· Public charity
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…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc’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 · FY2019
- $10k–50k8 grants · $226k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Better Business Bureau Founda | $53,036 |
| BBB of Los Angeles & Silicon | $30,240 |
| Better Business Bureau Inc | $30,240 |
| BBB of Central California | $30,240 |
| BBB Foundation | $30,240 |
| BBB of Sacramento | $30,240 |
| BBB of Southern CA Inc | $30,240 |
| BBB - Detroit & Eastern Mich | $22,331 |
| BBB of Western Michigan Educ | $22,331 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 67% of your 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.
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.
Promote the highest ethical relationship between business and the public, through voluntary self-regulation, consumer and business education, and service excellence.
To be the leader in advancing marketplace trust. the bureau accomplishes this by: creating a community of trustworthy businesses, setting standards for marketplace trust, encouraging and supporting best practices, celebrating role models,…
To be the leader in advancing marketplace trust.
Our mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust.
Our mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust by creating a community of trustworthy businesses, setting standards for marketplace trust and encouraging best practices.
Our mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust. we accomplish this mission by: 1) creating a community of trustworthy businesses. 2) setting standards for marketplace trust. 3) encouraging and supporting best practices. 4)…
The mission better business bureau is to advance marketplace trust by encouragig and supporting ethical business practices. bbb does this by setting standards for trust, accrediting businesses that meet those standards, and providing…
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To promote and foster the highest ethical relationship between business and the public through consumer and business education.
Bbb's mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust. bbb accomplishes this mission by:- developing measures, programs, and services for the protection of the general public- encouraging and supporting best practices by…
To be the leader in advancing marketplace trust.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Business Bureau Inc and the most unlike its peers is Better Business Bureau of Southern California Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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.
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Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc 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.