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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
4
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2019 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $226k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$30,240
Median grant
4
States reached
$610k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Better Business Bureau Founda$53,036
BBB of Sacramento$30,240
BBB Foundation$30,240
BBB of Los Angeles & Silicon$30,240
BBB of Central California$30,240
Better Business Bureau Inc$30,240
BBB of Southern CA Inc$30,240
BBB - Detroit & Eastern Mich$22,331
BBB of Western Michigan Educ$22,331
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BBB Foundation: $30k → 11%Better Business Bureau Founda: $53k → 8%BBB of Los Angeles & Silicon: $30k → 8%Better Business Bureau Inc: $30k → 10%BBB of Sacramento: $30k → 12%BBB of Central California: $30k → 19%BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU EDUCATION: $6k → 10%BBB - Detroit & Eastern Mich: $22k → 8%BBB of Western Michigan Educ: $22k → 11%BBB of Los Angeles & Silicon: $12k → 8%BBB of Golden Gate & N Calif: $12k → 10%BBB of Sacramento: $12k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Better Business Bureau

Promote the highest ethical relationship between business and the public, through voluntary self-regulation, consumer and business education, and service excellence.

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2
Better Business Bureau Inc

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,…

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3
Better Business Bureau Inc

To be the leader in advancing marketplace trust.

Community Improvement
4
Better Business Bureau of the Upstate Inc

Our mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust.

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5
Better Business Bureau of North Central Texas Inc

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.

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6
Better Business Bureau Detroit and Eastern Michigan

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)…

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7
Better Business Bureau of Central Ohio Inc

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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8
Better Business Bureau Consumer Education Fund Inc

None

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9
Better Business Bureau of Ne in Charitable & Education Fund

To promote and foster the highest ethical relationship between business and the public through consumer and business education.

Human Services
10
Better Business Bureau of Delaware Foundation
Community Improvement
11
Better Business Bureau

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…

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12
Council of Better Business Bureaus Inc

To be the leader in advancing marketplace trust.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Business Bureau Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU FOUNDATION: $83,276 · OtherBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU FOUNDATIONBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF LOS ANGELES AND SILICON VALLEY INC: $30,240 · OtherBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF LOS ANGELES AND SILICON VALLEY INCBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INCORPORATED: $30,240 · OtherBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INCORPORATEDBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INC: $30,240 · OtherBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU INCBetter Business Bureau of Central California Inc: $30,240 · OtherBetter Business Bureau of Central California IncBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF SACRAMENTO: $30,240 · OtherBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF SACRAMENTOBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU DETROIT AND EASTERN MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $22,331 · OtherBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU DETROIT AND EASTERN MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $22,331 · OtherBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONBBB of Los Angeles & Silicon: $11,667 · OtherBBB of the Tri Counties: $11,667 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $11,667 · OtherBBB of Golden Gate & N Calif: $11,666 · Other+1 more: $6,170 · Other
Other$331,975

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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