· Private foundation
Mountanos Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UKIAH VALLEY CHRISTMAS EFFORT | $2,500 |
| MENDO SHELTER PETS RESCUE | $2,100 |
| UKIAH SENIOR CENTER | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCWEST REG | $1,500 |
| BONES PET RESCUE | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY INLAND MENDOCINO COU | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- UVUKIAH VALLEY CHRISTMAS EFFORT4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +13%
- USUKIAH SENIOR CENTER INC2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +27%
- HSHumane Society for Inland Mendocino County2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- RVREDWOOD VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $3k
- UAUNITED ABILITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +44%
- PAPetaluma Animal Services Foundationone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue -90%
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.
Rescue and place homeless animals
Provide spay/neuter assistance for family pets
Animal rescue, veterinary care and adoption
Providing medical and behavioral care (and animal shelter support) for animals at risk of euthanasia in animal shelters and veterinary clinics and then placing them into adoptive homes with a special focus on sick, injured and newborn dogs…
Animal rescue of abandoned cats and dogs
No Paws Left Behind relocates pets from high-kill shelters to save lives. Animals are being euthanized simply for lack of space in overcrowded shelters. No Paws Left Behind transports from areas oversaturated with unwanted neglected pets…
Provide shelter for unwanted animals
Protection and care of animals
Rescue and care of abandoned keeshonds
provide shelter and care for dogs and cats
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
to administer a spay - neuter program to assist and educate members of the community who have unaltered animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wine Country Animals Lovers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ukiah Senior Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 16 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 UKIAH VALLEY CHRISTMAS EFFORT ↗
- Who funds Mendo Shelter Pets Rescue ↗
- Who funds UKIAH SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BONES PET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Humane Society for Inland Mendocino County ↗
- Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds Petaluma Animal Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds WINE COUNTRY ANIMALS LOVERS INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Mendocino County · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · 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 Mountanos Family Foundation 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.