· Private foundation
Leon S Peters Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k14 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $323k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $590k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $195,000 |
| FORWARD FRESNO FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| MARJORIE MASON CENTER | $60,000 |
| STATE CENTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT | $55,000 |
| BREAK THE BARRIERS | $50,000 |
| HINDS HOSPICE | $45,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FRESNO COUNTY | $30,000 |
| POVERELLO HOUSE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSCIAL THEATERWORKS | $25,000 |
| SAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY | $20,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $20,000 |
| PARENTS & ADDICTS IN NEED | $20,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA SOUTH | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $917k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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 +41% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k 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
- CHCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +198%
- VCVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL6× · 2017–2023 · $905k · revenue +55%
- HHHinds Hospice8× · 2017–2024 · $362k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- OOOFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $200k
- CCCOMMUNITY CANCER INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $25k
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 Rotary Club of Fresno's mission is to establish friendships, create networking opportunities and positively impact lives locally and around the world.
Enhancing and supporting private sector business
To promote the science of medicine.
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.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
We, saint agnes medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint agnes medical center is a member of trinity health.
To foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives
Equip young people for life and service for jesus christ through biblical foundations, christ-like character development, and academic preparation in partnership with the home and local church.
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…
Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…
Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…
Connect, engage and celebrate alumni, students and friends of sacramento state while building lifelong relationships that support the future of our university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Hospitals of Central California Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 78 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 COMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hinds Hospice ↗
- Who funds Break the Barriers Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Poverello House ↗
- Who funds MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Forward Fresno Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS of the BIG FRESNO FAIR ↗
- Who funds PAIN PARENTS AND ADDICTS IN NEED ↗
- Who funds FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Central California South Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA BLOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of The Historic Kingsburg Depot ↗
- Who funds San Joaquin College of Law ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable · Educational Employees Credit Union · Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation · Briscoe Family Foundation · Resnick Foundation · The Smittcamp Family Foundation · Wayne H Towne Family Foundation · Daniel R Martin Family Foundation · Valley Children's Hospital · The Richard & Althea Johanson Family Foundation · Isnardi Foundation · The Fansler Foundation
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 Leon S Peters 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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