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Frank C Diener 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 $10k9 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARY IMMACULATE QUEEN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| SAN JOAQUIN MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| ST ANNE'S CHURCH RIVERDALE | $10,000 |
| HANFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CRICKET'S HOPE INC | $5,000 |
| NAZARETH HOUSE | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE OF IDAHO | $5,000 |
| CANDLELIGHT GUILD | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FRESNO | $5,000 |
| TAYLOR'S HEART | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CARMEL FATHERS OF SAN JOSE | $2,500 |
| NUESTRA SENORA DEL CARMELO | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- DEDIENER EDUCATION FUND3× · 2017–2019 · $555k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA2× · 2017–2018 · $240k
- SJSAN JOAQUIN MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $240k
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAone grant, 2018 · $50k
- SAST ANNE'S SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SAST ANNE'S PARISH HALLone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Operation of a foster family care agency
California liver institute mission is to bridge a gap between scientific research, patient and caregiver education and curative individual treatments for people with liver cancer and its causative liver disease.
Offer free meals and basic clothing on site to the homeless or hungry, provide a place of Christian worship and an opportunity to receive counseling to those persons requesting it. This is all done in a dignified manner. The formal mission…
Family connections christian adoptions exists to assist the waiting children of the world into permanent, loving families. it is our belief that god's love is best expressed in the family. the work of fcca is a living expression of our…
Care fresno creates safe and healthy communities at high crime apartment complexes, through collaboration with law enforcement, faith-based organizations, and community agencies.
Covenant childrens home is to provide a residence, food and clothing plus a continuum of care including physical, emotional, and spiritual nurturing for neglected, abandoned or abused children.
The Nicole Parker Foundation for Children is dedicated to helping Children. Funds raised are used to fund organizations who provide comprehensive, high-quality care programs designed for children.
To develop and administer programs designed to assist women and men in confronting and dealing with the physical, emotional, economical, social and spiritual difficulties associated with a crisis pregnancy.
Fresno community hospital and medical center's (fch&mc's) exists to better the lives of all those we serve
The mission of calvary home for children is to provide help, hope, and home to abused and neglected children in upstate south carolina.
The Mantooth House is a Recovery Residence for Chemically Dependent adult women who have successfully completed primary treatment and are in early, but active recovery. We exist to provide quality recovery housing and bridge the gap…
The mission of Cathedral Home is to enrich the well-being of youth and families. We exist so that every child and family has the resources to thrive. Our agency values are health, access, equity, and compassion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nazareth House of Fresno Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 51 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 BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CANDLELIGHT GUILD ↗
- Who funds Lemoore Christian Aid Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH HOUSE OF FRESNO INC ↗
- Who funds Taylors Heart ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC ENGAGED ENCOUNTER OF FRESNO INC ↗
- Who funds Poverello House ↗
- Who funds The College of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds CRICKETS HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Frank C Diener 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.
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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