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Lyles Foundation A Charitable Trust

To provide support for certain activities of the central valley community foundation, an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.

$675k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$14MEducation$8.6MHuman Services$1.0MYouth Development$500kPublic Benefit$250k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$90,550
Median grant
2
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys & Girls Club$500,000
CENTRAL VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUN$90,550
Purdue Foundation$84,858
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Marjaree Mason Center Inc: $1.0M → 19%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.
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
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
California State University Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
2
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
3
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

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…

Education
4
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…

Education
5
Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation

To actively promote, pursue and steward private support for the advancement of california state university, fullerton.

Philanthropy
6
The Agricultural Foundation of California State University Fresno

Agricultural education at california state university, fresno.

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7
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
8
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
9
California Coast Credit Union

California coast credit union (credit union) is a cooperative, organized for the purpose of promoting thrift and savings among its members, creating a source of credit for them at rates of interest set by the board of directors, and…

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10
Fresno Chamber of Commerce Greater Fresno Area Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing and supporting private sector business

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11
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
12
Fresno Pacific University Foundation

Fresno pacific university foundation exists for the purpose of the advancement and support of education through providing assistance to and benefits for fresno pacific university, its students, faculty, and programs.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marjaree Mason Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Purdue International Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $13,453,880 · PhilanthropyCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation+2 more: $294,526 · PhilanthropyFRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $3,000,000 · OtherFRESNO PACIFIC UNIVER…PURDUE INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,383,267 · OtherPURDUE INTERNATIONAL …+2 more: $250,000 · Other+2 moreCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $4,200,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UN…MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc: $500,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$13,748,406Other$4,633,267Education$4,200,000Human Services$1,000,000Youth Development$500,000

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 budgetCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $13,453,880 over 8y, 27% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $4,200,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $3,000,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPURDUE INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,383,267 over 8y, 82% of budgetMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $157,762 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFresno for Clean Safe Neighborhood Parks A Coalition of Parents: $150,000 over 1y, 9.0% 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.

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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Lyles Foundation A Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lyles Foundation A Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    How do I get to Lyles Foundation A Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Lyles Foundation A Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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