· Private foundation
The Mel and Grace McLean Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation | $5,000 |
| The Ink People Center for the Arts/ English Express | $5,000 |
| Heart of the Redwoods Hospice | $5,000 |
| The Ink People Center for the Arts/ English Express | $3,500 |
| Food for People, Inc. | $2,660 |
| The Ink People Center for the Arts/ English Express | $2,500 |
| Ferndale Repertory Theatre | $2,500 |
| LightHouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired | $2,500 |
| Northcoast Regional Land Trust | $2,500 |
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.
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.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 21 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 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 NORTHCOAST REGIONAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Ferndale Repertory Theatre ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DUNES ↗
- Who funds FORTUNA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds EUREKA RESCUE MISSION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
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