California · Nonprofit
RANCHO CIELO INC
RANCHO CIELO INC (California) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,888,516 to it, the largest being MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ($931,800). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
RANCHO CIELO INC's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 49 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,925 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Arts Council for Monterey Countylocal
- Premier America Credit Unionportfolio match
- Sarah Ketterer Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 21% · 2022 16% · 2023 15% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of RANCHO CIELO INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $614k → $1.5M.
21 of 103 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $69k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation Santa Cruz County). These are real filings, and they are not money RANCHO CIELO INC raised.
From the IRS filings of RANCHO CIELO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 103 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
RANCHO CIELO INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
47% 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 RANCHO CIELO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 18% · 2019 14% · 2020 30% · 2021 15% · 2022 16% · 2023 13% — 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
46% of RANCHO CIELO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
71% of RANCHO CIELO INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 103 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Arts Council for Monterey CountylocalCA · funds 50 organizations near you
- Premier America Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sarah Ketterer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lamb Family Foundation %Dave Lambportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The F2 Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joseph Drown Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Guardsmenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ceres Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Housing Improvement Systems & Planning AssociationlocalCA · funds 19 organizations near you
- Alexander F Victor FoundationlocalCA · funds 30 organizations near you
- William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman FoundationlocalCA · funds 25 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding RANCHO CIELO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Labor$1.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like RANCHO CIELO INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 RANCHO CIELO INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC?
- RANCHO CIELO INC (California) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,888,516 to it, the largest being MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ($931,800). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RANCHO CIELO INC have?
- IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $7,888,516 in grants to RANCHO CIELO INC, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RANCHO CIELO INC?
- MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $931,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RANCHO CIELO INC 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 103funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing