· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HANFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST ANNE'S CHURCH RIVERDALE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE OF IDAHO | $5,000 |
| CANDLELIGHT GUILD | $5,000 |
| CRICKET'S HOPE INC | $5,000 |
| NAZARETH HOUSE | $5,000 |
| TAYLOR'S HEART | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FRESNO | $5,000 |
| CARMEL FATHERS OF SAN JOSE | $2,500 |
| NUESTRA SENORA DEL CARMELO | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- HCHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +166%
- SAST ALOYSIUS SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CANDLELIGHT GUILD ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
- Who funds Lemoore Christian Aid Inc ↗
- Who funds Poverello House ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH HOUSE OF FRESNO INC ↗
- Who funds The College of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds Taylors Heart ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC ENGAGED ENCOUNTER OF FRESNO INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds CRICKETS HOPE 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frank C Diener Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank C Diener Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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