.0M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County?
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County (California) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,434,637 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($3,590,250). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $16,434,637 in grants to Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,590,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 86 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing