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Fresno Metropolitan Ministry

Learning, connecting and engaging to achieve healthy people and healthy places.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$444k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$2.5MHealth$2.3MHuman Services$2.3MFood & Nutrition$1.1MYouth Development$60kSocial Science$15k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $713k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$169,466
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Fresno Center: $542k → 19%The Fresno Center: $506k → 19%The Fresno Center: $365k → 19%Highway City Comm Dev Corp: $71k → 19%Highway City Comm Dev Corp: $16k → 19%Exceptional Parents Unlimited: $347k → 19%Exceptional Parents Unlimited: $293k → 19%Exceptional Parents Unlimited: $234k → 19%FEOC - AAC: $282k → 19%FEOC - AAC: $170k → 19%Every Neighborhood Part: $169k → 19%Every Neighborhood Part: $93k → 19%Every Neighborhood Part: $14k → 19%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 14 repeat orgs$344k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$8.0M
$243k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+266%

Still filing today

86%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • CL
    Cultiva La Salud
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +82%
  • EP
    EXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $874k · revenue +29%
  • FI
    FRESNO INTERDENOMINATIONAL REFUGEE MINISTRIES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $843k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $95k · revenue +9%
  • RA
    READING AND BEYOND
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -56%
  • ED
    El Dorado Park CDCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue ×11
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
Center for Community Advocacy

Provide Educational Programs, Health Services and Legal Services to Farm Workers at housing sites and throughout the Salinas Valley and promote improved living conditions.

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2
Fresno Community Development Financial Institution dba Access Plus Capital

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.

Public Benefit
3
Central Valley Partnership

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…

Civil Rights
4
Fresno Building Healthy Communities

To foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives

Community Improvement
5
Valley Health Team Inc

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…

Health
6
Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Our mission is to strengthen the regions business community by providing education, technical assistance, access to capital, procurement facilitation and workforce development training.

Community Improvement
7
Community Housing Council of Fresno

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
California Donor Table

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…

Civil Rights
9
Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation

To promote education and self-sufficiency through economic development that strengthens our community.

Community Improvement
10
Central Valley Business Federation

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.

Community Improvement
11
Community Impact Central Valley

To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.

Health
12
Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno

Building Indigenous power through collective action to achieve economic, social and cultural development.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 23 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FRESNO CENTER: $1,412,915 · Human ServicesTHE FRESNO CENTEREXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED INC: $873,873 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED INCFresno County Economic Opportunities Commission: $451,916 · Human ServicesFresno County Economic Opportunities Commi…EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $276,737 · Human ServicesEVERY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP+1 more: $86,905 · Human ServicesCentro La Familia Advocacy Services INC: $984,540 · OtherCentro La Familia Advocacy S…The Urban Footprint: $791,667 · OtherThe Urban FootprintSAINT REST BAPTIST CHURCH: $124,060 · OtherSAINT REST BAPTIST CHURCHLOWELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $113,171 · OtherLOWELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT…+3 more: $93,461 · OtherCultiva La Salud: $1,418,448 · HealthCultiva La SaludVALLEY CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $298,435 · HealthVALLEY CENTER FOR THE B…FRESNO INTERDENOMINATIONAL REFUGEE MINISTRIES: $843,131 · ReligionFRESNO INTE…CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $223,623 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $95,182 · Food & NutritionBlack Wellness & Prosperity Center: $101,092 · Community ImprovementEl Dorado Park CDC: $24,500 · Community ImprovementCHINATOWN FRESNO FOUNDATION: $19,500 · Community ImprovementJackson Community Development Corp: $10,000 · Community ImprovementHIDALGO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $62,087 · Youth DevelopmentREADING AND BEYOND: $59,663 · Youth Development
Human Services$3,102,346Other$2,106,899Health$1,716,883Religion$843,131Food & Nutrition$318,805Community Improvement$155,092Youth Development$121,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCultiva La Salud: $1,418,448 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE FRESNO CENTER: $1,412,915 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCentro La Familia Advocacy Services INC: $984,540 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED INC: $873,873 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetFRESNO INTERDENOMINATIONAL REFUGEE MINISTRIES: $843,131 over 2y, 16% of budgetFresno County Economic Opportunities Commission: $451,916 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $298,435 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetEVERY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $276,737 over 3y, 18% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $223,623 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOWELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $113,171 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetBlack Wellness & Prosperity Center: $101,092 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $95,182 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIGHWAY CITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $86,905 over 2y, 25% of budgetHIDALGO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $62,087 over 2y, 45% of budgetREADING AND BEYOND: $59,663 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $58,938 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHINATOWN FRESNO FOUNDATION: $19,500 over 1y, 30% of budgetSouthwest Fresno Development Corporation: $19,500 over 1y, 7.3% 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.

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…The Kresge FoundationThe California Endowm…Central California Fo…Sierra Health Foundat…The California Wellne…The James Irvine Foun…Sierra Health Foundat…Public Health Institu…Fresno Community Hosp…The Edward M and Jean…Possibility Labs
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA29.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Fresno Metropolitan Ministry funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fresno Metropolitan Ministry. 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 Fresno Metropolitan Ministry?

    Find your warmest path to Fresno Metropolitan Ministry 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 23 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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