· Public charity
Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation
The Foundation was established to raise funds for the purpose of contributing to charitable and educational organizations in the local, national, and international community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $172,482 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $178,482 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Marjaree Mason Center | $100,000 |
| Poverello House | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Break the Barriers | $12,482 |
| Lowell Community Development | $10,000 |
| Gracebound | $10,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +102% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k 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
- PHPoverello House5× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +283%
- RCRotary Club of Fresno2× · 2019–2020 · $31k · revenue +9%
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc3× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- FRFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INCone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -53%
- RHREADING HEARTone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- SAStoryland and Playland Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +51%
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.
To foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives
To lift up and restore pride in the sw fresno community through providing pathways to entrepreneurship and homeownership, creating safer, cleaner, and vibrant neighborhoods where residents thrive.
Enhancing and supporting private sector business
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.
The organization strives to promote fair housing opportunities and to encourage home ownership by providing education, counseling and financial services to persons seeking home ownership, with a special emphasis toward low to moderate…
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…
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…
Access plus capital is nonprofit small business lender and service provider with the mission to eliminate economic barriers to financial success through fair and equitable community investment.
Operation of a foster family care agency
The mission of Family Services is to help children, adults, and families throughout Tulare County heal from violence and thrive in healthy relationships. Family Services will accomplish this mission through direct services, advocacy,…
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
To provide dispute resolution services to the people of Fresno, Kern, Tulare, Merced & Solano Counties using competent, well trained staff and volunteers; create awareness of appropriate dispute resolution and consumer education through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fresno Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lowell Community Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 24 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 Poverello House ↗
- Who funds MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Fresno ↗
- Who funds SCOUTING AMERICA SEQUOIA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds READING HEART ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties ↗
- Who funds Storyland and Playland Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS of the BIG FRESNO FAIR ↗
- Who funds Break the Barriers Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds LOWELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST FRESNO HEALTH CARE COALITION DBA WEST FRESNO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Light-House Recovery Program Inc ↗
- Who funds Forward Fresno Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Gracebound 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.
Open a dossier: Leon S Peters Foundation · Valley Children's Hospital · Educational Employees Credit Union · Carl and Lulu Mitchell Family Foundation · Isnardi Foundation · Sieg & Doris Fischer FDN-AGY-MAIN · Briscoe Family Foundation · The Smittcamp Family Foundation · The Fansler Foundation · Gl Bruno Family Foundation · The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inc · Living Legacy 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 Rotary Club of Fresno 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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