· Private foundation
The Mel and Grace McLean Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k38 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation | $25,000 |
| Humboldt Area Foundation | $17,000 |
| Humboldt Area Foundation | $9,500 |
| Humboldt Area Foundation | $9,000 |
| The Ink People Center for the Arts/ English Express | $6,180 |
| Northern California Community Blood Bank | $5,000 |
| Heart of the Redwoods Hospice | $5,000 |
| St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation | $5,000 |
| The Ink People Center for the Arts/ English Express | $5,000 |
| The Ink People Center for the Arts/ English Express | $3,500 |
| Food for People, Inc. | $2,660 |
| Humboldt Area Foundation | $2,500 |
| Northcoast Regional Land Trust | $2,500 |
| LightHouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired | $2,500 |
| Humboldt Area Foundation | $2,500 |
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.
Friends of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands is dedicated to the preservation, care, and enjoyment of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands.
Cultural restoration
The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
CSERC protects water, wildlife, and wild places of the Northern Yosemite region.
Fort Ross Conservancy (FRC) is the not-for-profit partner of the Russian River Sector, Sonoma/Mendocino District of California State Parks. FRC works to preserve the nature and culture of the Sonoma Coast for the benefit of the public.
The land trust is organized to preserve productive lands, scenic areas, natural habitats, and historic and archaeological sites for the benefit of present and future generations.
To strengthen our local food system to support a healthy and resilient north coast community.
Northern California Sled Dog Rescue (NORSLED) is an all volunteer non-profit group dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, fostering and finding new homes for unwanted, abused and abandoned siberian huskies, alaskan malamutes, samoyeds and…
Bear Yuba Land Trust exists to conserve and protect the natural, working, and cultural lands in the Bear and Yuba River watersheds and empower a healthy, resilient community through nature access and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humboldt Area Foundation and the most unlike its peers is New Life Christian School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 21 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 HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds Ferndale Repertory Theatre ↗
- Who funds NORTHCOAST REGIONAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DUNES ↗
- Who funds FORTUNA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds EUREKA RESCUE MISSION ↗
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: Humboldt Area Foundation · Andree Wagner Peace Trust UTD 121289 · Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation · Coast Central Credit Union · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.
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