· Private foundation
Fontana Foundation of Hope
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE THROUGH HOUSING | $35,300 |
| INLAND EMPIRE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $25,000 |
| US VETS | $15,000 |
| MISS FONTANA | $15,000 |
| CITY OF FONTANA | $10,450 |
| FONTANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,121 |
| CHRISTMAS CHEER ALL YEAR | $8,000 |
| INLAND WOODWORKERS ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,050 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,025 |
| CALIFORNIA NEVADA DISTRICT EXCHANGE CLUBS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| FUSD SCHOOL POLICE | $1,906 |
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 (FY19–25, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
32 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA6× · 2019–2025 · $265k · revenue +28%
- PBPROJECT BOON INC6× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +438% · 42% of their budget
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CBCITIZENS BUSINESS BANK ARENAone grant, 2019 · $45k
- ALASSISTANCE LEAGUEone grant, 2021 · $25k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE INLAND EMPIREone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
Provide Gifts to Sick Childrens Families
Community support
Contributions to other 501(c)(3) such as the boys and girls club, Loma Linda University Medical Center, and the City of Fontana for use in their local social programs such as the Senior Citizens Center, "Shop with a Hero" Christmas event,…
Law enforcement agencies in today's environment find it difficult to cope with the magnitude of crime without the involved support of business, media and community. Since 1981, the San Diego County Crime Commission has built public…
The mission of the Santa Barbara Deputy Sheriffs Foundation is to provide critical resources and vital support to improve public safety, officer readiness, and enhance the quality of life for the 450+ men and women who have answered the…
To educate and involve youth in police operations, to interest them in possible law enforecement careers, and to build mutual understanding.
The purpose is to help the City of Escondido's Youth
Establish and nurture positive relationships among Anaheim youth, the police, and community at large through teachings of respect, discipline, accountability, and leadership. Provide alternatives to delinquent and criminal behavior
Support youth
Supporting at risk children with essentials for a positive and enriched future
The Sacramento County Sheriffs Foundation; supports the Sheriffs Office by providing equipment, training, and aid to employees and their families. It focuses on combating drug use and gang activity among young students while bringing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Southern California and the most unlike its peers is United Steelworkers Local 12-07600. 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 15 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
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 77 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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BOON INC ↗
- Who funds SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SHERIFFS EMPLOYEES BENEFIT ASSOC-CHARITY FUND ↗
- Who funds HEROES WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MISS FONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Fontana Leadership Intervention Program ↗
- Who funds Fontana Leadership Intervention Program ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Riverside California ↗
- Who funds Fontana School Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fontana Police Explorers ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA NEVADA DISTRICT EXCHANGE CLUB S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Amazonsmile 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 Fontana Foundation of Hope 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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