Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust
Watsonville, CA · EIN 94-1149702. Reported 74 grants totalling $8,032,100 to 45 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E70) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 45 distinct organizations, with 75% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 42% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $6,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pajaro Valley Healthcare District Project | Watsonville, CA | $6,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pajaro Valley Unified School | Watsonville, CA | $231,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Various | Watsonville, CA | $210,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County Inc | Watsonville, CA | $115,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cabrillo College | Aptos, CA | $100,400 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance Inc | Watsonville, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ventures | Watsonville, CA | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| United Way of Santa Cruz County | Capitola, CA | $68,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Community Bridges | Watsonville, CA | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Dientes Community Dental Care | Santa Cruz, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Foodwhat Incorporated | Santa Cruz, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jacobs Heart Childrens Cancer Support Services | Watsonville, CA | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Cabrillo College Foundation | Aptos, CA | $54,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County | Watsonville, CA | $52,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Family Service Agency of the Central Coast | Santa Cruz, CA | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Girls Incorporated of the Centralcoast | Salinas, CA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Live Earth Farm Discovery Program | Watsonville, CA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| NAMI Santa Cruz County | Watsonville, CA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center | Santa Cruz, CA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Teen Kitchen Project | Soquel, CA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Cabrillo College Foundation | Aptos, CA | $42,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Rural Legal Assistance Inc | Modesto, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Families in Transition of Santa Cruz County Inc | Santa Cruz, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pajaro Valley Unified School Distrcit | Watsonville, CA | $39,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Santa Cruz County Parks | Santa Cruz, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hospice of Santa Cruz County | Scotts Valley, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Life Lab Science Program | Santa Cruz, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pajaro Valley High School | Aptos, CA | $30,000 | 4 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Watsonville | Watonville, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Digital Nest Inc | Watsonville, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Acupuncturists Without Borders | Portland, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Central Coast Young Mens Christian Association | Monterey, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| El Pajaro Community Development Corporation | Watsonville, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International | Santa Cruz, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes Inc | Watsonville, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Salud Para La Gente | Watsonville, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Santa Cruz Community Health Centers | Santa Cruz, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center | Santa Cruz, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired | Palo Alto, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Live Oak School District | Santa Cruz, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Monterey Bay Economic Partners | Marina, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Reiter Affiliated Companies | Oxnard, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos Inc | Santa Cruz, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County | Santa Cruz, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Watsonville Rotary Foundation | Watsonville, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
16 of 45 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Community Action Board
CARES ACT GRANT AND GENERAL FUNDS - Pv Prevention & Stud Assist
PV SAVE LIVES COMMUNITY GROUP - Cabrillo College Foundation
EISKAMP AND SINGLE YEAR SCHOLARSHIP - Cabrillo College
ESIKAMP AND SINGLE YEAR SCHOLARSHIP - California Rural Legal Assist
GENERAL FUNDS FOR COVID 19 - United Way of Santa Cruz County
CARES ACT GRANT & GEN'L FUNDS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 45 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 31 | $1,076,700 | $20,000 |
| 2021 | 21 | $6,309,200 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 18 | $345,200 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 4 | $301,000 | $40,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 85 Nielson Street, Watsonville, CA, 95076.
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