· Private foundation
Leon S Peters Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $357k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $663k
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $400,000 |
| COMMUNITY MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| FRESNO STATE FOUNDATION | $205,000 |
| CALIFORNIA HOME FOR THE AGED DBA CALIFORNIA ARMENIAN HOME | $158,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO | $60,000 |
| STATE CENTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT | $55,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BIG FRESNO FAIR | $55,000 |
| BREAK THE BARRIERS | $50,000 |
| HINDS HOSPICE | $35,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSCIAL THEATERWORKS | $31,200 |
| MARJORIE MASON CENTER | $25,750 |
| POVERELLO HOUSE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.0M) 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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $393k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +198%
- VCVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL7× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +76%
- BTBreak the Barriers Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- OOOFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $200k
- FFForward Fresno Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0% · 41% of their budget
- CCCOMMUNITY CANCER INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $100k
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.
Fresno community hospital and medical center's (fch&mc's) exists to better the lives of all those we serve
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
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 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.
Valley Health Team, Inc. was established in 1973 for the purpose of providing accessible comprehensive, quality primary health care and additional services to the people in the communities we serve in a culturally and linguistically…
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 foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives
Connect, engage and celebrate alumni, students and friends of sacramento state while building lifelong relationships that support the future of our university.
To be a supporting organization of the fresno rescue mission, inc. acting as a trustee in receiving, investing, managing, administrating, and distributing designated funds for the ministries of the mission. also, to invest and develop…
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,…
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 82 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 COMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Break the Barriers Inc ↗
- Who funds Hinds Hospice ↗
- 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 FRIENDS of the BIG FRESNO FAIR ↗
- Who funds SAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds FresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA HOME FOR THE AGED INC DBA CALIFORNIA ARMENIAN HOME ↗
- Who funds Forward Fresno Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc ↗
- Who funds PAIN PARENTS AND ADDICTS IN NEED ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Central California South Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA BLOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds Friends of The Historic Kingsburg Depot ↗
- Who funds FRESNO ART MUSEUM ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leon S Peters Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leon S Peters Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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