· Private foundation
Luckens-McAdams Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PBS-KEET Public Television | $5,511 |
| Blue Lake Museum Society | $1,750 |
| Northern Humboldt Unified HS Distri | $1,600 |
| Food for People Inc | $1,500 |
| Cal Forest Conservation Foundation | $1,000 |
| McAdams Cemetery Assoc | $1,000 |
| Humboldt Co Animal Shelter | $600 |
| Northcoast Regional Land Trust | $400 |
| PBS-KEET Public Television | $200 |
| Humboldt Senior Resource Center | $200 |
| Humboldt Community Breast Health Pr | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your 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 +109% since the first grant, against +66% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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
- FFFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +83%
- NRNORTHCOAST REGIONAL LAND TRUST8× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +349%
- BABREAST AND GYN HEALTH PROJECT9× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- RMREDWOOD MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +54%
- NHNorthern Humboldt Univ HS Districtone grant, 2021 · $2k
- HPHUMBOLDT PERMACULTURE GUILDone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…
Activities within trinity, humboldt, del norte county, siskiyou and mendocino counties and to recruit and administer financial capital for such purposes.
The mission of this organization is to acquire, protect, restore and manage forestlands and other resources in the redwood region for the long-term benefit of the communities located there.
The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…
CSERC protects water, wildlife, and wild places of the Northern Yosemite region.
Southern Humboldt Community Park's mission is to own, operate and maintain the park land & buildings for the benefit of the southern Humboldt community & the general public.
Trees foundation mission is to restore the ecological integrity of california's north coast by empowering & assisting regional community based efforts that promote healthy land stewardship.
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 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 mission is to bring resources to the coastal hills community to create a healthier and safer forest where all residents flourish.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Eel River Valley Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 28 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 FOREST LANDOWNERS OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHCOAST REGIONAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BREAST AND GYN HEALTH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Orick Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds EEL RIVER VALLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Humboldt Senior Resource Center ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREST 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: Humboldt Area Foundation · Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation · Coast Central Credit Union · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Luckens-McAdams 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.