· Private foundation
Bonner Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TFTHE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
MARJAREE MASON CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +82%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bonner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bonner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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