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Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc

To provide dispute resolution services to the people of Fresno, Kern, Tulare, Merced & Solano Counties using competent, well trained staff and volunteers; create awareness of appropriate dispute resolution and consumer education through community outreach; foster a culture of dispute resolution; and provide skills training in conflict…

$279k
Granted FY2019
9
Grants FY2019
8
Organizations funded FY2019
100%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$30,240
Largest grant, FY2019
$53,036
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
4
Total assets, FY2019
$610k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 100% of the organizations Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $279k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20198$279k100%
FY20184$47k100%
FY20171$6kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Community Improvement$292kEmployment$22kPublic Benefit$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($47k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBetter Business Bureau Foundation: $83,276 over 1y, 55% of budgetBetter Business Bureau of Los Angeles and Silicon Valley Inc: $30,240 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBetter Business Bureau of Southern California Incorporated: $30,240 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBetter Business Bureau Inc: $30,240 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBetter Business Bureau of Central California Inc: $30,240 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBetter Business Bureau of Sacramento: $30,240 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBetter Business Bureau Detroit and Eastern Michigan Educational Foundation: $22,331 over 1y, 49% of budgetBetter Business Bureau of Michigan Educational Foundation: $22,331 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetBetter Business Bureau Education Foundation: $6,170 over 1y, 41% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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About Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc

How much does Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc give?
Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $279,138 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Community Improvement (88%), Employment (7%), Public Benefit (4%).
Who are Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Better Business Bureau Foundation ($83k), Better Business Bureau of Los Angeles and Silicon Valley Inc ($30k), Better Business Bureau of Southern California Incorporated ($30k).
Does Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc based?
Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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