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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.

$186k
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Youth Development$547kHuman Services$294kHealth$291kEducation$106kReligion$51kRecreation & Sports$35kPhilanthropy$34kArts & Culture$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k52 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$175k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY TOWN HALL SERIES$2,500
BUCHANAN HIGH BEARS FOUNDATION$2,500
FMA FOUNDATION$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
02The need
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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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%OROVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 18%GIRLS WHO CODE: $1k → 17%OFF THE FRONT: $12k → 19%OFF THE FRONT: $5k → 19%BREAK THE BARRIERS: $2k → 19%BREAK THE BARRIERS: $2k → 19%BREAK THE BARRIERS: $1k → 19%LIVE AGAIN FRESNO: $1k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $1k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $1k → 19%ST FRANCIS HOMELESS PROJECT: $1k → 19%ST FRANCIS HOMELESS PROJECT: $750 → 19%HINDS HOSPICE: $40k → 19%HINDS HOSPICE: $10k → 19%HINDS HOSPICE: $10k → 19%HINDS HOSPICE: $9k → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 84 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
95

Total granted

$1.3M
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+33%

Still filing today

38%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $122k · revenue +198%
  • HH
    Hinds Hospice
    4× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +66%
  • TL
    The Light-House Recovery Program Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +217%

Funded once

  • RC
    RESILIENCY CENTER OF FRESNOgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +70%
  • EH
    EVANGEL HOME FRESNO
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +53%
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.

04Its 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
Saint Agnes Medical Center

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.

Health
2
The California Channel

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…

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3
California Life Sciences Association

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.

Community Improvement
4
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
5
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
6
Adventist Health Medical Ctr Tehachapi dba Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley

Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

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7
Fresno Chamber of Commerce Greater Fresno Area Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing and supporting private sector business

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8
Fresno Building Healthy Communities

To foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives

Community Improvement
9
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
10
Community Medical Centers Inc

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.

Health
11
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
12
Biocom California

Accelerating life science success.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 201 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
45/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $412,025 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSFRESNO COUNTY HEALTHY MARRIAGE COAL: $114,000 · OtherFRESNO COUNTY HEALTHY MARRIAGE COALFRESNO MISSION CITY CENTER PROJECT: $101,000 · OtherFRESNO MISSION CITY CENTER PROJECTBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF FRESNO COUNTY: $61,451 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF FRESNO COUNTYFRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $51,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB: $42,303 · Other+154 more: $305,485 · Other+154 moreCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION: $122,247 · HealthCOMMUNITY HOSPI…The Light-House Recovery Program Inc: $32,250 · HealthThe Light-House…RESILIENCY CENTER OF FRESNO: $25,000 · HealthRESILIENCY CENT…American Heart Association Inc: $7,500 · Health+12 more: $18,750 · Health+12 moreHinds Hospice: $69,000 · Human ServicesOFF THE FRONT: $17,000 · Human ServicesBreak the Barriers Inc: $4,250 · Human ServicesMAKE A DIFFERENCE OUTDOORS: $3,500 · Human Services+6 more: $8,750 · Human ServicesCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $30,500 · PhilanthropyFRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $13,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE AUBERRY LIBRARY: $10,213 · EducationKINGSBURG HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS: $1,500 · EducationTHE GOLDEN CHARTER ACADEMY: $1,000 · EducationFACE IT FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationFRESNO ART MUSEUM: $8,250 · Arts & CultureValley Public Television Inc: $5,750 · Arts & CultureChildrens Musical Theatreworks Inc: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & Culture22 2 NONE: $9,000 · Public BenefitWreaths Across America: $2,000 · Public BenefitVALLEY DREAM CENTER: $1,000 · Public BenefitCENTRAL VALLEY HONOR FLIGHT: $500 · Public Benefit
Other$1,087,264Health$205,747Human Services$102,500Philanthropy$30,500Education$27,213Arts & Culture$17,500Public Benefit$12,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION: $122,247 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetHinds Hospice: $69,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $51,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Light-House Recovery Program Inc: $32,250 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $30,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRESILIENCY CENTER OF FRESNO: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOFF THE FRONT: $17,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE AUBERRY LIBRARY: $10,213 over 8y, 3.1% of budget22 2 NONE: $9,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFRESNO ART MUSEUM: $8,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MADERA ANIMAL SHELTER: $8,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $7,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley Public Television Inc: $5,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBreak the Barriers Inc: $4,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPoverello House: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE A DIFFERENCE OUTDOORS: $3,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLinks Players International Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChildrens Musical Theatreworks Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOMELESS PROJECT INC: $1,750 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSUNNYSIDE LONE STAR LITTLE LEAGUE LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $1,600 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKINGSBURG HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMADERA COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTree Fresno: $1,115 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST SPCA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE AGAIN FRESNO: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOUTING AMERICA SEQUOIA COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFresno Area Community Enterprises Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREBUILD PARADISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GOLDEN CHARTER ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY DREAM CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWEST FRESNO HEALTH CARE COALITION DBA WEST FRESNO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCEANA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWERING LIVES INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACE IT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetShepherds Love: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetANIMAL COMPASSION TEAM OF CALIFORNIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 Poverello House ↗
  • Who funds ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Leon S Peters Foundat…Central California Fo…The Richard & Althea …Bonner Family Foundat…Daniel R Martin Famil…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The California Endowm…Rotary Club of Fresno…Isnardi FoundationThe Fansler FoundationValley Children's Hos…Wayne H Towne Family …
Leon S Peters FoundationCA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Briscoe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Briscoe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Briscoe Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Briscoe Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 201 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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