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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.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$487kHousing & Shelter$266kYouth Development$264kEducation$209kHealth$142kRecreation & Sports$81kArts & Culture$64kPublic Benefit$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
$10,121
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MOUNTAINS SHADOWS FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%US VETS: $15k → 11%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $10k → 11%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING: $49k → 14%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING: $49k → 14%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING: $40k → 14%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING: $35k → 14%CHRISTMAS CHEER ALL-YEAR PROGRAM: $8k → 14%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.
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 32 repeat orgs$364k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
43

Total granted

$1.4M
$350k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+14%

Still filing today

41%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    6× · 2019–2025 · $265k · revenue +28%
  • PB
    PROJECT BOON INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +438% · 42% of their budget
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • CB
    CITIZENS BUSINESS BANK ARENA
    one grant, 2019 · $45k
  • IR
    IE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • AL
    ASSISTANCE LEAGUE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Lapd Cops for Tots

Provide Gifts to Sick Childrens Families

Human Services
2
Menifee Police Foundation

Community support

Public Benefit
3
Fontana Police Foundation

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,…

Crime & Legal
4
San Diego Crime Commission

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…

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5
Santa Barbara County Deputy Sheriffs Foundation

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…

Public Benefit
6
Lvmpd Explorer Program

To educate and involve youth in police operations, to interest them in possible law enforecement careers, and to build mutual understanding.

Youth Development
7
Escondido Police Officers Care Foundation

The purpose is to help the City of Escondido's Youth

Crime & Legal
8
The California Boys & Girls State Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Anaheim Police Athletic League

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

Recreation & Sports
10
California Highway Patrol

Support youth

Youth Development
11
Machado Family Giving Inc

Supporting at risk children with essentials for a positive and enriched future

Human Services
12
Sacramento County Sheriffs Foundation

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…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Southern California; 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.
04the grantee network

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 77 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $265,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAHOPE THRU HOUSING: $92,750 · OtherHOPE THRU HOUSINGFUSD FLIP PROGRAM: $91,105 · OtherFUSD FLIP PROGRAMBIG BROTHER'S AN BIG SISTERS OF THE: $75,000 · OtherBIG BROTHER'S AN BIG SISTERS OF THEIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherCITIZENS BUSINESS BANK ARENA: $45,000 · Other+59 more: $634,414 · Other+59 moreHOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $173,300 · Human ServicesHOPE THROUGH …UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $25,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES…The Christmas Cheer All Year Program: $8,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $55,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $35,000 · HealthSAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SHERIFFS EMPLOYEES BENEFIT ASSOC-CHARITY FUND: $47,500 · Youth DevelopmentJunior Fontana Leadership Intervention Program: $15,500 · Youth DevelopmentFontana Leadership Intervention Program: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT BOON INC: $51,000 · Food & NutritionHEROES WAREHOUSE: $37,500 · Housing & ShelterMISS FONTANA INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,253,269Human Services$211,800Health$90,000Youth Development$78,000Food & Nutrition$51,000Housing & Shelter$37,500Arts & Culture$25,000

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 budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $265,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $173,300 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BOON INC: $51,000 over 6y, 42% of budgetSAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SHERIFFS EMPLOYEES BENEFIT ASSOC-CHARITY FUND: $47,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetHEROES WAREHOUSE: $37,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISS FONTANA INC: $25,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Fontana Leadership Intervention Program: $15,500 over 2y, 76% of budgetAssistance League of Riverside California: $12,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFontana Police Explorers: $10,200 over 2y, 15% of budgetChaffey College Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA NEVADA DISTRICT EXCHANGE CLUB S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetThe Christmas Cheer All Year Program: $8,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMOUNTAIN SHADOWS FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTeam Lilly Foundation inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUnited Steelworkers Local 12-07600: $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 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 MISS FONTANA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
  • 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 Chaffey College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA NEVADA DISTRICT EXCHANGE CLUB S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…Amazonsmile Foundation
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Amazonsmile 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 Fontana Foundation of Hope funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fontana Foundation of Hope. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Fontana Foundation of Hope?

    Find your warmest path to Fontana Foundation of Hope 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 77 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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