California · Private foundation
Bonner Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $68k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Bonner Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $68k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $99k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $143k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $110k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $131k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $169k | 53% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $150k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresno Art Museum | $197,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Civic Education Center Inc | $67,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Youth Orchestras of Fresno | $55,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Valley Public Television Inc | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Valley Performing Arts Council | $26,000 | 4 | 21% |
| The Foundation Fcoe Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Fresno Arts Council Inc | $16,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Arte Americas The Mexican Arts Center | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Kenneth L Maddy Institute | $7,500 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresno Art Museum | $197,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Civic Education Center Inc | $67,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Youth Orchestras of Fresno | $55,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Valley Public Television Inc | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Valley Performing Arts Council | $26,000 | 4 | 21% |
| The Foundation Fcoe Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Fresno Arts Council Inc | $16,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Arte Americas The Mexican Arts Center | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Kenneth L Maddy Institute | $7,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Marjaree Mason Center Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Spectrum Art Gallery | $5,000 | 2 | 5% |
| California State University Fresno Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Fair Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 19% |
| Jazzfresno Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 4% |
| California State University Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Auberry Library | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fresno Community Chorus Inc | $1,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Fresno Pacific University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($351k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bonner Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Briscoe Family Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Endowment · The Richard & Althea Johanson Family Foundation · The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inc · Educational Employees Credit Union · Daniel R Martin Family Foundation · Leon S Peters Foundation · Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable · James B McClatchy Foundation · Resnick Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Bonner Family Foundation
- How much does Bonner Family Foundation give?
- Bonner Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $67,959 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Bonner Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), Philanthropy (12%), Education (12%).
- Who are Bonner Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fresno Art Museum ($197k), Civic Education Center Inc ($67k), Youth Orchestras of Fresno ($55k).
- Does Bonner Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bonner Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bonner Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Briscoe Family Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The California Endowment.
- Where is Bonner Family Foundation based?
- Bonner Family Foundation is based in CA.
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