· Private foundation
Frank R Howard Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $250k+1 grant · $515k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADVENTIST HEALTH HOWARD MEMORIAL (HMH) | $514,640 |
| HOWARD COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $31,099 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,002 |
| WILLITS SENIOR CENTER | $3,807 |
| WILLITS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $2,500 |
| WILLITS YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| HOWARD HOSPITAL INC | $905 |
| SEABISCUIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $600 |
| WILLITS SOBER GRAD | $500 |
| REDWOOD LIONS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| WILLITS KIDS CLUB INC | $300 |
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 (FY22–22, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against -32% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- HCHOWARD COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $153k · revenue ×22 · 82% of their budget
- WYWILLITS YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +74%
- WSWILLITS SOBER GRAD PARTY PLANNING COMMITTEE5× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +13%
Funded once
MENDOCINO COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INCone grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue +18%- HHHOWARD HOSPITAL AUXILIARYone grant, 2019 · $169k
- MAMEDSTAR AMBULANCE OF MENDOCINO COUNTY INCone grant, 2021 · $134k · revenue +10%
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 primary goal of Willits Community Services is to provide temporary assistance services to families and individuals in crisis. WCS also provides referrals to other community or regional resources and gives assistance to clients in…
Willits Daily Bread is a soup kitchen. We feed a meal to anyone in need.
To Provide a benefit to the public by providing work related training and job placement services to low income adults and youth (ages 16-24 yrs).
The organization holds a mission statement for each charter school. refer to schedule o for additional information.wecs: our mission is to equip elementary students with the academic and social skills needed to think critically, and become…
Provide sports and supervised activities that encourage sportsmanship, goodwill and friendship.
To operate a community library for information retrieval and enjoyment by the general public.
The Community Center of Mendocino's main function is to provide after school enrichment programs for grade school children. Secondary function is to provide recreation.
Mendocino Coast Clinics
Supporting family medicine programs by fostering community connections. We are educating the community on the benefits of a local family medicine residency program and raising funds to support it.
To award scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students in support of medical education.
Provide basic shelter services to the community's poor, those without food and shelter.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Mendocino County and the most unlike its peers is The Endowment for Willits Seniors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 MENDOCINO COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDSTAR AMBULANCE OF MENDOCINO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NUESTRA ALIANZA DE WILLITS ↗
- Who funds WILLITS YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLITS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WILLITS SOBER GRAD PARTY PLANNING COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESOURCE CENTERS OF MENDO CO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE ENDOWMENT FOR WILLITS SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds WILLITS KIDS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WILLITS ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEABISCUIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Arts Council of Mendocino County ↗
- Who funds WILLITS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Redwood Lions Memorial Foundation ↗
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: Community Foundation of Mendocino County · Amazonsmile 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 Frank R Howard Foundation 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.
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.
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