· Community foundation
Community Foundation of the North State
The foundation promotes philanthropy by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 151 grants below total $3,560,392 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,685,864 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,125,472 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $244k
- $10k–50k96 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAM CHASE FOUNDATION | $109,591 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| SISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABO | $92,500 |
| MERCY FOUNDATION NORTH | $86,189 |
| SISSON MUSEUM - MT SHASTA MUSEUM A | $78,142 |
| SISKIYOU LAND TRUST | $72,944 |
| HAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $71,084 |
| EXODUS FARMS MINISTRY | $70,526 |
| SHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $66,500 |
| EMPOWER TEHAMA | $61,500 |
| WHISKEYTOWN ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOOL CO | $56,483 |
| NORTHERN VALLEY CATHOLIC SOCIAL SER | $56,244 |
| TURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK | $55,961 |
| SHASTA COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION | $50,000 |
| THE CANBY CENTER | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
93 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
Cornell University2× · 2024–2025 · $250k · revenue +14%- MFMERCY FOUNDATION NORTH2× · 2024–2025 · $204k · revenue +26%
- EFExodus Farms Ministry2× · 2024–2025 · $119k · revenue +11% · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- RBRed Bluff Bull Sale Committee Incone grant, 2024 · $203k · revenue +9%
- CSCalifornia State Grange Foundationone grant, 2024 · $168k · 37% of their budget
- DHDIGNITY HEALTH CONNECTED LIVINGone grant, 2024 · $67k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The fire safe council-siskiyou county is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to improve wildire safety through public education and demonstration wildire fuel reduction projects.
The Siskiyou Land Conservancy is a state and federally approved non-profit organization that assists landowners who want to protect the natural values of their land, either through purchase or establishment of conservation easements.
The Mt. Shasta Community Resource Center is a community-based, non-profit 501c3 organization that offers a wide range of services to improve the health and wellbeing of the community. One of several Family/Community Resource Centers in…
The organization was formed to provide wildfire prevention and to educate the community on wilfire prevention practices as well as emegency wildfire escape plans for residents of shasta county, ca.
Providing for the health and well-being of our community by connecting people to the land through parks, native plants and habitats, community gardens, and restoration projects in Siskiyou County.
CSERC protects water, wildlife, and wild places of the Northern Yosemite region.
To promote and foster employment opportunities in the community through job training and placement.
Activities within trinity, humboldt, del norte county, siskiyou and mendocino counties and to recruit and administer financial capital for such purposes.
Shasta regional soccer association was established to operate and maintain a community soccer facility in northern california.
Protect, manage and preserve lands and wildlife having unique natural resources and cultural qualities within and near the foothills of the sierra nevada range.
The economic development corporation of shasta county is a 501(c)(3)public benefit corporation providing programs to create primary industry employment, resulting in higher wages and added wealth for residents of shasta county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern California and the most unlike its peers is Safe Harbor Broadcasting. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
144 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. 144 of the 200 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION NORTH ↗
- Who funds Red Bluff Bull Sale Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds California State Grange Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SISKIYOU LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Mt Shasta Museum Association DBA Sisson Museum ↗
- Who funds SHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Exodus Farms Ministry ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER TEHAMA ↗
- Who funds Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters ↗
- Who funds SAM CHASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK ↗
- Who funds Siskiyou Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SHASTA COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WHISKEYTOWN ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOOL (WES) COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds SISKIYOU OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Siskiyou Food Assistance Corporation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SHASTA ↗
- Who funds SPAY AND NEUTER INTERMOUNTAIN PETS AND PET PLACEMENT ↗
- Who funds RESCUE RANCH ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VALLEY CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SHASTA TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAITHWORKS COMMUNITY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY HEALTH CONNECTED LIVING ↗
- Who funds TEHAMA CONSERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SHASTA WOMEN'S REFUGE INC DBA ONE SAFE PLACE ↗
- Who funds SHASTA CHRISTIAN YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SISKIYOU HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Great Northern Services ↗
- Who funds MAYERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pathways to Housing ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA EDUCATIONAL TV ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The McConnell Foundation · Dignity Health · The Ford Family Foundation · United Way of Northern California · Ralphs Prather Ranch Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Spirit of Kindness Foundation · California Fire Foundation · Humboldt Area Foundation · The Maurice & Marianne Johannessen Found · Dutch Bros Foundation · North Valley Community 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 Community Foundation of the North State 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.
- Living Opportunities Inc — 90% of income from government
- United Community Action Network — 82% of income from government
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.