· Public charity
Ink People Inc
Since 1979, the ink people is a community based arts and cultural arts agency with an administrative hub in eureka and servicing the greater north coast region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $53,580 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $274,317 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $220,737 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 $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REDWOOD PLAYHOUSE | $14,000 |
| NORCAL LAO FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| DELL'ARTE INC | $8,800 |
| REDWOOD RAKS COLLECTIVE | $8,000 |
| WILLOW CREEK YOUTH PARTNERSHIP | $6,400 |
| BLACK HUMBOLDT | $5,880 |
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 (FY24–24, $61k) 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.
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.
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.
To champion the performing arts in Santa Rosa for all. To connect people with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. To embrace people from all backgrounds. To provide exceptional service to our resident companies and to…
Dandelion is situated at the crossroads of dance, theater, music, community activism, healing, and new performance forms. The company is committed to the individual and intersecting artistic visions of Kimiko Guthrie and Eric Kupers. Our…
The mission of dramaworks is to promote the enjoyment of theatre arts, facilitate childrens and community theatre programs, and utilize our venue as an educational path to reduce societal barriers and improve the lives of rural families…
theatre company
Legacy Stage grew out of the passion of local artists to create opportunities for exceptional storytelling and theatre education in the North State. Our mission is to grow and sustain professional theatre in Butte County.
Bring quality entertainment to the Occidental Area
Nava Dance Theatre uses the south Indian dance form as a medium for artistic reflection and discovery.
To produce community based musical theatre productions.
Arts and Education
To provide communities with a unique view of movement and inspire love and cultivation of dance and music.
Palenke Arts is a multicultural arts Organization whose mission is to educate, inspire and transform the community of Seaside through the arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playhouse Arts and the most unlike its peers is Willow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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.
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 NCRT INC NORTHCOAST REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CENTRO DEL PUEBLO MOVIMIENTO INDIGENA MIGRANTE ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Arts ↗
- Who funds Redwood Playhouse ↗
- Who funds NorCal Lao Foundation ↗
- Who funds DellArte Inc ↗
- Who funds Redwood Raks Collective ↗
- Who funds Willow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest ↗
- Who funds Cooperation Humboldt ↗
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: Humboldt Area Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Ink People Inc 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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