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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
9
States reached
$15k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

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.

01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2020 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k19 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$500
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS$15,000
BLUE FIRE WILDERNESS THERAPY$4,175
ST JOHN VIANNEY GUILD$2,500
ROTARY CLUB OF INCLINE VILLAGE$1,500
ORANGE COUNTY RESUCUE MISSION$1,100
NORTH LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE AUXILLARY$1,000
FIRST LIBERTY INST$1,000
ROTARY FOUNDATION$1,000
HOAG HOSPITAL FDN$600
MUSICAL THEATRE WEST$500
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$200
ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$200
Individual grant recipient$100
DC RESCUE MISSION$100
SHRINERS HOSPITAL$100
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 17%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
NY
NV
SD
CA
CO
VA
DC
TX
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$150k · 14 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2020, 7 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$150k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-4%

Still filing today

50%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthArts & CultureHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TE
    TAHOE EXPEDITION ACADEMY INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $14k · revenue +137%
  • NL
    NORTH LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +148%
  • KA
    KIDS AND HORSES INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MICHAEL'S ABBEY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • WE
    WESTCHESTER ELKS LODGE 2050
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • IH
    INCLINE HIGH SCHVOOL BOOSTER
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
4
Children's Healthcare of California

The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…

Health
5
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
6
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
7
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
8
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
9
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
10
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
11
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
12
Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoag Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

16 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. 16 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $237,230 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS: $49,718 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAIN…ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI: $36,750 · OtherST FRANCIS OF ASSISIST MICHAEL'S ABBEY: $10,000 · OtherST MICHAEL'S ABBEYMISCELLANEOUS: $9,210 · OtherMISCELLANEOUSST JOHN VIANNEY GUILD: $7,250 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF INCLINE VILLAGE: $6,900 · OtherST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL: $6,500 · Other+21 more: $26,975 · Other+21 moreTAHOE EXPEDITION ACADEMY INC: $13,700 · EducationNORTH LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY: $4,000 · HealthKIDS AND HORSES INC: $3,700 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,350 · HealthCruisin For a Cure: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthMUSICAL THEATRE WEST: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM: $1,100 · Arts & CultureOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $1,100 · Housing & ShelterJOHN TRACY CLINIC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $100 · Human Services
Philanthropy$237,230Other$153,303Education$13,700Health$12,150Arts & Culture$3,600Housing & Shelter$1,100Human Services$1,100

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 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 budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $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
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE EXPEDITION ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY ↗
  • Who funds KIDS AND HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSICAL THEATRE WEST ↗
  • Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Veterans Guest House Inc ↗
  • Who funds BALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Cruisin For a Cure ↗
  • Who funds JOHN TRACY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fuller Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fuller Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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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