University Corporation at Monterey Bay
Monterey, CA · EIN 77-0387459. Reported 85 grants totalling $47.0M to 32 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 University Corporation at Monterey Bay, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in education -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE B114).
- How spread out its giving is. 32 distinct organizations, with 82% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 81% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $56,304. Half of what it reported fell between $24,296 and $166,306; the smallest was $6,951 and the largest $14.5M. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California State University Monterey Bay | Seaside, CA | $38.7M | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay | Seaside, CA | $1,664,962 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hartnell College | Salinas, CA | $1,261,580 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| UC Regents Davis | West Scramento, CA | $755,126 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| California State University Dominguez Hills Toro Auxiliary Par | Carson, CA | $723,130 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Csu Channel Island | Camarillo, CA | $472,290 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Resource Conservation District of Monterey County | Salinas, CA | $359,523 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California | Santa Cruz, CA | $316,170 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| San Jose State University Research Foundation | San Jose, CA | $312,504 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| El Camino Community College | Torrance, CA | $275,355 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $263,346 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| California State University Long Beach Research Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $244,769 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Openet Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $235,516 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Csu Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation | Fullerton, CA | $177,372 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Monterey Peninsula College | Monterey, CA | $163,363 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Panetta Institute for Public Policy | Seaside, CA | $160,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Villanova University | Villanova, PA | $143,659 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| UC Regents Merced | Merced, CA | $120,574 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The University Corporation | Northridge, CA | $96,376 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Big Sur Land Trust | Monterey, CA | $70,210 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| San Diego State University Foundation | San Diego, CA | $62,790 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for Community Advocacy | Salinas, CA | $61,019 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Action Council of Monterey County Inc | Salinas, CA | $60,286 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Winona State University | Winona, MN | $58,104 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cabrillo College | Aptos, CA | $50,834 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $43,484 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Evapotranspiration Plus LLC | Twin Falls, ID | $32,360 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chartwells (compass Group) | Los Angeles, CA | $31,170 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Monmouth College | Monmouth, IL | $27,729 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| California State University Fresno Foundation | Fresno, CA | $15,327 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Francisco State University | San Francisco, CA | $14,634 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Colorado State University Foundation | Fort Collins, CO | $9,929 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
24 of 32 (75%) 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.
- California State University Monterey Bay
UNIVERSITY SUPPORT AND SCHOLARSHIPS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 13 of 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 21 | $16.3M | $30,706 |
| 2022 | 21 | $6,865,915 | $61,019 |
| 2023 | 22 | $11.8M | $56,293 |
| 2024 | 21 | $12.0M | $56,304 |
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
99% 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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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $56,304 -- 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 University Corporation at Monterey Bay's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 8 Upper Ragsdale Drive, Monterey, CA, 93940.
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