· Public charity
Fresno Metropolitan Ministry
Learning, connecting and engaging to achieve healthy people and healthy places.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $713k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cultiva La Salud | $444,130 |
| The Fresno Center | $364,683 |
| Centro La Familia | $323,078 |
| Exceptional Parents Unlimited | $233,805 |
| Every Neighborhood Part | $169,466 |
| Black Well & Prosp Center | $101,092 |
| Valley Center for the Blind | $88,526 |
| The Urban Footprint | $62,500 |
| St Rest Church Dev Corp | $57,520 |
| Central CA Food Bank | $49,076 |
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 (FY22–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
- EPEXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED INC3× · 2022–2024 · $874k · revenue +29%
- FIFRESNO INTERDENOMINATIONAL REFUGEE MINISTRIES2× · 2022–2023 · $843k · revenue +53%
- FCFresno County Economic Opportunities Commission2× · 2022–2023 · $452k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $95k · revenue +9%
- RAREADING AND BEYONDone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -56%
- EDEl Dorado Park CDCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue ×11
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 Educational Programs, Health Services and Legal Services to Farm Workers at housing sites and throughout the Salinas Valley and promote improved living conditions.
Access plus capital is nonprofit small business lender and service provider with the mission to eliminate economic barriers to financial success through fair and equitable community investment.
The Central Valley Partnership (CVP) conducts and collaborates in training initiatives, including community organizer training, education on labor history and issues, messaging workshops, etc., aimed at fostering the establishment of new…
To foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives
Valley Health Team, Inc. was established in 1973 for the purpose of providing accessible comprehensive, quality primary health care and additional services to the people in the communities we serve in a culturally and linguistically…
Our mission is to strengthen the regions business community by providing education, technical assistance, access to capital, procurement facilitation and workforce development training.
The organization strives to promote fair housing opportunities and to encourage home ownership by providing education, counseling and financial services to persons seeking home ownership, with a special emphasis toward low to moderate…
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
To promote education and self-sufficiency through economic development that strengthens our community.
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.
To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.
Building Indigenous power through collective action to achieve economic, social and cultural development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission and the most unlike its peers is El Dorado Park Cdc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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 23 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 Cultiva La Salud ↗
- Who funds THE FRESNO CENTER ↗
- Who funds Centro La Familia Advocacy Services INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds FRESNO INTERDENOMINATIONAL REFUGEE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LOWELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Black Wellness & Prosperity Center ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HIGHWAY CITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HIDALGO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds READING AND BEYOND ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
- Who funds El Dorado Park CDC ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southwest Fresno Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds Jackson Community Development Corp ↗
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 · The Kresge Foundation · The California Endowment · Central California Food Bank · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · The California Wellness Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · Public Health Institute · Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center · The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inc · Possibility Labs
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 Fresno Metropolitan Ministry 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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