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Fuller Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2020
20
Grants FY2020
19
Organizations funded FY2020
63%
First-time grantees FY2020
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100% of Fuller Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Fuller Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $30k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
6
’18
10
’19
8
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$500
Largest grant, FY2020
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 19
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
9
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 63% of the organizations Fuller Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202019$29k63%
FY201919$66k42%
FY201813$51k38%
FY201714$38kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$237kReligion$107kEducation$23kHealth$22kInternational$9kArts & Culture$5kHousing & Shelter$4kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
NY
NV
SD
CA
CO
VA
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tahoe Expedition Academy Inc$13,70020%
St Francis High School$6,5003n/a
Kagondo St Joseph Hospital Foundation$4,6002n/a
North Lake Tahoe Community Health Care Auxiliary$4,0004n/a
Kids and Horses Inc$3,70031%
Musical Theatre West$2,50020%
Hoag Hospital Foundation$2,35030%
Veterans Guest House Inc$2,00020%
Balboa Island Museum$1,10020%
Orange County Rescue Mission Inc$1,10010%
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All grantees of Fuller Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tahoe Expedition Academy Inc$13,70020%
St Francis High School$6,5003n/a
Kagondo St Joseph Hospital Foundation$4,6002n/a
North Lake Tahoe Community Health Care Auxiliary$4,0004n/a
Kids and Horses Inc$3,70031%
Musical Theatre West$2,50020%
Hoag Hospital Foundation$2,35030%
Veterans Guest House Inc$2,00020%
Balboa Island Museum$1,10020%
Orange County Rescue Mission Inc$1,10010%
First Liberty Institute$1,00010%
Cruisin For a Cure$1,0001n/a
City of Newport Beach$1,0001n/a
John Tracy Clinic$1,00010%
American Diabetes Association$1,0001n/a
Orange Catholic Foundation$1,0001n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children$10010%
Covenant House$10010%

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($136k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fuller Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTahoe Expedition Academy Inc: $13,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKids and Horses Inc: $3,700 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMusical Theatre West: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHoag Hospital Foundation: $2,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Guest House Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBalboa Island Museum: $1,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Liberty Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Tracy Clinic: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About Fuller Family Foundation

How much does Fuller Family Foundation give?
Fuller Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $29,525 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Fuller Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (56%), Religion (25%), Education (5%).
Who are Fuller Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Tahoe Expedition Academy Inc ($14k), St Francis High School ($7k), Kagondo St Joseph Hospital Foundation ($5k).
Does Fuller Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fuller Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fuller Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Endowment Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Fuller Family Foundation based?
Fuller Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 41 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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