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Humboldt Health Foundation

To support the humboldt area foundation, a community foundation, by improving the health and well-being of the residents and communities of humboldt county, and of other communities in northern california while also improving services to the people of humboldt county.

$332k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$101k
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 FY2018–2025.

Philanthropy$501kHealth$378kArts & Culture$138kFood & Nutrition$99kHuman Services$99kEmployment$35kHousing & Shelter$27kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $238,685 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $331,781 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $93,096 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 $10k9 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION$101,370
INK PEOPLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS$27,500
CENTRO DEL PUEBLO MOVIMIENTO INDIGENA MIGRANTE$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$15,000
HEALY SENIOR CENTER$12,000
NORTH COAST HEALTH IMPROVEMENT AND INFORMATION NETWORK$10,000
OPENART$8,000
HUMBOLDT SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER-ADULT DAY HEALTH SERVICES$6,500
FOOD FOR PEOPLE$6,500
TWO FEATHERS NATIVE AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES$6,300
REDWOOD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$6,300
HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT$6,300
SORREL LEAF HEALING CENTER$6,300
NORTH COAST RAPE CRISIS TEAM$6,300
UNITED INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES$5,315
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 (FY19–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 8%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $6k → 10%HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT: $6k → 18%REDWOOD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $8k → 18%REDWOOD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $7k → 18%REDWOOD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $6k → 18%BEGINNINGS INCORPORATED: $9k → 18%NATURE RIGHTS COUNCIL: $6k → 18%TWO FEATHERS NATIVE AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 18%MATTOLE VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 18%MATTOLE VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER: $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.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$640k · 23 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
22

Total granted

$640k
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-3%

Still filing today

91%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsHousing & ShelterYouth 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

  • IP
    INK PEOPLE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $97k · revenue +133%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +43%
  • OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $44k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $16k
  • RT
    Rios to Riversgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +91%
  • HB
    HC BLACK MUSIC AND ARTS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k

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 Domestic Violence Services

The mission of Humboldt Domestic Violence Services is to break the cycle of Intimate Partner Violence through services, education, and advocacy.

Human Services
2
Humboldt County Historical Association
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3
Big Sur Health Center Inc

The Big Sur Health Center exists to serve the health and wellness needs of the Big Sur community by providing quality healthcare through traditional and complementary approaches that are culturally sensitive and center on patient needs.

—
4
Access Humboldt

To provide support support and community based media programs to the public. Access Humboldt establishes and operates a community media access center and serves access viewers with programming reflecting the activities, concerns, diversity…

Arts & Culture
5
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
6
Heart of the Redwoods Community Hospice

Providing physical, emotional, practical and spiritual support for people and families who are dealing with life-threatening illness, the dying process, death and or bereavement of a loved one.

Human Services
7
Northern California Center for Well-Being

To improve the health and well-being of our community through evidence-based health practices and innovative programs that advance health equity for all.

Health
8
Life Plan Humboldt

To plan build and support the first resident led and not-for-profit community for active seniors in Humboldt County. Humboldt seniors will have secure accessible homes with support if needed in a community that encourages a healthy…

Housing & Shelter
9
Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition

Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition is a 501c3 Non-Profit and Physician Lead Harm Reduction Program. Our program provides life saving Naloxone, Overdose Reversal Training, Safe Use Supplies, Syringe Disposal, HIV/HCV Testing, Drug…

Education
10
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
11
Chico Feminist Womens Health Center dba Womens Health Specialists

Womens Health Specialists vision is a world where women control their own bodies,reproduction, and sexuality. The center is dedicated to providing women-controlledhealth care for all women.

Health
12
Manzanita Services Inc

Business closed waiting for dissolution from California

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Redwood Community Action Agency and the most unlike its peers is The Mel and Grace McLean Foundation. 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 backsteadyHumboldt County Community O…Community Arts & Culture Or…Animal Rescue and WelfareLocal Community Organizatio…Disability & Community Supp…Rural North Coast Health Se…Charter and Alternative Sch…Watershed & Ecosystem Resto…
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 31 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr10%13%5–10yr17%21%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr16%31%35–55yr20%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr10%6%5–10yr17%7%10–20yr18%54%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr20%8%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
2/50
the rest of the field
10%
75/755

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
26/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION — $495,777 · PhilanthropyHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION+2 more — $10,531 · PhilanthropyHealy Senior Center of Southern Humboldt Inc — $39,500 · OtherHealy Senior Center of Sout…FORTUNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT — $23,604 · OtherFORTUNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL D…Native American Pathways — $19,630 · OtherNative American PathwaysIndividual grant recipient — $15,716 · OtherHumboldt Senior Resource Center — $15,041 · OtherHC BLACK MUSIC AND ARTS ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · OtherFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC — $34,230 · OtherFOOD FOR PEOPLE INCMCKINLEYVILLE COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE — $32,170 · OtherMCKINLEYVILLE COMMUNITY COL…Northcoast Childrens Services Inc — $18,369 · OtherNorthcoast Childrens Servic…Rios to Rivers — $15,000 · OtherREDWOOD TEEN CHALLENGE — $13,793 · Other+11 more — $93,743 · Other+11 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $45,992 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHO…OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $43,746 · HealthOPEN DOOR COMMUN…REDWOODS RURAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $36,536 · HealthREDWOODS RURAL H…Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $24,630 · HealthPlanned Parentho…United Indian Health Services Inc — $15,300 · HealthUnited Indian He…BREAST AND GYN HEALTH PROJECT — $12,171 · HealthBREAST AND GYN H…NORTH COAST HEALTH IMPROVEMENT AND INFORMATION NETWORK INC — $10,000 · HealthSOUTHERN HUMBOLDT COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Health+1 more — $6,300 · HealthSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $29,800 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GE…Redwood Community Action Agency — $20,723 · Human ServicesRedwood Co…2-1-1 Humboldt Information and Resource Center — $16,403 · Human Services2-1-1 Humb…MATTOLE VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER — $16,000 · Human ServicesMATTOLE VA…CENTRO DEL PUEBLO MOVIMIENTO INDIGENA MIGRANTE — $15,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO DEL…Beginnings Incorporated — $8,638 · Human ServicesBeginnings…NATURE RIGHTS COUNCIL — $6,382 · Human ServicesTWO FEATHERS-NAFS — $6,300 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC — $6,300 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $6,000 · Human ServicesINK PEOPLE INC — $96,760 · Arts & CultureINK PEOPL…Redwood Playhouse — $8,000 · Arts & CultureRedwood P…OPENART — $8,000 · Arts & CultureOPENARTQueer Humboldt — $27,000 · Civil RightsHUMBOLDT AREA CENTER FOR HARM REDUCTION — $20,500 · Civil RightsTri-County Independent Living Inc — $9,490 · Civil RightsBUILDING LIVES BY BUILDING STRUCTURE — $24,645 · Housing & ShelterARCATA HOUSE PARTNERSHIP — $13,900 · Housing & ShelterAFFORDABLE HOMELESS HOUSING ALTERNATIVES INC — $7,500 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$506,308Other$335,796Health$202,675Human Services$131,546Arts & Culture$112,760Civil Rights$56,990Housing & Shelter$46,045

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION — $495,777 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetINK PEOPLE INC — $96,760 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $45,992 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $43,746 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHealy Senior Center of Southern Humboldt Inc — $39,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetREDWOODS RURAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $36,536 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC — $34,230 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMCKINLEYVILLE COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE — $32,170 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $29,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetQueer Humboldt — $27,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $24,630 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRedwood Community Action Agency — $20,723 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHUMBOLDT AREA CENTER FOR HARM REDUCTION — $20,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetNorthcoast Childrens Services Inc — $18,369 over 3y, 0.1% of budget2-1-1 Humboldt Information and Resource Center — $16,403 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMATTOLE VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER — $16,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetUnited Indian Health Services Inc — $15,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumboldt Senior Resource Center — $15,041 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRios to Rivers — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTRO DEL PUEBLO MOVIMIENTO INDIGENA MIGRANTE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetARCATA HOUSE PARTNERSHIP — $13,900 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetREDWOOD TEEN CHALLENGE — $13,793 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBREAST AND GYN HEALTH PROJECT — $12,171 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCooperation Humboldt — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH COAST HEALTH IMPROVEMENT AND INFORMATION NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the North Coast Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTri-County Independent Living Inc — $9,490 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWILD SOULS RANCH — $8,390 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRedwood Playhouse — $8,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE-GROUP — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN HUMBOLDT COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAFFORDABLE HOMELESS HOUSING ALTERNATIVES INC — $7,500 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTWO FEATHERS-NAFS — $6,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC — $6,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSORREL LEAF HEALING CENTER INC — $6,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridgeville Community Center — $5,300 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Mel and Grace McLean Foundation — $5,231 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Patricia D & William …Christine & Jalmer Be…Coast Central Credit …Sisters of St Joseph …St Joseph Hospital of…The California Wellne…Seventh Generation Fu…Andree Wagner Peace T…St Joseph Health Syst…The California Endowm…The Schmidbauer Famil…
Humboldt Area FoundationCA84.3× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Humboldt Area Foundation · Patricia D & William B Smullin Foundation · Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation · Coast Central Credit Union · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · St Joseph Hospital of Eureka · The California Wellness Foundation · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Andree Wagner Peace Trust UTD 121289 · St Joseph Health System Foundation · The California Endowment · The Schmidbauer Family 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 Humboldt Health 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report 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 Humboldt Health Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Humboldt Health Foundation 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 53 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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