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Bonner Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRESNO ART MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,459 |
| CIVIC EDUCATION CENTER | $8,500 |
| VALLEY PBS | $7,500 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSICAL THEATERWORKS | $5,000 |
| VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| MADDY INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FAFRESNO ART MUSEUM7× · 2017–2025 · $197k · revenue +4%
- CECIVIC EDUCATION CENTER INC5× · 2020–2025 · $67k · revenue +212%
- YOYOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF FRESNO5× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- TFTHE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
MARJAREE MASON CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +125%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the Fresno Philharmonic is to enrich the lives of Central San Joaquin Valley residents through inspiring performances of orchestral music. We are an essential and collaborative member of a vibrant arts scene which unites,…
The Center for the Arts is a cultural and educational organization that promotes and presents the literary, visual and performing arts for the enrichment of the community.
Arts presenter serving the greater Reedsburg area.
To support policies and ballot measures to increase funding and awareness of the importance of arts and music education in public schools.
Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…
To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.
The California-Mexico Studies Centers mission is to establish programs between higher education institutions and cultural organizations that will enhance the teaching and exchange of faculty and students between California and Mexico and…
To provide our students and community with artistic experiences that educate enrich and enterain by securing resources for the castro valley center for the arts.
Missions statement: Plumas Arts cultivates communities in which arts & culture flourish." Goals : Cultivate showcases of arts & culture that enrich quality of life for the residents of, and visitors to, Plumas CountyEnhance & provide…
Support arts programs in sacramento, ca
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fresno Arts Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arte Americas the Mexican Arts Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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.
- Who funds FRESNO ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CIVIC EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF FRESNO ↗
- Who funds Valley Public Television Inc ↗
- Who funds Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc ↗
- Who funds Valley Performing Arts Council ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FCOE INC ↗
- Who funds Fresno Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Arte Americas The Mexican Arts Center ↗
- Who funds KENNETH L MADDY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZFRESNO INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE AUBERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FRESNO COMMUNITY CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bonner Family Foundation 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.
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