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MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION

MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,500 to it, the largest being RITA & LUIS ECHENIQUE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($24,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$64k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$41k
Net assets
$81k
2/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Monterey County Dance Foundation does

Mission

To raise funds and distribute funds in south county that best assist and promote the needs of our youth and community in the performing art of dance.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Providing scholarships for dance education to students who qualify.

    $10,890 spentof which $10,890 as grants
    26% of program spending
  2. Providing all the funding for the annual nutcracker ballet and spring ballet as well as hiring staff and creative directors. All ticket sale proceeds from the events are used to support future scholarships and productions.

    $31,521 spent
    74% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,411.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($70k) Expenses 100 ($60k) Net assets 100 ($48k)2020 Revenue 58 ($40k) Expenses 62 ($37k) Net assets 106 ($51k)2024 Revenue 96 ($67k) Expenses 106 ($63k) Net assets 144 ($69k)2025 Revenue 92 ($64k) Expenses 87 ($52k) Net assets 169 ($81k)
2019202020242025
Revenue (92)Expenses (87)Net assets (169)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $69k to $81k (+17%).

$48k
$51k
$69k
$81k
2019202020242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’19
$3k
’20
$3k
’24
$12k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION’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

MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

40% 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 MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION.

60%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

100% of MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

80%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION?
MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,500 to it, the largest being RITA & LUIS ECHENIQUE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($24,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,500 in grants to MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION?
RITA & LUIS ECHENIQUE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MONTEREY COUNTY DANCE FOUNDATION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing