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Myriad Consulting and Training Inc

Myriad is a consulting firm that specializes in collections preservation and planning for small to mid-sized cultural organizations.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
75
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k65 grants · $935k
$14,954
Median grant
1
States reached
$279k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Los Gatos Museum Assoc$15,000
Salvation Mountain Inc$15,000
Vacaville Museum$15,000
Ganna Walska Lotusland$15,000
South Pasadena Hist Museum$15,000
Modesto Jr Col Great Valley Museu$15,000
La Pea Cultural Center$15,000
Imperial County Historical Society$15,000
San Diego Air & Space Museum$15,000
Yolo Co Archives & Hist Collectio$15,000
Alpine County Library & Archives$15,000
Writers Guild Foundation$15,000
Mission Peak Heritage Found$15,000
California Botanic Garden$15,000
Corita Art Center Inc$15,000
02The need
02

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%San Bruno Public Library: $15k → 7%Santa Clara City Library: $15k → 8%Saint Marys College of Ca: $15k → 9%Mission Viejo Library: $15k → 10%Vacaville Museum: $15k → 10%Friends of the Oakland Public Libr: $15k → 10%Corporation of the Fine Arts Museum: $15k → 10%San Diego Archaeological Center: $15k → 11%Civil Rights Institute Inland SoCa: $15k → 11%Templeton Hist Museum Soc: $15k → 12%Joshua Tree Creative Lab: $15k → 14%Turtle Bay Exploration Park: $15k → 14%Corita Art Center Inc: $15k → 14%Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians: $15k → 14%Modesto Jr Col Great Valley Museu: $15k → 15%Yolo Co Archives & Hist Collectio: $15k → 16%Alpine County Library & Archives: $15k → 16%Morris Graves Museum of Art: $15k → 18%Tulare County Museum: $15k → 18%Chico History Museum: $15k → 18%Fresno Art Museum: $15k → 19%Salvation Mountain Inc: $15k → 21%Mechanics Institute: $15k → 10%San Diego Air & Space Museum: $15k → 11%Ganna Walska Lotusland: $15k → 14%Kern River Valley Hist Soc: $15k → 18%Imperial County Historical Society: $15k → 21%Los Gatos Museum Assoc: $15k → 8%Sonoma County Wine Library: $15k → 9%La Pea Cultural Center: $15k → 10%American Bookbinders Museum: $15k → 10%San Diego Historical Society: $15k → 11%Banning Library District: $15k → 11%La Historia Hist Soc: $15k → 14%Mineral King Preserv Soc: $15k → 18%Mission Peak Heritage Found: $15k → 10%South Pasadena Hist Museum: $15k → 14%Berkeley Architectural Heritage Ass: $15k → 10%Society of California Pioneers: $15k → 10%The Regents UCLA World Music Ctr: $15k → 14%Japanese CulturalComm Ctr of NoCa: $15k → 10%Santa Clarita Valley Hist Soc: $14k → 14%California Botanic Garden: $15k → 14%PASADENA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15k → 14%Writers Guild Foundation: $15k → 14%Torrance Historical Society: $15k → 14%CSUDH University Library: $15k → 14%Holocaust Museum LA: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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Santa Monica Historical Society

Historical nbsp;preservation nbsp;and nbsp;education

Arts & Culture
2
Pasadena Museum of California Art

To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.

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3
Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society

The museum & historical society located in Healdsburg CA, is charged with the preservation of local history through the collection, preservation & presentation of historical artifacts such as: furniture, photographs, textiles, manuscripts,…

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4
Museum of Art and History At the Mcpherson Center

The museum of art and history was founded in 1996 to promote a greater understanding of contemporary art and the history of santa cruz county. its mission is to bring people together through art and local history to explore our diverse…

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of American Heritage

The museum is dedicated to demonstrating mankind's ability to enhance human life through technological innovation by collecting, preserving and exhibiting mechanical and electrical artifacts.

Arts & Culture
6
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
7
Redwood County Historical Society

Historical preservation

Arts & Culture
8
The Irvine Museum
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Marin History Museum

The Marin History Museum is an active, artifact-based institution dedicated to sharing local history with the people of Marin County and beyond.

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10
Mesa Historical Society Inc

Mesa historical society is a public museum dedicated to preserving mesas rich culture and history through collections and exhibits

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11
Chico Air Museum

The Chico Air Museum was founded to collect, preserve, document and display artifacts significant to the rich aviation and aerospace history of the Chico Army Air Field and the North Valley.

Arts & Culture
12
Sunnyvale Historical Society and Museum Association

To preserve, archive and present the history of Sunnyvale to people of Sunnyvale of a close-up, well documented look at the unique history - from the Ohlone Indians who lived in their Valley in the distant past to the technological…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The California Museum for History Women and the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Mineral King Preservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts and Performa…Land and Parks ConservationAsian American Cultural Org…Faith-Based Community Minis…University Foundation Organ…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%4%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%32%35–55yr12%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%4%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%31%35–55yr12%21%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/72
the rest of the field
14%
18,003/126,584

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
24/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SONOMA COUNTY LIBRARY — $36,378 · OtherSONOMA COUNTY LIBRARYREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $22,949 · Other+37 more — $489,423 · Other+37 moreHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA — $15,000 · Arts & CultureLA HISTORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK — $15,000 · Arts & CultureWRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Arts & CultureCORITA ART CENTER INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $15,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSALVATION MOUNTAIN INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureFRESNO ART MUSEUM — $15,000 · Arts & CultureLa Pea Cultural Center Inc — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN BOOKBINDERS MUSEUM — $15,000 · Arts & CultureHUMBOLDT ARTS COUNCIL INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureVacaville Museum Foundation — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER — $14,998 · Arts & CultureCHICO HISTORY MUSEUM INC — $14,942 · Arts & CultureCIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE OF INLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $14,868 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE ASSOCIATION — $14,702 · Arts & CultureSanta Clarita Valley Historical Society — $14,300 · Arts & CultureLA RAZA HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY — $14,052 · Arts & CultureSANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $13,911 · Arts & CultureMONTEREY HISTORY AND ART ASSOCIATION LTD — $13,785 · Arts & CultureThe Freedom Archives — $13,415 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $31,747 · Arts & Culture+3 moreSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA — $15,000 · EducationSanta Clara City Library Foundation and Friends — $14,954 · EducationMINERAL KING PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $14,826 · EducationLetterform Archive — $14,209 · EducationRANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN — $15,000 · EnvironmentZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $14,996 · Animals
Other$548,750Arts & Culture$385,720Education$58,989Environment$15,000Animals$14,996

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA HISTORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCORITA ART CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKERN RIVER VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSALVATION MOUNTAIN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetIMPERIAL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFRESNO ART MUSEUM — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLa Pea Cultural Center Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTH PASADENA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetTHE AMERICAN BOOKBINDERS MUSEUM — $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY — $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHUMBOLDT ARTS COUNCIL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVacaville Museum Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER — $14,998 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $14,996 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $14,996 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Clara City Library Foundation and Friends — $14,954 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCHICO HISTORY MUSEUM INC — $14,942 over 1y, 37% of budgetCIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE OF INLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $14,868 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMINERAL KING PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $14,826 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS — $14,823 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERKELEY ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE ASSOCIATION — $14,702 over 1y, 17% of budgetMECHANICS' INSTITUTE — $14,655 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSanta Clarita Valley Historical Society — $14,300 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetLetterform Archive — $14,209 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLA RAZA HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY — $14,052 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetSANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $13,911 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMONTEREY HISTORY AND ART ASSOCIATION LTD — $13,785 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetThe Freedom Archives — $13,415 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetGay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society — $12,888 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOLSOM HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOLSOM HISTORY — $11,489 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetOAKBROOK PARK CHUMASH INDIAN CORPORATION — $10,990 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA MUSEUM FOR HISTORY WOMEN AND THE ARTS — $10,451 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $9,268 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $8,704 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

California HumanitiesCalifornia Fire Safe …Foundation for Califo…California Community …Arts Midwest Incorpor…The San Diego Foundat…Public Health Institu…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The James Irvine Foun…The California Wellne…National Fish and Wil…The San Francisco Fou…
California HumanitiesCA34.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Humanities · California Fire Safe Council Inc · Foundation for California Community Colleges · California Community Foundation · Arts Midwest Incorporated · The San Diego Foundation · Public Health Institute · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The San Francisco 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 Myriad Consulting and Training 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your 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
    15report 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

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Myriad Consulting and Training Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Myriad Consulting and Training Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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