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Briscoe Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k52 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HINDS HOSPICE | $40,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $38,250 |
| COMMUNITY MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FRESNO COUNTY HEALTHY MARRIAGE COAL | $12,000 |
| CENTRAL VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF FRESNO COUNTY | $6,700 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF FRE | $3,500 |
| MAKE A DIFFERENCE OUTDOORS | $3,500 |
| BUCHANAN HIGH BEARS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FMA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY TOWN HALL SERIES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| SAMOAN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF JES | $2,000 |
| FRESNO STATE BOWLING CLUB | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF AUBERRY LIBRARY | $1,713 |
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 (FY17–25, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
84 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- CHCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $122k · revenue +198%
- HHHinds Hospice4× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +62%
- TLThe Light-House Recovery Program Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +217%
Funded once
- RCRESILIENCY CENTER OF FRESNOgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +70%
- EHEVANGEL HOME FRESNOone grant, 2022 · $10k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +53%
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.
We, saint agnes medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint agnes medical center is a member of trinity health.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Clsa advances californias world-leading life sciences innovation ecosystem by advocating for effective national, state and local public policies and supporting entrepreneurs and life sciences businesses.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.
Enhancing and supporting private sector business
To foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Accelerating life science success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Make a Difference Outdoors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
69 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. 69 of the 201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hinds Hospice ↗
- Who funds FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Light-House Recovery Program Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCY CENTER OF FRESNO ↗
- Who funds OFF THE FRONT ↗
- Who funds FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE AUBERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds 22 2 NONE ↗
- Who funds FRESNO ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MADERA ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Valley Public Television Inc ↗
- Who funds Break the Barriers Inc ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION ↗
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: Leon S Peters Foundation · Central California Food Bank · The Richard & Althea Johanson Family Foundation · Bonner Family Foundation · Daniel R Martin Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Endowment · Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation · Isnardi Foundation · The Fansler Foundation · Valley Children's Hospital · Wayne H Towne Family Foundation
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 Briscoe 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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