Community Investment
With thanks to our members, we award $200,000 in grants annually to deserving organizations.
Our Community Investment Program provides grants to local non-profit organizations twice per year. An employee committee reviews all applications and then makes recommendations to our Board of Directors who approves grant recipients. Grants ranging generally from $3,000 to $25,000 are awarded, up to a total of $100,000 in each round. See our recent recipients below!
Our Fall Grant Round is closed. Recipients will be announced in mid-October. Next Round opens February 1, 2022. Thank you for your interest.
Download a Grant ApplicationGrant Recipients
Fall 2021
Affordable Homeless Housing Alternatives
Provide homeless with winter weather gear
$5,500
Ink People- MARZ Project
Equipment/supplies for at-risk youth for digital art activities
$15,000
Orleans Volunteer Fire Department
New fire station’s generator, apparatus, and equipment
$13,500
Salmon Creek Volunteer Fire Department
New volunteer firefighter critical gear
$8,200
Abbey of the Redwoods
Upgrade/ expansion of SeaGoat Farm-stand
$13,000
Cooperation Humboldt
Mini-garden planter boxes, seeds, and supplies
$10,000
Ink People- Humboldt Period Project
Drop-in menstrual and art supplies
$9,800
North Fork Grange #763
Rebuilding/ enhancing water supply destroyed by Monument Fire
$25,000
Spring 2021
2-1-1 Humboldt Info & Resource Center
Clothing for low-income families with children
$5,000
Healy Senior Center
Local food for seniors
$7,350
Seventh Generation Fund Centro del Pueblo
Gardens for Hispanic and Indigenous families
$7,000
Blue Lake Volunteer Fire Department
Emergency medical equipment & training
$2,925
McKinleyville Collaborative – Family Resource Center
Food pantry shelving
$4,000
Mattole Valley Resource Center
Food pantry storage & equipment
$3,350
Briceland Volunteer Fire Department
New fire station garage doors
$12,500
Free to Fly Single Mom’s Fund
Utility bills, rent, car maintenance, children’s school needs
$10,000
Fortuna Volunteer Fire Department
CPR equipment
$7,000
Arcata Volunteer Fire Department
Arcata Volunteer Fire Department
$4,500
Del Norte Amateur Radio Club
Portable emergency communications command center
$12,500
Del Norte For All Time Cat Haven
Vet care and food for cat shelter/adoption agency
$8,239
Trinity Junction City Fire Protection District
Defibrillator equipment replacement
$9,636
Trinity CA State Grange Foundation/North Fork Grange
On-site storage unit
$3,000
Trinity Watershed Research & Training Center
Youth safety training
$3,000