· Private foundation
Gar and Esther Tootelian Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA SPECIALTY CROPS COUNCIL | $2,700 |
| CSU FRESNO AG ONE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL VALLEY PBS | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 93% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- FCFresnos Chaffee Zoo Corporation4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +72%
- CFCenter for Land-Based Learning4× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +238%
- CSCalifornia Specialty Crops Council3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- VPValley Public Television Incone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +9%
- FAFAIRMONT AG FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue +101%
- FGFRESNO GRIZZLIES COMMUNITY FUNDone grant, 2017 · $55k
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.
The primary purpose of Friends of the Kern County fair is to raise money for the benefit of the 15th district agricultural association and showcasing agricultural industries to the community.
To provide support for the 23rd agriculture disctrict contra costa county fairgrounds.
The specific and primary purposes for which this corporation is organized is to create and publish high-quality policy-focused journalism to educate the public on issues affecting Central California, and to do all things appropriate to…
To increase awareness and understanding of agriculture among california educators and students.
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
Support SFSU Sierra Nevada Field Campus
To educate and support the agricultural community.
Assist the california state fair and other agricultural ventures in the state of california in bettering the agricultural assets in the state.
The mission of the Friends of the Calaveras Sheriff's Office (FOCSO) is to support the Calaveras County Sheriff's Office by providing funds for programs, projects, and equipment through events, fundraising, networking, and donations from…
Protect, manage and preserve lands and wildlife having unique natural resources and cultural qualities within and near the foothills of the sierra nevada range.
To represent, protect and advance the social, economic and educational interest of the farmers in kern county, california.
Fair Trade Fresno promotes and sells fair trade goods that support low-income artisans around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fresnos Chaffee Zoo Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Fairmont Ag Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 25 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 Fresnos Chaffee Zoo Corporation ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Valley Public Television Inc ↗
- Who funds FAIRMONT AG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Center for Land-Based Learning ↗
- Who funds FRESNO SHERIFFS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds California Specialty Crops Council ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FAIR INC ↗
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.
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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 Gar and Esther Tootelian Charitable Foundation 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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