· Public charity
Educational Employees Credit Union
EDUCATIONAL EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION is a cooperative, organized for the purpose of promoting thrift and savings among its members, creating a source of credit for them at rates of interest set by the board of directors, and providing an opportunity for them to use and control their own money on a democratic basis in order to improve their…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $489,625 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $698,625 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $209,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $320k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FOUNDATION FCOE | $114,000 |
| FRESNO GRIZZLIES | $35,000 |
| SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION | $30,000 |
| STATE CENTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $24,500 |
| VALLEY PUBLIC RADIO | $24,000 |
| BIG FRESNO FAIR | $20,000 |
| VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE SEQUOIAS FOUNDATION | $14,100 |
| UNITED WAY OF MERCED COUNTY | $12,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CENTRAL SCHOOLS | $12,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $12,500 |
| FRESNO COMPACT | $10,000 |
| FORWARD FRESNO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRESNO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR FRESNO UNIFIED SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FCOE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $473k · revenue +50%
- SCSTATE CENTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $126k · revenue +90%
- WHWEST HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- AABC-30one grant, 2022 · $102k
- UOUniversity of California Merced Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $62k · revenue +27%
- MUMADERA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $17k
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.
To strengthen the voice of business in Californias Central Valley through information sharing expertise networking connections and research to impact economic policies programs and projects.
The Foundation was established to raise funds for the purpose of contributing to charitable and educational organizations in the local, national, and international community.
Enhancing and supporting private sector business
To benefit the university of california santa cruz.
Scholarship awards.
To promote the science of medicine.
To promote education and self-sufficiency through economic development that strengthens our community.
Agricultural education at california state university, fresno.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
Connect, engage and celebrate alumni, students and friends of sacramento state while building lifelong relationships that support the future of our university.
To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is State Center Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Love Harder Project Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 106 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 THE FOUNDATION FCOE INC ↗
- Who funds STATE CENTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds College of the Sequoias Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fresno City and County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds White Ash Broadcasting Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESNO DEPUTY SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds University of California Merced Foundation ↗
- Who funds Valley Public Television Inc ↗
- Who funds WINGS ADVOCACY FRESNO ↗
- Who funds MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds San Joaquin Valley Town Hall ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FRESNO CRIME STOPPERS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Merced College Foundation ↗
- Who funds United Way of Fresno and Madera Counties ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PASO ROBLES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Central Schools ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA 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 · Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Resnick Foundation · Foundation for California Community Colleges · The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · The Richard & Althea Johanson Family Foundation · Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center · Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation · Saint Agnes Medical Center · The California Endowment
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 Educational Employees Credit Union 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.