· Private foundation
Hattie Givens Testamentary Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k14 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOSEMITE LODGE 99 SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $28,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL OF SACRAMENTO | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CALIF MASONIC FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MERCED COUNTY FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| MASONIC HOME ENDOWMENT FUND | $2,000 |
| CASA - MERCED COUNTY | $1,200 |
| FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MERCED | $1,000 |
| MERCED HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL | $1,000 |
| HINDS HOSPICE OF MERCEDMARIPOSA | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| CHOWCHILLA AMERICAN LEGION POST #148 | $800 |
| VALLEY CRISIS CENTER | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2023, 26 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YLYOSEMITE LODGE #99 SCHOLARSHIP FUND7× · 2017–2023 · $163k · revenue +28% · 79% of their budget
- COCENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT3× · 2018–2020 · $8k · revenue +134%
- MRMERCED RESCUE MISSION5× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +520%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
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.
To assist and promote the educational services of Merced community college.
The mission of the Merced LGBTQ+ Alliance is to advocate for the interests of the LGBTQ+ community within Merced County. We celebrate our diversity and advocate for justice and opportunities for members of our vulnerable community. We…
MERCED RESCUE MISSION: MISSION, VISION AND PURPOSE:Our MISSION is to exhibit the love and caring of Jesus Christ; transforming lives for those in our county who are in physcial and spirtual need.Our VISION is to be the hands, feet and…
To serve, advocate, and collaborate for those in need by developing innovative strategies for self-empowerment.
We mobilize the caring power of our community to advance health stability and opportunity for all.
Provide educational grants and scholarships
To Provide a benefit to the public by providing work related training and job placement services to low income adults and youth (ages 16-24 yrs).
The merced county deputy sheriff's association is dedicated to supporting the sworn and non-sworn employees of the merced county sheriff's deparment.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 YOSEMITE LODGE #99 SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds THE MERCED COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MERCED RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCED COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MERCED COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Merced County · Stewart Family Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hattie Givens Testamentary Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hattie Givens Testamentary Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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