California · Nonprofit
Set Free Monterey Bay
Set Free Monterey Bay (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $254,891 to it, the largest being The Smith Martini Foundation ($80,731). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $645k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $255k
- Net assets
- $192k
What Set Free Monterey Bay does
Mission
Set Free Monterey Bay aspires to be the guide that equips a child to evade human trafficking, the wisdom that guides community leaders toward successful human trafficking eradication, and the last stop on a survivors journey to healing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Set Free provides in-patient residential safe house for female survivors of sex trafficking.
$232,504 spentof which $10,000 as grants$300 earned by the program89% of program spendingSet Free provides training and education around the county to keep the public informed of the crisis that is human trafficking.
$23,546 spent$3,300 earned by the program9% of program spendingSet Free provides outpatient services for the individuals that have gone through the program to continue to support those affected by human trafficking.
$5,893 spent$900 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $261,943.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $80k to $245k (+207%).
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.
90% of Set Free Monterey Bay’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $34k.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 Set Free Monterey Bay’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
Set Free Monterey Bay leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 Set Free Monterey Bay.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 95% · 2022 65% · 2023 56% — 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
73% of Set Free Monterey Bay's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k 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.
Against its field
Set Free Monterey Bay has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Set Free Monterey Bay
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Set Free Monterey Bay: 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 Set Free Monterey Bay?
- Set Free Monterey Bay (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $254,891 to it, the largest being The Smith Martini Foundation ($80,731). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Set Free Monterey Bay have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $254,891 in grants to Set Free Monterey Bay, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Set Free Monterey Bay?
- The Smith Martini Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $80,731 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Set Free Monterey Bay 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 14 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