· Private foundation
Tr Eriksen Trust Fund Co Shelly a Smith Trustee
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of TR ERIKSEN TRUST FUND CO SHELLY A SMITH TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $277k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UKIAH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| PLOWSHARES PEACE JUSTICE CENTER | $40,000 |
| CANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF MENDO COU | $40,000 |
| WILLITS COMMUNITY SERVICES FOOD BAN | $35,000 |
| WILLITS DAILY BREAD | $30,000 |
| WILLITS SENIORS INC | $30,000 |
| WILLITS KIDS CLUB INC | $25,000 |
| UKIAH SENIOR CENTER | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY CARE MANAGEMENT CORP | $22,000 |
| SPACE | $20,000 |
| COURT-APPOINTED SP ADVOCATES | $10,000 |
| MENDOCINO COUNTY SOCCER ACADEMY | $9,000 |
| UKIAH WRESTLING CLUB | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- USUKIAH SENIOR CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +47%
- WKWILLITS KIDS CLUB INC8× · 2017–2024 · $288k · revenue +53%
- WCWillits Community Services Inc6× · 2018–2023 · $204k · revenue +138% · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- LSLAYTONVILLE SKATE PARK PROJECT CO HOWARD MEMORIAL PARK INCone grant, 2019 · $25k
- PVPOTTER VALLEY YOUTH COMMUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +57%
- WCWILLITS COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Business closed waiting for dissolution from California
Enable frail seniors to maintain their independence at home by providing them with high quality, nutritious meals that are cost effective, prepared in West Contra Costa County, delivered by caring drivers and administered by local…
Hands of Hope works to enhance the quality of life in the Yuba-Sutter area by: Providing core support services to the homeless; Reintegrating the homeless within our community; Engaging the community to respond to the challenge of…
To Provide a benefit to the public by providing work related training and job placement services to low income adults and youth (ages 16-24 yrs).
Sharing and Caring assists the poor and needy in the Tehachapi, California community through providing: 1) rent/shelter & utility payments; 2) food assistance; 3) holiday meals & holiday gifts for children & their families who would…
Deliver meals and provide informal health and welfare visits to disabled and elderly clients in the Santa Maria Valley.
The Community Center of Mendocino's main function is to provide after school enrichment programs for grade school children. Secondary function is to provide recreation.
Provide referrals for court mandated community service. offer meal delivery for home bound individuals.
Provide basic shelter services to the community's poor, those without food and shelter.
To provide meals, health related services, social activities and other services to the local community with a focus on seniors.
To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.
To provide services for developmentally disabled individuals and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Coast Opportunities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Renewable Energy Development Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
18 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. 18 of the 41 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 UKIAH SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILLITS KIDS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Willits Senior Inc ↗
- Who funds Willits Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLITS DAILY BREAD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF UKIAH ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates ↗
- Who funds The Ford Street Project ↗
- Who funds UKIAH VALLEY CULTURAL & REC CENTER ↗
- Who funds Community Care Management Corporation ↗
- Who funds PLOWSHARES PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO COUNTY SPORTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds POTTER VALLEY YOUTH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UKIAH VALLEY CHRISTMAS EFFORT ↗
- Who funds RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PEP Housing ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF UKIAH INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Mendocino County · George and Ruth Bradford Foundation · Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc · Ukiah Adventist Hospital · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Tr Eriksen Trust Fund Co Shelly a Smith Trustee 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.
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.