Funding search · EIN 942808039 · Aptos, CA
Community Foundation Santa Cruz
A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.
- 953
- grants reported
- $77.4M
- total given
- 2022–2024
- filing years
- $21,300
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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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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