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Coast Central Credit Union

COAST CENTRAL CREDIT UNION's mission is to be the primary financial institution for members by providing high quality financial services at competitively favorable rates consistent with maintaining financial strength.

$350k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$285kHousing & Shelter$129kFood & Nutrition$121kRecreation & Sports$120kHuman Services$109kYouth Development$94kAnimals$76kEnvironment$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $185,985 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $350,471 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $164,486 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
$10,335
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DREAMQUEST WILLOW CREEK YOUTH PARTNERSHIP$45,000
FOOD FOR PEOPLE$25,000
TRINITY ALPS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISCTRICT$21,000
AFFORDABLE HOMELESS HOUSING ALTERNATIVES$15,000
ALDERPOINT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT$15,000
DEL NORTE FAIRGROUNDS$12,000
HUMBOLDT BRIDGES TO SUCCESS$10,335
NATION'S FINEST$10,000
WILLOW CREEK FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT$8,050
HEALTHSPORT$6,880
MATTOLE VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER$6,500
MCKINLEYVILLE YOUTH FOOTBALL & CHEER$6,000
NORTH COAST RAPE CRISIS TEAM$5,220
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF THE REDWOODS: $25k → 17%HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT: $15k → 18%HUMBOLDT COMMUNITY ACCESS AND RESOURCE CENTER: $7k → 18%ADULT DAY HEALTH OF MAD RIVER: $8k → 18%MATTOLE VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER: $7k → 18%FORTUNA SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 18%FORTUNA SENIOR SERVICES: $8k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Coast Central Credit Union’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Coast Central Credit Unionlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.4% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$349k · 13 repeat orgs$838k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
69

Total granted

$349k
$713k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+10%

Still filing today

62%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WC
    Willow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest
    3× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +490%
  • IP
    INK PEOPLE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +76%
  • NC
    NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK
    2× · 2020–2022 · $22k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • AH
    ARCATA HOUSE PARTNERSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +850%
  • CS
    California State Grange Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · 28% of their budget
  • FR
    FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF THE REDWOODSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +78%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Humboldt County Animal Shelter Inc

The Organization's mission is to provide temporary sanctuary and shelter for unwanted, lost and neglected animals, to promote the humane care and treatment of dogs and cats through education, and to actively advocate pet popluation control.

Animals
2
Humboldt County Historical Association
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3
Redwood Coast Humane Society

Prevention of pet abuse, neglect, and over-population by providing temporary and permanent homes for abandoned cats and dogs and providing neutering and spaying services for these animals.

Animals
4
Northern California Sled Dog Rescue

Northern California Sled Dog Rescue (NORSLED) is an all volunteer non-profit group dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, fostering and finding new homes for unwanted, abused and abandoned siberian huskies, alaskan malamutes, samoyeds and…

Animals
5
Timber Cove Volunteer Fire Department dba Tcv Firefighters Association

Fire suppression, rescue and emergency medical first responders in this remote, rural coastal area. sonoma county service area #25.

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6
Northwest California Resource Conservation & Development Council

Activities within trinity, humboldt, del norte county, siskiyou and mendocino counties and to recruit and administer financial capital for such purposes.

Community Improvement
7
Amador Fire Safe Council

Protect the people of amador county and their property from the effects of catastrophic fires through education, cooperation, innovation and action

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Oak to Timberline Fire Safe Council

Promote fire safety by providing information, education, support incentives and projects that encourage fire safety in a service area in eastern Fresno and Tulare counties.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
El Dorado County Humane Society

Care for shelter animals, provide public with free spay/neuter services, educational outreach.

Animals
10
Ramona Volunteer Fire Department
Public Safety & Disaster
11
Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center Inc

CSERC protects water, wildlife, and wild places of the Northern Yosemite region.

Unclassified
12
Redwood County Historical Society

Historical preservation

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ink People Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Union School Pto. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Charitable Founda…Humboldt County Community O…Community Theater & Perform…Community Service Organizat…Disability & Vulnerable Pop…Watershed & Ecosystem Resto…Local Community Organizatio…Rural Northern California C…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%7%<5yr11%13%5–10yr17%18%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr17%24%35–55yr19%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr11%13%5–10yr17%17%10–20yr18%37%20–35yr17%21%35–55yr19%7%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/92
the rest of the field
10%
88/857

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 93 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/53
Grantees still filing
28/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COUNTY OF DEL NORTE — $27,000 · OtherORLEANS VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT — $26,500 · OtherDEL NORTE SHERIFFS SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM — $25,001 · OtherINK PEOPLE INC — $25,000 · OtherCalifornia State Grange Foundation — $25,000 · Other+61 more — $605,846 · Other+61 moreAFFORDABLE HOMELESS HOUSING ALTERNATIVES INC — $44,468 · Housing & ShelterAFFORDABL…EUREKA RESCUE MISSION — $33,429 · Housing & ShelterEUREKA RE…ARCATA HOUSE PARTNERSHIP — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterARCATA HO…FORTUNA SENIOR SERVICES INC — $28,000 · Human ServicesFORTUNA S…FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF THE REDWOODS — $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RE…HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE O…2-1-1 Humboldt Information and Resource Center — $12,250 · Human Services2-1-1 Hum…ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE OF MAD RIVER — $8,000 · Human ServicesADULT DAY…HUMBOLDT COMMUNITY ACCESS AND RESOURCE CENTER — $6,570 · Human ServicesHUMBOLDT …MATTOLE VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER — $6,500 · Human ServicesMATTOLE V…Willow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest — $62,715 · Youth DevelopmentWILD SOULS RANCH — $10,200 · Youth DevelopmentBig Brothers Big Sisters of the North Coast Inc — $5,309 · Youth DevelopmentArcata Vol Firefighters Assn Inc — $12,650 · Public Safety & DisasterBriceland Volunteer Fire Department — $12,500 · Public Safety & DisasterSOUTHERN TRINITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $11,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSC VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $8,129 · Public Safety & DisasterWillow Creek Volunteer Fire Department — $8,050 · Public Safety & DisasterWillow Creek Fire Safe Council — $6,835 · Public Safety & DisasterCompanion Animal Foundation — $24,600 · AnimalsSEQUOIA HUMANE SOCIETY — $20,633 · AnimalsBird Ally X — $10,833 · AnimalsBLESS THE BEASTS OF HUMBOLDT CO — $2,505 · AnimalsFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionNORTH COAST GROWERS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Food & NutritionTRINITY FOOD OUTREACH INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHCOAST REGIONAL LAND TRUST — $8,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$734,347Housing & Shelter$102,897Human Services$101,320Youth Development$78,224Public Safety & Disaster$59,164Animals$58,571Food & Nutrition$53,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWillow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest — $62,715 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAFFORDABLE HOMELESS HOUSING ALTERNATIVES INC — $44,468 over 3y, 22% of budgetEUREKA RESCUE MISSION — $33,429 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFORTUNA SENIOR SERVICES INC — $28,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetARCATA HOUSE PARTNERSHIP — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCalifornia State Grange Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF THE REDWOODS — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetINK PEOPLE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCompanion Animal Foundation — $24,600 over 1y, 21% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK — $22,475 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEQUOIA HUMANE SOCIETY — $20,633 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $15,587 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans of Forgein Wars Post 9561 — $14,170 over 1y, 23% of budgetTRINITY COUNTY LIFE SUPPORT — $13,989 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHumboldt Senior Resource Center — $12,729 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArcata Vol Firefighters Assn Inc — $12,650 over 1y, 11% of budgetBriceland Volunteer Fire Department — $12,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budget2-1-1 Humboldt Information and Resource Center — $12,250 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHumboldt Youth Soccer League Inc — $12,200 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBird Ally X — $10,833 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetPACIFIC UNION SCHOOL PTO — $10,427 over 1y, 43% of budgetWILD SOULS RANCH — $10,200 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetREDWOOD PARKS CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATION'S FINEST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COAST GROWERS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPACIFIC COAST FISH WILDLIFE & WETLANDS RESTORATION ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCooperation Humboldt — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHumboldt Skatepark Collective — $9,330 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE WATERSHED RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER — $8,476 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSC VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $8,129 over 1y, 22% of budgetNORTHCOAST REGIONAL LAND TRUST — $8,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetADULT DAY HEALTH CARE OF MAD RIVER — $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFORTUNA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $7,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetWillow Creek Fire Safe Council — $6,835 over 1y, 11% of budgetMATTOLE VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER — $6,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetREDWOOD COAST MOUNTAIN BIKE ASS0CIATION — $6,418 over 1y, 14% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the North Coast Inc — $5,309 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNorth Coast Rape Crisis Team — $5,220 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUMBOLDT LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGreater Eureka Chamber of Commerce — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLittle League Baseball Inc 4052601 Redwood Empire LL — $3,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Humboldt Area Foundat…Christine & Jalmer Be…Humboldt Health Found…Patricia D & William …Andree Wagner Peace T…St Joseph Hospital of…The Schmidbauer Famil…Sisters of St Joseph …California Fire Found…The Bob and Jennie Ca…The PG&E Corporation …The Mel and Grace McL…
Humboldt Area FoundationCA106.1× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Humboldt Area Foundation · Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation · Humboldt Health Foundation · Patricia D & William B Smullin Foundation · Andree Wagner Peace Trust UTD 121289 · St Joseph Hospital of Eureka · The Schmidbauer Family Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · California Fire Foundation · The Bob and Jennie Canevari Foundation Inc · The PG&E Corporation Foundation · The Mel and Grace McLean Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Coast Central Credit Union funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Coast Central Credit Union?

    Find your warmest path to Coast Central Credit Union 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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