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MONTEREY COUNTY BUSINESS COUNCIL

EIN 77-0417425 SALINAS, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,987,247
Expenses 2024
$1,514,410

Program services were 89.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
2000
Street
123 CAPITOL ST STE B

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP TO HELP PEOPLE FROM BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT, EDUCATION AND THE COMMUNITY WORK TOGETHER ON COUNTYWIDE ISSUES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

AN ALLIANCE OF BUSINESS EXECUTIVES AND PROFESSIONALS PROVIDING COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP TO HELP PEOPLE FROM BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT, EDUCATION AND THE THE COMMUNITY WORKING TOGETHER ON COUNTYWIDE ISSUES

  • TO PROVIDE COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP TO HELP PEOPLE FROM BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT, EDUCATION AND THE COMMUNITY WORK TOGETHER ON COUNTYWIDE ISSUES. At MCBC, we believe that by working together, we can create a thriving business environment that benefits everyone in the community. The Building Business Back website serves as an information hub to help business owners find grants, loans, workshops and other resources. We are collaborating with numerous other local business support organizations and offer services in English and Spanish. The BBB program serves all businesses in Monterey County, with an emphasis on those operating in unincorporated areas as well as those owned by minorities, women and/or LGBTQ+.Building Business Back is a program of the County of Monterey, operated in partnership with the Monterey County Business Council. Building Business Back will operate from 2022 through 2024, with funding from the US Governments American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

    Expenses $1,380,291 · Revenue $1,713,657

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Paul Farmer

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $135,621
    From this org
    $135,621
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Luis Alvarez

    Secretary/Tres

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Chris Steinbruner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Peter Scudder

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Amy Ivey

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Megan Hunter

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,987,247
    Expenses
    $1,514,410
    Contributions
    $1,919,943
    Grants paid
    $163,020
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,967,312
    Expenses
    $1,206,674
    Contributions
    $1,963,505
    Grants paid
    $222,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,305,887
    Expenses
    $1,091,764
    Contributions
    $1,296,605
    Grants paid
    $156,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $515,668
    Expenses
    $461,875
    Assets (EOY)
    $76,616
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $477,815
    Expenses
    $506,397
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,332
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $585,682
    Expenses
    $580,087
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,103

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • Salinas United Business Assoc

    $88,000

    2024 Collaboration on covid response

  • Salinas United Business Assoc

    $83,500

    2023 Collaboration on covid response

  • California Coastal RDC

    $75,000

    2022 Collaberation on covid response

  • Cal Coastal SBDC

    $75,000

    2023 Collaboration on covid response

  • Salinas United Business Assoc

    $26,000

    2022 Collaberation on covid response

  • Monterey Peninsula Chamber

    $22,500

    2024 Collaboration on covid response

  • Monterey Bay DARTCC Mkg Team

    $17,500

    2023 Collaboration on covid response

  • UC Monterey Bay

    $12,520

    2024 Collaboration on covid response

  • Digital Nest Inc

    $10,000

    2022 Collaberation on covid response

  • Monterey Peninsula Chamber

    $10,000

    2022 Collaberation on covid response

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.