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Patricia D & William B Smullin 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.

$674k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.4MEducation$772kHealth$772kPhilanthropy$644kYouth Development$500kHousing & Shelter$226kHuman Services$216kEnvironment$143kArts & Culture$17kOther$670k
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SORREL LEAF HEARING CENTER$300,000
HUMBOLDT LIBRARY FOUNDATION$50,000
CAL POLY HUMBOLDT SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION$44,830
HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT$30,000
ILLNOIS VALLEY FAMILY COALITION$25,000
BREAST AND GYN HEALTH PROJECT$20,000
OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$20,000
HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SHASTA DIABLO INC$15,000
HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION$10,000
ARCATA HOUSE PARTNERSHIP$10,000
CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION$10,000
HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION$10,000
KLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CENTER$10,000
SOUTH COAST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT CORP$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $10k → 16%KEE CHA-ENAR CORPORATION: $10k → 17%HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT: $45k → 18%GOLD BEACH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 14%KEE CHA-E-NAR CORPORATION: $10k → 17%HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT: $45k → 18%KEE CHA-E-NAR CORPORATION: $8k → 17%HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT: $30k → 18%CHETCO ACTIVITY CENTER: $1k → 14%HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT: $5k → 18%REDWOOD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $15k → 18%HUMBOLDT SOUPS ON: $5k → 18%ERV COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $8k → 18%ERV COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $2k → 18%ERV COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $2k → 18%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 edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 23 repeat orgs$877k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
38

Total granted

$3.9M
$473k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+16%

Still filing today

96%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $404k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

  • FF
    FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +106%
  • WC
    Willow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest
    2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +22%
  • HS
    Humboldt Senior Resource Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $438k · revenue +251%

Funded once

  • RC
    ROGUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $155k · revenue +311%
  • LP
    Life Plan Humboldt
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -36%
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club of the Redwoodsgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Humboldt County Historical Association
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2
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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3
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
4
Redwood Coast Seniors Inc

Redwood Coast Seniors Inc. operates a senior center providing meals, transportation, day care, activities and support services that contribute to optimal wellness and healthy aging for all seniors on the Mendocino North Coast.

Human Services
5
Humboldt County Food Pantry

Provide a community food pantry to low-income residents in Humboldt County.

Food & Nutrition
6
Access Humboldt

To provide support support and community based media programs to the public. Access Humboldt establishes and operates a community media access center and serves access viewers with programming reflecting the activities, concerns, diversity…

Arts & Culture
7
Heart of the Redwoods Community Hospice

Providing physical, emotional, practical and spiritual support for people and families who are dealing with life-threatening illness, the dying process, death and or bereavement of a loved one.

Human Services
8
Humboldt County Memorial Hospital Foundation

To solicit gifts for support of the Humboldt County Memorial Hospital and to improve the health and well-being of the citizens of Humboldt County.

Health
9
Hrc Foundation

Provide a community-based health and recreation center that offers accessible programs, services, and facilities designed to promote physical fitness, mental well-being, and social connection for residents of Humboldt County, Iowa and the…

Recreation & Sports
10
Homeless Resource Council of the Sierras

To lead, collaborate, coordinate, develop, and implement strategies and resources to end homelessness in Nevada and Placer counties.

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11
Big Sur Health Center Inc

The Big Sur Health Center exists to serve the health and wellness needs of the Big Sur community by providing quality healthcare through traditional and complementary approaches that are culturally sensitive and center on patient needs.

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12
Health Projects Center

Health Projects Center supports people as they age to live safely at home by delivering high quality services and programs in the Monterey Bay Region.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Happy Camp Community Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Erv Community Center Foundation. 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 backsteadyHumboldt County Community O…Watershed Restoration Counc…Community Support ServicesRegional Community Conferen…Senior Services & Community…Fraternal Service Organizat…Community Theater & Perform…Southern Oregon Community S…Child Advocacy & Family Sup…Rogue Valley Community Orga…
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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr12%13%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr20%24%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%13%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr20%38%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr16%17%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/69
the rest of the field
11%
360/3,304

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.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 74 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/66
Grantees still filing
41/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC — $1,180,900 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR PEOPLE INCTRINITY FOOD OUTREACH INC — $197,733 · Food & NutritionTRINITY FOOD OUTREACH INC+2 more — $12,500 · Food & NutritionCAL POLY HUMBOLDT SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION — $429,863 · EducationCAL POLY HUMBOLD…ROGUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $154,800 · EducationROGUE COMMUNITY …CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION — $105,703 · EducationCAL POLY HUMBOLD…HUMBOLDT LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationHUMBOLDT LIBRARY…+4 more — $31,970 · EducationSORREL LEAF HEALING CENTER INC — $300,000 · HealthSORREL LEAF HEAL…BREAST AND GYN HEALTH PROJECT — $160,000 · HealthBREAST AND GYN H…SOUTHERN HUMBOLDT COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $120,000 · HealthSOUTHERN HUMBOLD…Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $120,000 · HealthPlanned Parentho…NORTH COAST HEALTH IMPROVEMENT AND INFORMATION NETWORK INC — $56,000 · HealthNORTH COAST HEAL…+2 more — $15,500 · HealthHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION — $555,041 · PhilanthropyHUMBOLDT AREA…UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC — $40,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE — $36,700 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOU…+2 more — $12,250 · PhilanthropyHumboldt Senior Resource Center — $437,666 · OtherHumboldt Senior Resour…Boys and Girls Club of the Redwoods — $35,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC — $125,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT IN…MID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL — $100,000 · OtherMID KLAMATH WATERSHED …+40 more — $346,934 · Other+40 moreWillow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest — $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentWillow Cre…EUREKA RESCUE MISSION — $92,500 · Housing & ShelterLife Plan Humboldt — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterILLINOIS VALLEY FAMILY COALITION — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterARCATA HOUSE PARTNERSHIP — $35,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $7,500 · Housing & Shelter
Food & Nutrition$1,391,133Education$772,336Health$771,500Philanthropy$643,991Other$1,044,600Youth Development$500,000Housing & Shelter$225,500

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 budgetFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC — $1,180,900 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION — $555,041 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetWillow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest — $500,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetHumboldt Senior Resource Center — $437,666 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCAL POLY HUMBOLDT SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION — $429,863 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSORREL LEAF HEALING CENTER INC — $300,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTRINITY FOOD OUTREACH INC — $197,733 over 8y, 82% of budgetBREAST AND GYN HEALTH PROJECT — $160,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetROGUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $154,800 over 1y, 10% of budgetHOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC — $125,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN HUMBOLDT COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION — $105,703 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEUREKA RESCUE MISSION — $92,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetNORTH COAST HEALTH IMPROVEMENT AND INFORMATION NETWORK INC — $56,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetLife Plan Humboldt — $50,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetHUMBOLDT LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC — $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetILLINOIS VALLEY FAMILY COALITION — $40,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE — $36,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetARCATA HOUSE PARTNERSHIP — $35,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of the Redwoods — $35,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetOregon Environmental Council — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKEE CHA-E-NAR CORPORATION — $27,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CURRY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetHealy Senior Center of Southern Humboldt Inc — $15,750 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetREDWOODS RURAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON TECH FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRedwood Community Action Agency — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFour Way Community Foundation — $12,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHUMBOLDT AREA CENTER FOR HARM REDUCTION — $12,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHORNBROOK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetCOALICION FORTALEZA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRIDGES TO RIFFLES INDIGENOUS CONSER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTH COAST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS FOUNDATION — $9,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBETTY KWAN CHINN HOMELESS FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetParticular Council of the Redwood Region of the Society of St Vincent de Paul — $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPlayhouse Arts — $7,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGOLD BEACH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetKLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARIES — $5,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetRedwood Playhouse — $5,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $4,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEMORE PROJECT INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBROOKINGS HARBOR COMMUNITY HELPERS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Humboldt Area Foundat…The Ford Family Found…Humboldt Health Found…St Joseph Hospital of…Christine & Jalmer Be…The Schmidbauer Famil…Coast Central Credit …The Oregon Community …The Roundhouse Founda…St Joseph Health Syst…Sisters of St Joseph …Andree Wagner Peace T…
Humboldt Area FoundationCA92.6× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Humboldt Area Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Humboldt Health Foundation · St Joseph Hospital of Eureka · Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation · The Schmidbauer Family Foundation · Coast Central Credit Union · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · St Joseph Health System Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Andree Wagner Peace Trust UTD 121289

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 Patricia D & William B Smullin Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 40%
  • Hiv Alliance — 54% of income from government
  • South Coast Business Employment Corporation — 41% of income from government
  • Illinois Valley Family Coalition — 40% of income from government
  • United Way of Jackson County Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Klamath Basin Senior Citizens' Center — 6% of income from government
  • Southern Oregon University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Patricia D & William B Smullin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Patricia D & William B Smullin Foundation 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 74 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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