Meet our Nonprofits

Holding Onto Hope

Year Founded: 2024
Paid Staff:
Volunteers:
Budget: $190,000
Phone: (831) 385-8330

Hope Horses & Kids

Year Founded: 2010
Paid Staff: 7
Volunteers: 20
Budget: $330,100
Phone: (831) 596-6693

Hospice Giving Foundation

Year Founded: 1997
Paid Staff: 7
Volunteers: 50
Budget: $1,442,397
Phone: (831) 333-9023

Monterey Peninsula Ballet Theatre (MPBT)

Year Founded: 2017
Paid Staff: 7
Volunteers: 120
Budget: $244,340
Phone: (831) 998-0793

Marina Youth Arts

Year Founded: 2005
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 30
Budget: $77,000
Phone: (831) 204-0513

Blind and Visually Impaired Center of Monterey County, Inc,

Year Founded: 1971
Paid Staff: 13
Volunteers: 5
Budget: $722,000
Phone: (831) 649-3505

Santa Lucia Conservancy

Year Founded: 1995
Paid Staff: 11
Volunteers: 1132
Budget: $2,789,603
Phone: (831) 626-8595

I Cantori di Carmel

Year Founded: 1981
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 50
Budget: $220,000
Phone: (831) 644-8012

Nancy's Project

Year Founded: 1971
Paid Staff: 4
Volunteers: 57
Budget: $293,690
Phone: (831) 920-7737

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)

Year Founded: 2007
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 34
Budget: $297,000
Phone: (831) 582-5500

Victory Mission

Year Founded: 1959
Paid Staff: 9
Volunteers: 19
Budget: $690,115
Phone: (831) 424-5688

Monterey Public Library Friends & Foundation

Year Founded: 1999
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 60
Budget: $160,000
Phone: (831) 646-5602

National Steinbeck Center

Year Founded: 1984
Paid Staff: 8
Volunteers: 20
Budget: $450,000
Phone: (831) 775-4721

ITNMonterey County

Year Founded: 2012
Paid Staff: 14
Volunteers: 56
Budget: $741,500
Phone: (831) 233-3447

York School

Year Founded: 1959
Paid Staff: 30
Volunteers: 100
Budget: $6,360,000
Phone: (831) 372-7338

Salinas Area Reading For Fun

Year Founded: 1975
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 60
Budget: $68,225
Phone: (831) 455-0885

Legal Services for Seniors (LSS)

Year Founded: 1985
Paid Staff: 10
Volunteers: 10
Budget: $1,101,311
Phone: (831) 899-0492

Carmel Music Society

Year Founded: 1927
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 14
Budget: $112,000
Phone: (831) 625-9938

Arts Council for Monterey County

Year Founded: 1982
Paid Staff: 30
Volunteers: 40
Budget: $2,166,261
Phone: (831) 622-9060

Monterey County Pops!

Year Founded: 1985
Paid Staff: 5
Volunteers: 20
Budget: $225,000
Phone: (831) 206-2588

Housing For School Kids

Year Founded: 1945
Paid Staff: 27
Volunteers: 65
Budget: $5,566,706
Phone: (831) 375-9712

Foundation for Monterey County Free Libraries

Year Founded: 1989
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 3
Budget: $415,000
Phone: (831) 424-3564

Monterey County Historical Society

Year Founded: 1933
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 22
Budget: $180,000
Phone: (831) 757-8085

Monterey Waterkeeper

Year Founded: 2021
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 25
Budget: $175,586
Phone: (831) 204-1381

Youth Music Monterey County

Year Founded: 1988
Paid Staff: 14
Volunteers: 127
Budget: $588,000
Phone: (831) 375-1992

Monterey Bay Master Gardeners

Year Founded: 1995
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 143
Budget: $69,766
Phone: (831) 759-7350

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monterey Bay

Year Founded: 1982
Paid Staff: 4
Volunteers: 225
Budget: $350,000
Phone: (831) 464-8691

Carl Cherry Center for the Arts

Year Founded: 1948
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 89
Budget: $187,275
Phone: (831) 624-7491

Salvation Army, Monterey Peninsula Corps

Year Founded: 1900
Paid Staff: 19
Volunteers: 27
Budget: $3,300,000
Phone: (831) 899-4911

World Affairs Council Monterey Bay

Year Founded: 1951
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 38
Budget: $61,800
Phone: (831) 643-1855

Peace of Mind Dog Rescue

Year Founded: 2009
Paid Staff: 37
Volunteers: 1814
Budget: $2,895,213
Phone: (831) 718-9122

Musikiwest

Year Founded: 2017
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 10
Budget: $62,100
Phone: (650) 815-1666

Elkhorn Slough Foundation

Year Founded: 1982
Paid Staff: 30
Volunteers: 100
Budget: $7,543,944
Phone: (831) 728-5939

Natividad Medical Foundation

Year Founded: 1988
Paid Staff: 11
Volunteers: 60
Budget: $1,543,999
Phone: (831) 755-4187

Harmony At Home

Year Founded: 2004
Paid Staff: 71
Volunteers: 14
Budget: $5,158,751
Phone: (831) 625-5160

Ensemble Monterey Chamber Orchestra

Year Founded: 1992
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 7
Budget: $125,000
Phone: (831) 333-1283

Palenke Arts

Year Founded: 2018
Paid Staff: 20
Volunteers: 55
Budget: $850,000
Phone: (831) 899-9909

Dentistry 4 Vets

Year Founded: 2018
Paid Staff: 7
Volunteers: 16
Budget: $883,590
Phone: (831) 883-9371

AIM Youth Mental Health

Year Founded: 2014
Paid Staff: 5
Volunteers: 95
Budget: $1,288,380
Phone: (831) 372-1600

Monterey County Rape Crisis Center

Year Founded: 1973
Paid Staff: 23
Volunteers: 35
Budget: $2,161,047
Phone: (831) 373-3955

RotaCare Monterey Clinic

Year Founded: 1995
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 49
Budget: $126,811
Phone: (831) 333-6495

Heritage Society of Pacific Grove

Year Founded: 1975
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 14
Budget: $20,500
Phone: (831) 372-2898

Community Association of Big Sur (CABS)

Year Founded: 1985
Paid Staff: 3
Volunteers: 35
Budget: $400,000
Phone: (831) 595-0072

Rancho Cielo

Year Founded: 2000
Paid Staff: 54
Volunteers: 550
Budget: $6,477,122
Phone: (831) 444-3533

Friends of the Carmel Valley Library

Year Founded: 1980
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 6
Budget: $24,000
Phone: (831) 647-7760

Mid Coast Fire Brigade

Year Founded: 1978
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 25
Budget: $230,000
Phone: (831) 624-8287

Wonder Wood Ranch

Year Founded: 2016
Paid Staff: 10
Volunteers: 50
Budget: $249,000
Phone: (831) 235-2234

Suicide Prevention Service (SPS), a program of Family Service Agency of the Central Coast

Year Founded: 1957
Paid Staff: 83
Volunteers: 259
Budget: $696,029
Phone: (831) 459-9373

Breast Cancer Assistance Group (BCAG)

Year Founded: 1997
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 40
Budget: $455,510
Phone: (831) 649-6365

Cold Case Project of Monterey County

Year Founded: 2024
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 7
Budget: $50,000
Phone: (831) 241-0381

MY Museum

Year Founded: 1997
Paid Staff: 12
Volunteers: 50
Budget: $593,390
Phone: (831) 649-6444

Breakthrough

Year Founded: 1985
Paid Staff: 6
Volunteers: 150
Budget: $369,879
Phone: (831) 375-5441

Everyone's Harvest

Year Founded: 2002
Paid Staff: 7
Volunteers: 40
Budget: $1,929,005
Phone: (831) 384-6961

Girls Inc. of the Central Coast

Year Founded: 1999
Paid Staff: 27
Volunteers: 48
Budget: $1,544,177
Phone: (831) 772-0882

Partnership for Children

Year Founded: 2016
Paid Staff: 7
Volunteers: 120
Budget: $560,815
Phone: (831) 422-3002

Carmel Art Association

Year Founded: 1927
Paid Staff: 8
Volunteers: 80
Budget: $1,300,000
Phone: (831) 250-3347

Big Sur Park School

Year Founded: 2018
Paid Staff: 7
Volunteers: 5
Budget: $265,822
Phone: (925) 818-1806

Friends of the Ausonio Castroville Library

Year Founded: 1985
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 15
Budget: $26,267
Phone: (831) 769-8725

Catholic Charities

Year Founded: 1984
Paid Staff: 45
Volunteers: 40
Budget: $2,898,795
Phone: (831) 393-3110

Sea Otter Classic Foundation

Year Founded: 2012
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 1450
Budget: $200,000
Phone: (831) 373-2331

United Way Monterey County

Year Founded: 2000
Paid Staff: 19
Volunteers: 816
Budget: $3,934,637
Phone: (831) 372-8026

Al & Friends Sunday Breakfast

Year Founded: 2015
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 45
Budget: $95,000
Phone: (831) 251-8888

Epicenter

Year Founded: 2014
Paid Staff: 14
Volunteers: 6
Budget: $1,200,000
Phone: (831) 998-7291

SPCA Monterey County

Year Founded: 1905
Paid Staff: 95
Volunteers: 450
Budget: $13,690,000
Phone: (831) 373-2631

Meals on Wheels of the Monterey Peninsula

Year Founded: 1972
Paid Staff: 36
Volunteers: 607
Budget: $5,729,244
Phone: (831) 375-4454

Carmel Foundation

Year Founded: 1950
Paid Staff: 19
Volunteers: 106
Budget: $3,657,060
Phone: (831) 624-1588

Friends of the Marina Library

Year Founded: 1990
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 125
Budget: $103,400
Phone: (831) 682-8016

Alliance on Aging

Year Founded: 1970
Paid Staff: 26
Volunteers: 210
Budget: $2,350,000
Phone: (831) 655-7564

Restorative Justice Partners, Inc. (RJP)

Year Founded: 1987
Paid Staff: 6
Volunteers: 35
Budget: $717,890
Phone: (831) 869-7641

Tor House

Year Founded: 1978
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 40
Budget: $146,490
Phone: (831) 624-1813

LandWatch Monterey County

Year Founded: 1997
Paid Staff: 3
Volunteers: 50
Budget: $500,000
Phone: (831) 759-2824

Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Support Services

Year Founded: 1998
Paid Staff: 27
Volunteers: 200
Budget: $2,082,808
Phone: (831) 724-9100

First Tee - Monterey County

Year Founded: 2004
Paid Staff: 74
Volunteers: 163
Budget: $5,200,000
Phone: (831) 800-3452

Junior Achievement of Northern California

Year Founded: 1950
Paid Staff: 18
Volunteers: 1000
Budget: $275,000
Phone: (465) 925-1070

Weston Collective

Year Founded: 2004
Paid Staff: 4
Volunteers: 20
Budget: $96,000
Phone: (831) 233-2100

Veterans Transition Center of California

Year Founded: 1996
Paid Staff: 37
Volunteers: 10
Budget: $7,100,000
Phone: (831) 883-8387

Cooper-Molera Adobe

Year Founded: 1968
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 35
Budget: $315,000
Phone: (831) 259-4513

Healing Partners of the Central Coast

Year Founded: 2019
Paid Staff: 8
Volunteers: 40
Budget: $300,933
Phone: (800) 205-8101

Village Project, Inc. (TVPI)

Year Founded: 2008
Paid Staff: 38
Volunteers: 50
Budget: $2,500,000
Phone: (831) 392-1500

Alisal Center For Fine Arts

Year Founded: 1986
Paid Staff: 9
Volunteers: 50
Budget: $250,000
Phone: (831) 758-5715

Interim, Inc.

Year Founded: 1975
Paid Staff: 267
Volunteers: 100
Budget: $37,132,748
Phone: (831) 649-4522

Bob Hoover Academy

Year Founded: 2014
Paid Staff: 4
Volunteers: 5
Budget: $450,000
Phone: 831.597.4004

Alzheimer's Association

Year Founded: 1980
Paid Staff: 5
Volunteers: 125
Budget: $600,000
Phone: (831) 647-9890

Monterey Peninsula Pride

Year Founded: 2017
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 75
Budget: $70,000
Phone: (831) 312-8675

Tatum’s Garden Foundation

Year Founded: 2013
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 150
Budget: $147,809
Phone: (831) 998-7113

Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History

Year Founded: 2009
Paid Staff: 14
Volunteers: 143
Budget: $1,606,324
Phone: (831) 648-5716

Range of the Condor

Year Founded: 2017
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 10
Budget: $50,000
Phone: (831) 238-2787

Regenerative California

Year Founded: 2024
Paid Staff: 5
Volunteers: 12
Budget: $1,500,000
Phone: (415) 465-5533

Read to Me Project

Year Founded: 2011
Paid Staff: 8
Volunteers: 25
Budget: $494,762
Phone: (831) 275-1300

Parenting Connection of Monterey County

Year Founded: 2014
Paid Staff: 13
Volunteers: 5
Budget: $870,284
Phone: (831) 647-3333

GBA: Gil Basketball Academy

Year Founded: 2009
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 60
Budget: $225,000
Phone: (831) 710-1499

Hidden Valley Music Seminars

Year Founded: 1963
Paid Staff: 35
Volunteers: 15
Budget: $1,119,980
Phone: (831) 659-3115

Central Coast YMCA

Year Founded: 1921
Paid Staff: 264
Volunteers: 232
Budget: $3,612,559
Phone: (831) 757-4633

Keep Big Sur Wild

Year Founded: 2021
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 25
Budget: $70,000
Phone: (562) 480-4439

Stevenson School

Year Founded: 1952
Paid Staff: 195
Volunteers: 300
Budget: $8,000,000
Phone: (831) 625-8300

Housing Resource Center

Year Founded: 1984
Paid Staff: 15
Volunteers: 11
Budget: $3,564,845
Phone: (831) 424-9186

Pacific Grove Public Library Friends and Foundation (PGPL Friends and Foundation)

Year Founded: 1974
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 80
Budget: $50,000
Phone: (831) 372-5006

Bright Futures of Monterey County

Year Founded: 2015
Paid Staff: 4
Volunteers: 24
Budget: $640,935
Phone: (831) 755-6810

Coastal Kids Home Care

Year Founded: 2005
Paid Staff: 176
Volunteers: 26
Budget: $7,538,174
Phone: (800) 214-5439

Marine Mammal Center

Year Founded: 1975
Paid Staff: 138
Volunteers: 1278
Budget: $1,300,000
Phone: (415) 289-7325

Monterey College of Law (MCL)

Year Founded: 1972
Paid Staff: 28
Volunteers: 50
Budget: $3,500,000
Phone: (831) 582-4000

Fund for Independent Journalism in Monterey County

Year Founded: 2002
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 14
Budget: $250,000
Phone: (831) 394-5656

Valley Health Associates

Year Founded: 1991
Paid Staff: 17
Volunteers: 6
Budget: $2,000,000
Phone: (831) 424-6655

Point Lobos Foundation

Year Founded: 1978
Paid Staff: 3
Volunteers: 685
Budget: $965,861
Phone: (866) 338-7227

Carmel River Steelhead Association

Year Founded: 1974
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 125
Budget: $23,000
Phone: (831) 601-8649

Mujeres en Acción

Year Founded: 2015
Paid Staff: 8
Volunteers: 500
Budget: $824,305
Phone: (831) 783-1244

Pacific Grove Art Center

Year Founded: 1969
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 25
Budget: $56,000
Phone: (831) 375-2208

Emile Norman Arts Foundation Inc

Year Founded: 2021
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 40
Budget: $127,567
Phone: (831) 915-6621

Power Over Parkinson's

Year Founded: 2017
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 50
Budget: $356,806
Phone: (831) 920-1806

Fire Safe Council For Monterey County

Year Founded: 2001
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 20
Budget: $197,438
Phone: (914) 409-8050

New Canon Theatre Co.

Year Founded: 2022
Paid Staff: 20
Volunteers: 10
Budget: $160,000
Phone: (831) 275-1441

CASA of Monterey County

Year Founded: 1995
Paid Staff: 11
Volunteers: 175
Budget: $1,869,122
Phone: (831) 222-3965

Central Coast VNA & Hospice

Year Founded: 1951
Paid Staff: 174
Volunteers: 34
Budget: $31,604,259
Phone: (831) 648-3710

Monterey Jazz Festival

Year Founded: 1958
Paid Staff: 11
Volunteers: 150
Budget: $4,325,457
Phone: (831) 373-3366

Carmel Public Library Foundation

Year Founded: 1990
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 17
Budget: $1,033,018
Phone: (831) 624-2811

Big Sur Health Center

Year Founded: 1979
Paid Staff: 10
Volunteers: 35
Budget: $1,072,283
Phone: (831) 667-2580

Watsonville Wetlands Watch

Year Founded: 1991
Paid Staff: 15
Volunteers: 800
Budget: $2,951,833
Phone: (831) 728-1156

Esselen Tribe

Year Founded: 2018
Paid Staff: 8
Volunteers: 12
Budget: $546,873
Phone: (831) 301-3078

Loaves, Fishes and Computers, Inc.

Year Founded: 2009
Paid Staff: 10
Volunteers: 60
Budget: $734,811
Phone: (831) 393-9260

Youth Arts Collective (YAC)

Year Founded: 2000
Paid Staff: 12
Volunteers: 30
Budget: $455,115
Phone: (831) 375-9922

NCBI Monterey County

Year Founded: 1993
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 20
Budget: $28,000
Phone: (831) 231-4052

Food Bank for Monterey County

Year Founded: 1990
Paid Staff: 41
Volunteers: 500
Budget: $31,016,000
Phone: (831) 758-1523

Art Abilities

Year Founded: 2022
Paid Staff: 8
Volunteers: 23
Budget: $368,000
Phone: (831) 915-4611

Big Sur Fire

Year Founded: 1974
Paid Staff: 25
Volunteers: 21
Budget: $2,200,000
Phone: (831) 667-2113

Chamber Music Monterey Bay (CMMB)

Year Founded: 1966
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 10
Budget: $335,557
Phone: (831) 625-2212

Monterey History & Art Association

Year Founded: 1931
Paid Staff: 3
Volunteers: 60
Budget: $193,432
Phone: (831) 372-2608

Gathering for Women - Monterey

Year Founded: 2014
Paid Staff: 12
Volunteers: 70
Budget: $1,774,278
Phone: (831) 241-6154

Habitat Stewardship Project

Year Founded: 1995
Paid Staff: 10
Volunteers: 850
Budget: $275,000
Phone: (831) 601-0588

Siembra Latinos Fund

Year Founded: 1945
Paid Staff: 27
Volunteers: 65
Budget: $5,566,706
Phone: (831) 375-9712

Community Homeless Solutions

Year Founded: 1978
Paid Staff: 64
Volunteers: 75
Budget: $6,209,626
Phone: (831) 384-3388

Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust

Year Founded: 2014
Paid Staff: 3
Volunteers: 22
Budget: $624,059
Phone: (831) 233-3101

Community Human Services

Year Founded: 1969
Paid Staff: 154
Volunteers: 80
Budget: $18,278,903
Phone: (831) 658-3811

Habitat for Humanity - Monterey Bay

Year Founded: 1989
Paid Staff: 22
Volunteers: 362
Budget: $3,137,624
Phone: (831) 469-4663

Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County

Year Founded: 1968
Paid Staff: 65
Volunteers: 163
Budget: $7,005,000
Phone: (831) 394-5171

Gateway Center of Monterey County

Year Founded: 1963
Paid Staff: 105
Volunteers: 30
Budget: $9,400,000
Phone: (831) 372-8002

Hijos del Sol

Year Founded: 1994
Paid Staff: 8
Volunteers: 25
Budget: $600,051
Phone: (831) 200-3915

Ventana Wilderness Alliance

Year Founded: 2000
Paid Staff: 11
Volunteers: 150
Budget: $978,540
Phone: (831) 423-3191

Del Monte Forest Conservancy

Year Founded: 1961
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 12
Budget: $531,450
Phone: (831) 373-1293

Brighter Bites, Monterey County

Year Founded: 2021
Paid Staff: 4
Volunteers: 60
Budget: $460,942
Phone: (831) 277-8020

Big Sur Fund, in Memory of Weston Call

Year Founded: 1945
Paid Staff: 27
Volunteers: 65
Budget: $5,566,706
Phone: (831) 375-9712

Junior League of Monterey County

Year Founded: 1963
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 200
Budget: $62,300
Phone: (831) 402-4705

Bay View Academy

Year Founded: 2011
Paid Staff: 57
Volunteers: 150
Budget: $7,575,700
Phone: (831) 717-4630

YWCA Monterey County

Year Founded: 1913
Paid Staff: 15
Volunteers: 1
Budget: $2,213,503
Phone: (831) 422-8602

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

Year Founded: 2017
Paid Staff: 3
Volunteers: 8
Budget: $600,000
Phone: (831) 359-7071

Special Kids Connect

Year Founded: 2007
Paid Staff: 13
Volunteers: 50
Budget: $1,300,000
Phone: (831) 372-2730

Chartwell School

Year Founded: 1983
Paid Staff: 78
Volunteers: 200
Budget: $14,540,732
Phone: (831) 394-3468

Seneca Family of Agencies

Year Founded: 1985
Paid Staff: 1507
Volunteers: 25
Budget: $15,000,000
Phone: (510) 654-4004

Sun Street Centers

Year Founded: 1968
Paid Staff: 190
Volunteers: 870
Budget: $16,883,842
Phone: (831) 753-5144

Monterey Bay Economic Partnership (MBEP)

Year Founded: 2015
Paid Staff: 8
Volunteers: 17
Budget: $1,600,000
Phone: (626) 660-5555

Friends of Seaside Parks Association (FOSPA)

Year Founded: 2014
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 100
Budget: $25,000
Phone: (831) 915-4873

Partners For Peace (P4P)

Year Founded: 1995
Paid Staff: 16
Volunteers: 87
Budget: $1,763,059
Phone: (831) 754-3888

SpectorDance

Year Founded: 1997
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 28
Budget: $91,500
Phone: (831) 601-8510

Center for Community Advocacy

Year Founded: 1988
Paid Staff: 10
Volunteers: 100
Budget: $1,600,000
Phone: (831) 753-2324

Coalition of Homeless Services Providers

Year Founded: 1994
Paid Staff: 7
Volunteers: 204
Budget: $10,301,556
Phone: (831) 883-3080

MILPA

Year Founded: 2013
Paid Staff: 22
Volunteers: 4
Budget: $2,500,000
Phone: (831) 676-3079

Marine Life Studies

Year Founded: 2006
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 221
Budget: $305,000
Phone: (831) 901-3833

Lyceum of Monterey County

Year Founded: 1960
Paid Staff: 7
Volunteers: 350
Budget: $233,000
Phone: (831) 372-6098

Soledad Community Health Care District Foundation

Year Founded: 1996
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 10
Budget: $64,179
Phone: (831) 237-0006

COPA

Year Founded: 2003
Paid Staff: 4
Volunteers: 250
Budget: $350,000
Phone: (831) 728-3210

Set Free Monterey Bay

Year Founded: 2018
Paid Staff: 8
Volunteers: 28
Budget: $671,312
Phone: (831) 204-1334

Friends of the Salinas Public Library

Year Founded: 1978
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 25
Budget: $33,251
Phone: (831) 596-0209

Door to Hope

Year Founded: 1971
Paid Staff: 69
Volunteers:
Budget: $7,696,131
Phone: (831) 758-0181

NAMI Monterey County

Year Founded: 1984
Paid Staff: 4
Volunteers: 60
Budget: $440,000
Phone: (831) 422-6264

Animal Friends Rescue Project

Year Founded: 1998
Paid Staff: 16
Volunteers: 168
Budget: $1,465,000
Phone: (831) 333-0722

Central Coast Veterans Cemetery Foundation (CCVCF)

Year Founded: 2006
Paid Staff: 3
Volunteers: 14
Budget: $122,242
Phone: (831) 218-1780

Communities for Sustainable Monterey County (CSMC)

Year Founded: 2005
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 850
Budget: $121,000
Phone: (831) 200-3533

Center for Photographic Art

Year Founded: 1988
Paid Staff: 4
Volunteers: 48
Budget: $480,000
Phone: (831) 625-5181

Big Sur Land Trust

Year Founded: 1978
Paid Staff: 30
Volunteers: 172
Budget: $8,024,964
Phone: (831) 625-5523

MEarth

Year Founded: 2008
Paid Staff: 7
Volunteers: 180
Budget: $918,467
Phone: (831) 624-1032

Carmel Dance Festival

Year Founded: 2021
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 15
Budget: $325,000
Phone: (310) 923-2766

Cancer Patients Alliance

Year Founded: 2001
Paid Staff: 8
Volunteers: 150
Budget: $1,384,290
Phone: (831) 658-0600

Western Flyer Foundation

Year Founded: 2016
Paid Staff: 7
Volunteers: 120
Budget: $2,000,000
Phone: (831) 220-8047

MPC Foundation

Year Founded: 1994
Paid Staff: 7
Volunteers: 100
Budget: $2,317,213
Phone: (831) 655-5507

Monterey State Historic Park Association

Year Founded: 1975
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 41
Budget: $64,150
Phone: (831) 649-7111

Youth Orchestra Salinas (YOSAL)

Year Founded: 2010
Paid Staff: 12
Volunteers: 35
Budget: $1,000,000
Phone: (831) 756-5335

Carmel Youth Center

Year Founded: 1949
Paid Staff: 7
Volunteers: 10
Budget: $392,926
Phone: (831) 624-3285

ALBA

Year Founded: 2001
Paid Staff: 11
Volunteers: 12
Budget: $2,420,200
Phone: (831) 758-1469

Monterey Symphony

Year Founded: 1946
Paid Staff: 6
Volunteers: 25
Budget: $2,989,249
Phone: (831) 646-8511

MAOS (Monterey Academy of Oceanographic Science)

Year Founded: 1994
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 95
Budget: $140,500
Phone: (831) 392-3801

Henry Miller Library (HML)

Year Founded: 1981
Paid Staff: 3
Volunteers: 50
Budget: $515,024
Phone: (831) 667-2574

Monterey Peninsula Voices

Year Founded: 1962
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 10
Budget: $80,000
Phone: (831) 275-0176

Ventana Wildlife Society

Year Founded: 1982
Paid Staff: 32
Volunteers: 28
Budget: $2,674,520
Phone: (831) 455-9514

Carmel Valley Community Youth Center (CVCYC)

Year Founded: 1958
Paid Staff: 18
Volunteers: 1958
Budget: $150,000
Phone: (831) 659-3983

Salinas Valley Health Foundation

Year Founded: 1980
Paid Staff: 8
Volunteers: 32
Budget: $2,387,487
Phone: (831) 759-1880

Equine Healing Collaborative

Year Founded: 2015
Paid Staff: 27
Volunteers: 76
Budget: $1,783,000
Phone: (831) 293-4492

Diversity Center

Year Founded: 1989
Paid Staff: 12
Volunteers: 100
Budget: $1,500,000
Phone: (831) 425-5422

Digital NEST

Year Founded: 2014
Paid Staff: 124
Volunteers: 50
Budget: $7,462,365
Phone: (831) 285-0484

Agricultural & Rural Life Museum

Year Founded: 1983
Paid Staff: 6
Volunteers: 40
Budget: $105,000
Phone: (831) 385-8020

Save Our Shores

Year Founded: 1980
Paid Staff: 6
Volunteers: 5000
Budget: $498,296
Phone: (831) 462-5660

South County Animal Rescue (SCAR)

Year Founded: 2017
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 45
Budget: $152,600
Phone: (831) 525-5160

Grower-Shipper Foundation

Year Founded: 2003
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 70
Budget: $193,130
Phone: (831) 422-9007

Sunset Center

Year Founded: 2003
Paid Staff: 19
Volunteers: 72
Budget: $2,855,355
Phone: (831) 620-2040

I-HELP

Year Founded: 2014
Paid Staff: 10
Volunteers: 250
Budget: $350,000
Phone: (831) 251-8663

Carmel Bach Festival

Year Founded: 1935
Paid Staff: 8
Volunteers: 132
Budget: $3,242,000
Phone: (831) 624-1521

Meals on Wheels of the Salinas Valley

Year Founded: 1972
Paid Staff: 8
Volunteers: 110
Budget: $1,600,000
Phone: (831) 758-6326

Sol Treasures

Year Founded: 2008
Paid Staff: 4
Volunteers: 43
Budget: $446,072
Phone: (831) 386-1381

Golden Oldies Cat Rescue

Year Founded: 2016
Paid Staff: 3
Volunteers: 90
Budget: $228,600
Phone: (831) 200-9232

Regeneración - Pajaro Valley Climate Action

Year Founded: 2016
Paid Staff: 9
Volunteers: 20
Budget: $900,000
Phone: (831) 288-7755

Greenfield Community Science Workshop

Year Founded: 2011
Paid Staff: 19
Volunteers: 75
Budget: $575,000
Phone: (831) 540-9830

O'Neill Sea Odyssey

Year Founded: 1996
Paid Staff: 10
Volunteers: 30
Budget: $1,168,243
Phone: (831) 475-1561

Monterey Museum of Art

Year Founded: 1959
Paid Staff: 24
Volunteers: 31
Budget: $3,054,177
Phone: (831) 372-5477

Fund for Homeless Women

Year Founded: 1945
Paid Staff: 27
Volunteers: 65
Budget: $5,566,706
Phone: (831) 375-9712

Camerata Singers

Year Founded: 1982
Paid Staff: 2
Volunteers: 12
Budget: $51,565
Phone: (831) 642-2701

Young Adults With Epilepsy Central Coast

Year Founded: 2023
Paid Staff: 10
Volunteers: 6
Budget: $126,198
Phone: (831) 444-5889

BirchBark

Year Founded: 2013
Paid Staff: 3
Volunteers: 40
Budget: $866,172
Phone: (831) 471-7255

Hartnell College Foundation

Year Founded: 1979
Paid Staff: 17
Volunteers: 225
Budget: $6,700,000
Phone: (831) 755-6810

SNIP Bus

Year Founded: 2016
Paid Staff: 10
Volunteers: 25
Budget: $2,000,000
Phone: (925) 895-8531

American Red Cross of the Central Coast

Year Founded: 1916
Paid Staff: 60
Volunteers: 344
Budget: $2,446,104
Phone: (831) 624-6921

Monterey Audubon Society

Year Founded: 1940
Paid Staff: 1
Volunteers: 100
Budget: $189,605
Phone: (760) 420-9299

Carmel Guitar Society

Year Founded: 1961
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 7
Budget: $38,000
Phone: (831) 316-3230

ARIEL Theatrical

Year Founded: 1989
Paid Staff: 12
Volunteers: 125
Budget: $623,673
Phone: (831) 775-0976

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte (PPMM)

Year Founded: 1964
Paid Staff: 33
Volunteers: 560
Budget: $7,117,761
Phone: (408) 795-3780

First Mayor's House

Year Founded: 1999
Paid Staff:
Volunteers: 20
Budget: $25,000
Phone: (831) 214-8661