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Luckens-McAdams Foundation at a glance

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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.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$15kEnvironment$14kArts & Culture$12kEmployment$8kFood & Nutrition$7kMembership Benefit$5kAnimals$3kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$53k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
McAdams Cemetery Assoc$1,000
Cal Forest Conservation Foundation$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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Cal Forest Conservation Foundation: $1k → 12%Community Foundation of Mendocino C: $500 → 18%NCCWIT: $1k → 18%North Valley Community Foundation: $500 → 18%Boy Scouts of America: $400 → 14%McAdams Cemetery Assoc: $1k → 20%Cal Forest Conservation Foundation: $500 → 12%NCCWIT: $516 → 18%McAdams Cemetery Assoc: $500 → 20%Forest Landowners of California: $5k → 12%NCCWIT: $500 → 18%McAdams Cemetery Assoc: $500 → 20%Forest Landowners of California: $5k → 12%NCCWIT: $500 → 18%McAdams Cemetery Assoc: $500 → 20%NCCWIT: $500 → 18%McAdams Cemetery Assoc: $500 → 20%NCCWIT: $500 → 18%McAdams Cemetery Assoc: $500 → 20%UnivCA Cooperative Extension Humbol: $500 → 18%McAdams Cemetery Assoc: $500 → 20%UnivCA Cooperative Extension Humbol: $500 → 18%McAdams Cemetery Assoc: $500 → 20%UnivCA Cooperative Extension Humbol: $500 → 18%UnivCA Cooperative Extension Humbol: $500 → 18%Food for People Inc: $500 → 18%Food for People Inc: $500 → 18%Food for People Inc: $500 → 18%Food for People Inc: $500 → 18%Food for People Inc: $500 → 18%Blue Lake Museum Society: $2k → 18%Blue Lake Museum Society: $1k → 18%Blue Lake Museum Society: $1k → 18%Blue Lake Museum Society: $500 → 18%Blue Lake Museum Society: $500 → 18%Blue Lake Museum Society: $500 → 18%Northern Humboldt Unified HS Distri: $2k → 18%Northern Humboldt Unified HS Distri: $2k → 18%Northern Humboldt Univ HS District: $2k → 18%Northern Humboldt Unified HS Distri: $2k → 18%Humboldt Co Animal Shelter: $600 → 18%Northcoast Regional Land Trust: $400 → 18%Arcata High School: $3k → 18%Arcata High School: $2k → 18%Arcata High School: $2k → 18%Arcata High School: $2k → 18%Redwood Memorial Foundation: $5k → 18%Eel River Valley Foundation: $500 → 18%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59k · 18 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +109% since the first grant, against +66% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$59k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+109%
+66%

Still filing today

33%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • FF
    FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +83%
  • BA
    BREAST AND GYN HEALTH PROJECT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +170%
  • NR
    NORTHCOAST REGIONAL LAND TRUST
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +628%

Funded once

  • RM
    REDWOOD MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +54%
  • NH
    Northern Humboldt Univ HS District
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • HP
    HUMBOLDT PERMACULTURE GUILD
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
Sempervirens Fund

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:…

Environment
2
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
3
Redwood Forest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment
4
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
5
Northern California Regional Land Trust

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…

Environment
6
Rural Futures Fund
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7
Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center Inc

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

Unclassified
8
Southern Humboldt Community Park

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.

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9
Trees Foundation

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.

Unclassified
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
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
12
Coast Ridge Community Forest

The mission is to bring resources to the coastal hills community to create a healthier and safer forest where all residents flourish.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOREST LANDOWNERS OF CALIFORNIA: $10,000 · OtherFOREST LANDOWNERS OF CALIFORNIAArcata High School: $7,500 · OtherArcata High SchoolPBS-KEET Public Television: $6,211 · OtherPBS-KEET Public TelevisionBlue Lake Museum Society: $5,250 · OtherBlue Lake Museum SocietyNorthern Humboldt Unified HS Distri: $4,600 · OtherNorthern Humboldt Unified HS DistriMCADAMS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $4,500 · OtherMCADAMS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INCNCCWIT: $4,116 · OtherNCCWITUnivCA Cooperative Extension Humbol: $2,300 · Other+12 more: $9,300 · Other+12 moreFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC: $4,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR P…NORTHCOAST REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $1,800 · Food & NutritionNORTHCOAST…REDWOOD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationBREAST AND GYN HEALTH PROJECT: $1,800 · HealthNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY: $500 · PhilanthropyEEL RIVER VALLEY FOUNDATION INC: $700 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION: $200 · Environment
Other$53,777Food & Nutrition$6,300Education$5,000Health$1,800Philanthropy$1,000Housing & Shelter$700Environment$200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOREST LANDOWNERS OF CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetREDWOOD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST AND GYN HEALTH PROJECT: $1,800 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHCOAST REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $1,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORWOOD PARK FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetEEL RIVER VALLEY FOUNDATION INC: $700 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumboldt Senior Resource Center: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds FOREST LANDOWNERS OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds REDWOOD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAST AND GYN HEALTH PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds NORTHCOAST REGIONAL LAND TRUST ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Humboldt Area Foundat…Christine & Jalmer Be…Coast Central Credit …Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Humboldt Area FoundationCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Luckens-McAdams Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Luckens-McAdams Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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
    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 28 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-PF 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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