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Community Foundation of the North State

The foundation promotes philanthropy by connecting people who care with causes that matter.

$4.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
151
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$1.1MEducation$1.1MEnvironment$738kArts & Culture$706kRecreation & Sports$684kHealth$542kReligion$498kAnimals$413kOther$0
02FY2025 · 151 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 151 grants below total $3,560,392, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,685,864 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,125,472 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $244k
  • $10k–50k96 grants · $2.0M
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.3M
$17,137
Median grant
17
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WILLOW CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DIST$50,000
FRIENDS OF KATAHDIN WOODS AND WATER$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HELPING HEARTS & HANDS: $16k → 13%UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $10k → 17%PARAGON SERVICE DOGS: $7k → 9%MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $19k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 9%YMCA CAMP OF MAINE: $10k → 12%MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $16k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WEST: $40k → 9%TRI COUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK: $25k → 14%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WEST: $28k → 9%TRI COUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK: $21k → 14%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $16k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $10k → 9%TRI COUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK: $15k → 14%TRI COUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK: $10k → 14%TRI COUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK: $8k → 14%TRI COUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK: $7k → 14%MAYERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $28k → 14%MAYERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $23k → 14%MAYERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%DIGNITY HEALTH CONNECTED LIVING: $67k → 14%MT SHASTA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTE: $9k → 16%SHASTA INDIAN NATION: $8k → 14%HAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 16%HAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 16%SISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABO: $93k → 16%SISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABO: $88k → 16%SHASTA FAMILY YMCA: $32k → 14%SHASTA FAMILY YMCA: $26k → 14%SISKIYOU FAMILY YMCA: $16k → 16%SISKIYOU FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 16%SISKIYOU FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 16%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING: $18k → 14%SISKIYOU DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & CRISIS: $8k → 16%SISKIYOU DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & CRISIS: $7k → 16%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING: $13k → 14%SHASTA FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 14%FAMILY & COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $143k → 16%SISKIYOU FOOD ASSISTANCE CORPORATIO: $30k → 16%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING: $10k → 14%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING: $10k → 14%SISKIYOU FOOD ASSISTANCE CORPORATIO: $20k → 16%SHASTA FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 14%SISKIYOU FOOD ASSISTANCE CORPORATIO: $14k → 16%SISKIYOU FOOD ASSISTANCE CORPORATIO: $10k → 16%SISKIYOU FOOD ASSISTANCE CORPORATIO: $9k → 16%SHASTA FAMILY YMCA: $7k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
ID
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NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
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CO
KY
MD
TN
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 93 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
49

Total granted

$32M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

88%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Cornell University
    2× · 2024–2025 · $250k · revenue +14%
  • MF
    MERCY FOUNDATION NORTH
    2× · 2024–2025 · $204k · revenue +26%
  • EF
    Exodus Farms Ministry
    2× · 2024–2025 · $119k · revenue +11% · 44% of their budget

Funded once

  • RB
    Red Bluff Bull Sale Committee Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $203k · revenue +9%
  • CS
    California State Grange Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $168k · 37% of their budget
  • DH
    DIGNITY HEALTH CONNECTED LIVING
    one grant, 2024 · $67k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fire Safe Council of Siskiyou County

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Siskiyou Land Conservancy

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.

Environment
3
Mt Shasta Community Resource Center

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…

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4
Shasta County Fire Safe Council

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Siskiyou Gardens Parks and Greenways Association

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.

Environment
6
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
7
Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center Inc

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

Unclassified
8
Shasta County Private Industry Council Inc

To promote and foster employment opportunities in the community through job training and placement.

Employment
9
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
10
Sierra Foothill Conservancy

Protect, manage and preserve lands and wildlife having unique natural resources and cultural qualities within and near the foothills of the sierra nevada range.

Environment
11
Shasta Regional Soccer Association

Shasta regional soccer association was established to operate and maintain a community soccer facility in northern california.

Recreation & Sports
12
Economic Development Corp of Shasta Co

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern California; 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.
04the grantee network

145 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 145 of the 200 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
144/145
Grantees still filing
62/145
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

See detailed list attached: $27,004,492 · OtherSee detailed list attached+134 more: $4,421,459 · Other+134 moreSISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE: $338,886 · Human ServicesSHASTA COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $84,840 · Human ServicesTRI COUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK: $84,666 · Human ServicesSiskiyou Food Assistance Corporation: $82,569 · Human ServicesHAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $67,602 · Human ServicesDIGNITY HEALTH CONNECTED LIVING: $66,715 · Human ServicesSHASTA WOMEN'S REFUGE INC DBA ONE SAFE PLACE: $63,716 · Human ServicesMAYERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $57,428 · Human ServicesPathways to Housing: $56,814 · Human ServicesGOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION: $52,153 · Human ServicesSISKIYOU FAMILY YMCA INC: $46,127 · Human Services+15 more: $236,238 · Human ServicesCornell University: $250,000 · EducationSHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $126,500 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SHASTA: $82,438 · EducationRotary Club of Mount Shasta Foundation: $40,030 · EducationKENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BIBLE COLLEGE INC: $25,000 · EducationENTERPRISE HIGH SCH MUSIC BOOSTER: $21,350 · Education+3 more: $40,173 · EducationFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters: $110,000 · Arts & CultureTURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK: $93,996 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN CALIFORNIA EDUCATIONAL TV ASSOCIATION INC: $53,647 · Arts & CultureHAPPY CAMP LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureAXIOM REPERTORY THEATRE: $35,000 · Arts & CultureSHASTA LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $30,001 · Arts & CultureVoice For Christ Ministries Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSiskiyou Arts Museum: $23,157 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,549 · Arts & CultureHAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY: $106,340 · AnimalsSPAY AND NEUTER INTERMOUNTAIN PETS AND PET PLACEMENT: $76,056 · AnimalsRESCUE RANCH: $71,594 · AnimalsSISKIYOU HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $58,899 · AnimalsANOTHER CHANCE ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE INC: $17,580 · AnimalsWOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL: $12,990 · AnimalsExodus Farms Ministry: $118,782 · Youth DevelopmentTiny Mighty and Strong Corporation: $46,518 · Youth DevelopmentASCEND WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE: $29,500 · Youth DevelopmentKIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER International: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Incorporated of Northern Sacramento Valley: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $12,990 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S LEGACY CENTER: $9,777 · Youth DevelopmentWHISKEYTOWN ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOOL (WES) COMMUNITY: $83,525 · EnvironmentTEHAMA CONSERVATION FUND: $66,375 · EnvironmentSHASTA LAND TRUST: $45,575 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $18,053 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE WESTERN SHASTA RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $11,913 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $5,161 · Environment
Other$31,425,951Human Services$1,307,754Education$585,491Arts & Culture$421,350Animals$343,459Youth Development$262,567Environment$240,602

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE: $338,886 over 2y, 16% of budgetCornell University: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION NORTH: $203,669 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetRed Bluff Bull Sale Committee Inc: $203,309 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCalifornia State Grange Foundation: $167,516 over 1y, 37% of budgetTHE SISKIYOU LAND TRUST: $153,359 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetMt Shasta Museum Association DBA Sisson Museum: $152,999 over 2y, 34% of budgetSHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $126,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetExodus Farms Ministry: $118,782 over 2y, 44% of budgetEMPOWER TEHAMA: $111,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters: $110,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY: $106,340 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK: $93,996 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSiskiyou Community Food Bank: $85,104 over 2y, 19% of budgetSHASTA COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $84,840 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTRI COUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK: $84,666 over 2y, 14% of budgetWHISKEYTOWN ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOOL (WES) COMMUNITY: $83,525 over 2y, 20% of budgetSISKIYOU OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE: $82,797 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetSiskiyou Food Assistance Corporation: $82,569 over 2y, 18% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SHASTA: $82,438 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetSPAY AND NEUTER INTERMOUNTAIN PETS AND PET PLACEMENT: $76,056 over 2y, 30% of budgetRESCUE RANCH: $71,594 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetNORTHERN VALLEY CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $71,328 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNT SHASTA TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC: $71,290 over 2y, 18% of budgetFAITHWORKS COMMUNITY COALITION INC: $70,600 over 2y, 11% of budgetHAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $67,602 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH CONNECTED LIVING: $66,715 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEHAMA CONSERVATION FUND: $66,375 over 2y, 46% of budgetSHASTA WOMEN'S REFUGE INC DBA ONE SAFE PLACE: $63,716 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSHASTA CHRISTIAN YOUTH INC: $61,719 over 2y, 10% of budgetSISKIYOU HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $58,899 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetGreat Northern Services: $58,360 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMAYERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $57,428 over 2y, 12% of budgetPathways to Housing: $56,814 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA EDUCATIONAL TV ASSOCIATION INC: $53,647 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION: $53,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION: $52,153 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER: $50,879 over 2y, 21% of budgetLASSEN PARK FOUNDATION: $50,625 over 2y, 20% of budgetYouth Empowerment Siskiyou: $47,528 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTiny Mighty and Strong Corporation: $46,518 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSISKIYOU FAMILY YMCA INC: $46,127 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSHASTA LAND TRUST: $45,575 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE: $43,649 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRotary Club of Mount Shasta Foundation: $40,030 over 2y, 20% of budgetSiskiyou County Job Council: $39,750 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBONNER COUNTY HOMELESS TASK FORCE: $35,320 over 2y, 7.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The McConnell Foundat…Dignity HealthThe Ford Family Found…United Way of Norther…Ralphs Prather Ranch …California Foundation…Spirit of Kindness Fo…California Fire Found…Humboldt Area Foundat…The Maurice & Mariann…Dutch Bros FoundationNorth Valley Communit…
The McConnell FoundationCA97.9× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of the North State funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of the North State. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 90%
  • Living Opportunities Inc: 90% of income from government
  • United Community Action Network: 82% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 200 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.

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