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Arcata Economic Development Corporation

To promote economic development in the north coast region of california by providing business lending and technical assistance services, community economic development assistance, and microloan business assistance & training.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$2.3M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$437,898
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,640,256
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$17M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Arcata Economic Development Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$2.3M0%
FY20243$2.2M33%
FY20232$203k100%
FY20211$48k0%
FY20201$31kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.6MCommunity Improvement$2.2M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation$2,509,54933%
North Coast Opportunities Inc$1,762,41034%
True North Organizing Network$413,4682n/a
Redwoods Ccd$79,5852n/a

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Humboldt Area FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Humboldt Area Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Arcata Economic Development Corporation?

Find your warmest path to Arcata Economic Development Corporation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Arcata Economic Development Corporation

How much does Arcata Economic Development Corporation give?
Arcata Economic Development Corporation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $2,275,380, out of $3,002,790 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Arcata Economic Development Corporation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Community Improvement (46%).
Who are Arcata Economic Development Corporation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation ($2.5M), North Coast Opportunities Inc ($1.8M), True North Organizing Network ($413k).
Does Arcata Economic Development Corporation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Arcata Economic Development Corporation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Humboldt Area Foundation.
Where is Arcata Economic Development Corporation based?
Arcata Economic Development Corporation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports $9.9M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2025, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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