· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY INLAND MENDOCINO COU | $1,000 |
| BONES PET RESCUE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $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 its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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%
- TPTEEN PAIN HELP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $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.
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.
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
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 16 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.
- 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 ↗
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: Community Foundation of Mendocino County · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mountanos Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mountanos Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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