· Private foundation
Mother Lode Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARNEGIE HALL | $13,633 |
| STAND UP PLACER | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY AUBURN CORPS | $5,000 |
| CITY OF AUBURN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHRISTMAS CHARITY PROGRAM | $4,588 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| AUBURN GOLD COUNTRY ROTARY CLUB | $3,900 |
| CONFLUENCE HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| PLACER COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE | $3,000 |
| ACRES OF HOPE | $3,000 |
| THE GATHERING INN | $3,000 |
| GLITTER CRITTER'S CHILDCARE | $2,600 |
| THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PLACER | $2,500 |
| UNIV OF CAL REGENTS 4H | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 13 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TGTHE GATHERING INN5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +176%
- TFThe Forgotten Soldier Program3× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +314%
- GSGolden Sierra Life Skills Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- KCKIDS1ST CORPORATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- K1KIDS 1ST NOWone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
to partner with local communiy members and provide a liferestoration program. One that comes alongside young womenat a crossroads in their life.
PIRS is a non-profit independent living center. Our mission is to advocate, empower, educate the community, and provide services for people with disabilities enabling them to control their alternatives for independent living.
A Place to Stand program is the overall organization which supports two food programs and a case management program that serves food and monetary donations to families in need.
Foster care
Deborahs Place supports women in the community with essential services like food housing,mental therapy education and advocacy for those affected by domestic violence sexual assault and re-entry from incarceration. The organization is…
Engaging the youth of Placer County with educational recreational and leadership activities.
To provide immediate access to lodging and triage veterans in crisis for additional services
Provide residential and life skill care to youth in the foster care system ages 17.5 to 21.
To provide a safe haven to young boys who come from a troubled home-life or who attempted to join street gangs, before that life and style leaves an indelible mark on these children.
To ensure housing for all by uniting the community, forming partnerships, inspiring advocacy and providing service
Improve the lives of Vetrans
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 48 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds THE GATHERING INN ↗
- Who funds RIGHT HAND AUBURN INC ↗
- Who funds STAND UP PLACER INC ↗
- Who funds The Forgotten Soldier Program ↗
- Who funds AUBURN INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET INC ↗
- Who funds Fit For Life Gymnastics Inc ↗
- Who funds Golden Sierra Life Skills Inc ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTING THE TAYLOR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AUBURN LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION PLANET ↗
- Who funds HORSES FOR HEALING INC ↗
- Who funds PLACER NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SENIORS FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Blossom Place ↗
- Who funds PSAL WINGATE MEMORIAL FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Placer Community Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Armrod Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mother Lode Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mother Lode Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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