California · Nonprofit
CARMEL CARES
CARMEL CARES (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $447,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($204,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $516k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $447k
- Net assets
- $170k
What Carmel Cares does
Mission
Dedicated to keeping carmel-by-the-sea a beautiful, safe, and inviting place through volunteer maintenance and improvement projects, branded community engagement programs, educational outreach and other creative activities. We partner closely with the city of carmel's public works department and other nonprofit organizations to make a difference in our community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Beautification - the organization works to create and maintain a beautiful landscape aesthetic for those enjoying the city of carmel-by-the-sea. This year our volunteers completed significant improvement infrastructure on scenic pathway and reduced erosion on stone beach access stairways. The organization helped maintain the historic forest theater grounds with weekly cleaning, planting of native plants and donated rollup cover for sound booth. The median minder program enabled residents to adopt median islands and easements in their neighborhood and assisted them in making landscape improvements. Carmel Cares also designs and builds various hand-made, high quality structures that are placed around town. This includes library shrines (take-a-book, leave-a-book), cute covers for backflow preventers and other pump systems that are unsightly, visitor information and newspaper racks, and displays for showbills at theaters. Finally, the Carmel Cares pick up posse kept the city litter-free and acted as ambassadors for visitors and locals.
$357,683 spentof which $5,000 as grants$29,269 earned by the program80% of program spendingSafety - in order to ensure the carmel community continues to be a place that is welcoming for visitors and residents alike and to protect the city from legal issues, the organization has put a focus on improving safety within our community. As part of this program we identify projects that are in need of repair or assets that are in need of replacement by the city. We work closely with the city of carmel and the public works department to identify needs and step in where we can. This past year the organization made significant safety improvements around the city.
$89,769 spent$26,100 earned by the program20% of program spendingInviting - the organization forms collaborative relationships with other local exempt organizations whose missions are aligned with improving the city of carmel. Through these efforts the organization looks to find ways that they can support one another and work closely to best utilize resources provided for the benefit of the city. The organization also, through their volunteer program, provides training and on-site activities so that volunteers can learn more about the ongoing needs of the city as well as tangible ways they can help continue to keep the city a warm and inviting place to visit and live. Organization leaders attend almost all city government meetings, are active in many civic organizations, and play a very active role in encouraging, participating in, and supporting activities that protect the historical and artistic nature and natural resources of our village in the forest.
$0 spent$10,000 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $447,452.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $20k to $91k (+349%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Mark Diorio
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $55k → $53k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 CARMEL CARES’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
CARMEL CARES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 CARMEL CARES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 91% · 2022 26% · 2023 48% — 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.
Where its funders are
60% of CARMEL CARES'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 $179k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside California, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like CARMEL CARES
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARMEL CARES: 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 CARMEL CARES?
- CARMEL CARES (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $447,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($204,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CARMEL CARES have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $447,000 in grants to CARMEL CARES, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARMEL CARES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $204,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARMEL CARES 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 16 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