Community Foundation Santa Cruz

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

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Top recipients

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• Pajaro Valley Healthcare District Project1 grant · $7.5M
• American Online Giving Foundation3 grants · $6.2M
• Catholic Charities Diocese of Monterey3 grants · $4.1M
• Land Trust of Santa Cruz County3 grants · $3.2M
• Amah Mutsun Land Trust3 grants · $2.4M
• Uc Santa Cruz Foundation3 grants · $2.1M
• Santa Cruz Community Health Centers1 grant · $1.9M
• Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County (Cab)3 grants · $1.8M
• Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation3 grants · $1.5M
• Escuelas Sustentables Ac2 grants · $1.4M

Giving over time

Grant history

The 100 largest of 953 grants.

• $7.5M

  Pajaro Valley Healthcare District Project · Watsonville, CA · 2022

  To support the watsonville community hospital acquisition

• $2.8M

  American Online Giving Foundation · Newark, DE · 2024

  General operating support, recognition of employee service hours

• $2.2M

  American Online Giving Foundation · Newark, DE · 2023

  For general operating support, donation match and recognition of volunteers service hours

• $2.0M

  Amah Mutsun Land Trust · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022

  For general operating support, purchasing property

• $1.9M

  Santa Cruz Community Health Centers · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022

  For general operating support, vaccine pop up clinics and outreach with cradle 2 career

• $1.7M

  Catholic Charities Diocese of Monterey · Seaside, CA · 2023

  For general operating support, to support czu fire victims and their related expenses

• $1.3M

  Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County (Cab) · Watsonville, CA · 2023

  For general operating support, disaster support and rise together circle of support

• $1.3M

  Catholic Charities Diocese of Monterey · Seaside, CA · 2022

  For general operating support, to support czu fire victims and their related expenses

• $1.3M

  Uc Santa Cruz Foundation · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022

  For general operating support, long marine lab, humanities institute, library, & more

• $1.3M

  Land Trust of Santa Cruz County · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  General operating support, beach ranch project, circle p ranch

• $1.2M

  Land Trust of Santa Cruz County · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023

  To support strategic plan, general operating support, conservation circle

• $1.2M

  American Online Giving Foundation · Newark, DE · 2022

  For general operating support, donation match and recognition of volunteers' service hours

• $1.1M

  Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Truckee, CA · 2022

  For give back tahoe with the funds directed to the sierra community house

• $1.1M

  Catholic Charities Diocese of Monterey · Seaside, CA · 2024

  General operating support, czu support & case management

• $1.0M

  Incomm Incentives · Portland, OR · 2023

  For disaster support

• $937,047

  The 418 Project · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  General operating support, secret santa, rise together investment

• $872,000

  Escuelas Sustentables Ac · 2023

  To construct the las estrellitas day care in the san quintin region of baja california

• $837,500

  Dientes Community Dental Care · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023

  For general operating support, agency payout request

• $693,034

  Land Trust of Santa Cruz County · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022

  For general operating support

• $646,625

  Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County · Watsonville, CA · 2023

  For general operating support and disaster support programs

• $620,456

  Community Bridges · Watsonville, CA · 2023

  For general operating support, meals on wheels, mcr, disaster support

• $554,500

  Pajaro Valley Healthcare District Project (Dba Watsonville Community Hospit · Watsonville, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $540,210

  Pajaro Valley Unified School District · Watsonville, CA · 2023

  For raising a reader, agency payout request to teaching kitchen/garden learning center

• $539,185

  Elkhorn Slough Foundation · Moss Landing, CA · 2022

  For general operating support

• $528,600

  Escuelas Sustentables Ac · 2022

  To support creation and renovation of schools/parks in michoacn, puebla, jalisco, mxico

• $505,000

  Cal Poly Foundation · San Luis Obispo, CA · 2024

  Thomas mackin fund, cal poly farm store, center for innovation and entrepreneurship

• $457,993

  Cabrillo College Foundation · Aptos, CA · 2024

  General operating support, wes, emergency fund, cap, & more

• $430,595

  Santa Cruz Shakespeare · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  General operating support, capital campaign

• $408,888

  Uc Santa Cruz Foundation · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023

  For general operating support, long marine lab, humanities institute, library, & more

• $400,000

  Uc Santa Cruz Foundation · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  General operating, humanities institute, arboretum, seymour marine center

• $394,317

  Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County (Cab) · Watsonville, CA · 2022

  For general operating support

• $384,629

  Community Bridges · Watsonville, CA · 2022

  For general operating support, meals on wheels, food from the heart, mcr, czu fire relief

• $369,104

  Cabrillo College Foundation · Aptos, CA · 2022

  For general operating support, plus cap, wes, scholarships, emergency grants & more

• $367,673

  Santa Cruz Community Health · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  General operating support, adolescent opioid use disorder

• $351,306

  Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County · Watsonville, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $329,556

  University of Tulsa · Tulsa, OK · 2022

  For scholarship funding

• $319,557

  Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County · Watsonville, CA · 2022

  For general operating support, the community kitchen program, holiday food and fund drive

• $316,955

  Elkhorn Slough Foundation · Moss Landing, CA · 2024

  General operating support, capital campaign

• $312,248

  Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022

  For general operating support, acquisition and operations

• $308,000

  Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Truckee, CA · 2024

  The donor party charitable fund, scholarship support

• $300,000

  Ohio Bird Sanctuary · Mansfield, OH · 2022

  For the obs wings campaign

• $300,000

  Stanford University-School of Medicine · Stanford, CA · 2022

  Support research of department of orthopaedic surgery

• $279,224

  Cruzio · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022

  For reimbursement requests

• $269,726

  Cabrillo College Foundation · Aptos, CA · 2023

  For general operating support, plus cap, wes, scholarships, & more

• $269,012

  The 418 Project · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023

  For matching funds, capital campaign, general operating support

• $262,852

  Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center (Santa Cruz Museum of Art · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023

  For history awards, rydell exhibition, london nelson legacy initiative, sewing seeds

• $260,000

  Rice University · Houston, TX · 2024

  General operating support, openstax

• $259,676

  County Park Friends · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  General operating, treasure cove park, junior guards, de young museum

• $253,500

  Amah Mutsun Land Trust · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023

  For general operating support, strategic planning

• $250,000

  Hope Crisis Response Network · Santa Rosa, CA · 2023

  For disaster support

• $250,000

  Rank the Vote · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  For general operating support

• $250,000

  Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2022

  For office of climate scoring

• $250,000

  Csumb Foundation · Seaside, CA · 2022

  To fund endowed position in new agribusiness supply chain management program at csumb

• $250,000

  Planet Women · Bainbridge Island, WA · 2022

  For general operating support

• $241,368

  Hospice of Santa Cruz County · Scotts Valley, CA · 2024

  General operating support, grief program, angels program

• $233,249

  Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes · Watsonville, CA · 2023

  For general operating support, empty bowl fundraising, matching funds

• $222,593

  Casa De La Cultura Center · Watsonville, CA · 2023

  For general operating support and matching for volunteers' service hours

• $219,877

  Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022

  For general operating support, for the literacy program, pei, emerging jedi awards

• $219,704

  Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory · Crested Butte, CO · 2022

  For general operating support, support grad fellowship in ecology & evolution of plants

• $218,917

  Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County (Hipscc) · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  Mat-advisory group, adolescent and young adult learning collaborative

• $208,154

  Community Bridges · Watsonville, CA · 2024

  General operating support, meals on wheels

• $208,008

  Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Warwick, RI · 2024

  The burke borina vanguard charitable account

• $201,762

  Ecology Action · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023

  For carbon neutral santa cruz county initiative, program support, think bike study trip

• $200,000

  Emergency Assistance Foundation · Orlando, FL · 2023

  For immediate response program for california winter storms in january 2023

• $200,000

  Rank the Vote · Cambridge, MA · 2022

  For general operating support

• $196,441

  American Civil Liberties Union Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

  For general operating support

• $193,250

  Digital Nest · Watsonville, CA · 2023

  For general operating support

• $192,671

  Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center (Santa Cruz Museum of Art · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022

  For general operating support

• $189,250

  Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  General operating support, whale restoration

• $187,969

  Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023

  For general operating support, for the literacy program, pei, emerging jedi awards

• $186,250

  Community Foundation for Monterey County · Monterey, CA · 2023

  For monterey gives campaign, disaster support and general operating support

• $186,192

  Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  General operating support, santa cruz gives, helping hands

• $182,900

  Dientes Community Dental Care · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  General operating, watsonville expansion, commercial way clinic remodel

• $180,000

  Rice University · Houston, TX · 2023

  For general operating support

• $180,000

  Rice University · Houston, TX · 2022

  For general operating support

• $179,258

  Hospice of Santa Cruz County · Scotts Valley, CA · 2023

  For general operating support, program support, matching grants

• $179,151

  Mar Vista Field Project · Watsonville, CA · 2024

  To rehabilitate grass field and irrigation infrastructure

• $178,000

  Health Care Foundation of Ventura County · Ventura, CA · 2023

  For indigenous medical interpretation program to purchase equipment for diabetes clinics

• $175,420

  Santa Cruz Shakespeare · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023

  For general operating support

• $161,761

  Save the Children Federation · Fairfield, CT · 2022

  To support summerboost, kim son school, it learning room, & more

• $161,000

  Dominican Hospital Foundation · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  General operating, healing garden, prostate cancer support group, wigs

• $152,765

  Santa Cruz Local · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023

  For general operating support and spanish language programming

• $150,000

  Prorep Coalition · Grass Valley, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  California Farm Link · Aptos, CA · 2023

  For general operating support

• $150,000

  Santa Cruz City Parks and Recreation Department · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023

  To support inasive plant removal at pogonip and moore creek preserve

• $150,000

  Bruce W Woolpert Algebra Academy · Watsonville, CA · 2022

  For general operating support

• $150,000

  California Farm Link · Aptos, CA · 2022

  For general operating support

• $148,000

  Housing Matters · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022

  For general operating support, rebele family shelter program and modular housing project

• $144,498

  Hospice of Santa Cruz County · Scotts Valley, CA · 2022

  For general operating support

• $143,332

  Agri-Culture · Watsonville, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $142,004

  Vision Mundial De Mexico Ac · 2023

  To support strengthening skills for life for adolescents and their families

• $140,000

  Aromas San Juan Bautista Community Schools Foundation · San Juan Bautista, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $136,004

  Pajaro Valley Youth Soccer Club · Freedom, CA · 2024

  Development programs and coaching certifications

• $135,583

  Pajaro Valley Youth Soccer Club · Freedom, CA · 2022

  For general operating support

• $135,508

  Pajaro Valley Shelter Services · Watsonville, CA · 2024

  General operating support, education support

• $135,000

  Arts Council Santa Cruz County · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022

  For general support, open studios, mariposa arts, and arts education

• $132,448

  Encompass Community Services · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  Si se puede, zero overdose

• $130,000

  Hoover Institution - Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $130,000

  Hoover Institution - Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023

  For general operating support

• $128,000

  Senior Legal Services of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  General operating support, event sponsorship

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