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Monterey Peninsula College Foundation

Monterey Peninsula College Foundation (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,946,171 to it, the largest being MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ($610,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$16M
19/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Monterey Peninsula College Foundation does

Mission

To provide financial assistance to monterey peninsula college mpc students and enhance the learning environment at mpc by supporting faculty staff and programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Instructional & teaching materials and educational program support for monterey peninsula college

    $610,494 spentof which $610,494 as grants$671,543 earned by the program
    37% of program spending
  2. Scholarships and grants to students of monterey peninsula college a public educational institution.

    $1,035,039 spentof which $587,320 as grants
    63% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,645,533.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($5.8M)2018 Revenue 118 ($2.1M) Expenses 82 ($1.1M) Net assets 107 ($6.2M)2019 Revenue 169 ($3.1M) Expenses 132 ($1.8M) Net assets 137 ($8.0M)2020 Revenue 106 ($1.9M) Expenses 96 ($1.3M) Net assets 165 ($9.6M)2021 Revenue 144 ($2.6M) Expenses 133 ($1.8M) Net assets 192 ($11M)2022 Revenue 38 ($681k) Expenses 116 ($1.6M) Net assets 172 ($10M)2023 Revenue 207 ($3.8M) Expenses 181 ($2.5M) Net assets 212 ($12M)2024 Revenue 98 ($1.8M) Expenses 116 ($1.6M) Net assets 231 ($13M)2025 Revenue 115 ($2.1M) Expenses 154 ($2.1M) Net assets 268 ($16M)
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Revenue (115)Expenses (154)Net assets (268)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $14M (+23%).

$7.1M
$7.4M
$9.0M
$11M
$12M
$11M
$14M
$15M
$17M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2021 74% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

76% of Monterey Peninsula College Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$450k
’17
$1.0M
’18
$1.3M
’19
$603k
’20
$790k
’21
−$905k
’22
$1.3M
’23
$202k
’24
−$19k
’25
4.7
months of
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

Rebecca Michael

Executive director non vot

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed262521232424262423
Joined·+7+3+7+4+11+3+4+7
No longer listed·875311168
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 11 funders, grant income fell $220k → $154k.

5 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Monterey Peninsula College Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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

Monterey Peninsula College Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

58% 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 Peninsula College Foundation.

31%
largest funder
52%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 21% · 2019 16% · 2020 25% · 2021 17% · 2022 30% · 2023 35% — 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

48% of Monterey Peninsula College Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

90% of Monterey Peninsula College Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.

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ID
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NJ
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NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $318k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Monterey Peninsula College Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve4.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Monterey Peninsula College Foundation

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 8%Fundraising 13%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Monterey Peninsula College · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Monterey Peninsula College Foundation?
Monterey Peninsula College Foundation (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,946,171 to it, the largest being MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ($610,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Monterey Peninsula College Foundation have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,946,171 in grants to Monterey Peninsula College Foundation, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Monterey Peninsula College Foundation?
MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $610,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Monterey Peninsula College 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.

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 28 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