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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.

$178k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Housing & Shelter$163kHuman Services$122kYouth Development$85kFood & Nutrition$42kCommunity Improvement$41kHealth$30kEducation$20kCrime & Legal$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $172,482, the rows itemized in this filing. The $178,482 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Marjaree Mason Center$100,000
Poverello House$25,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Break the Barriers$12,482
Gracebound$10,000
Lowell Community Development$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%Break the Barriers: $12k → 19%Marjaree Mason Center: $100k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 95%.

Rotary Club of Fresno Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$279k · 7 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
13

Total granted

$279k
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
0%

Still filing today

86%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PH
    Poverello House
    5× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +294%
  • RC
    Rotary Club of Fresno
    2× · 2019–2020 · $31k · revenue +9%
  • SA
    SCOUTING AMERICA SEQUOIA COUNCIL
    3× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • FR
    FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -53%
  • RH
    READING HEART
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • SA
    Storyland and Playland Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +51%
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.

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
Fresno Building Healthy Communities

To foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives

Community Improvement
2
Southwest Fresno Development Corporation

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.

—
3
Fresno Chamber of Commerce Greater Fresno Area Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing and supporting private sector business

—
4
Central Valley Business Federation

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.

Community Improvement
5
Community Housing Council of Fresno

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Fresno City Center Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
Fresnoland Media

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Fresno Community Development Financial Institution dba Access Plus Capital

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.

Public Benefit
9
Central Valley Foster Care Inc

Operation of a foster family care agency

Human Services
10
Family Services of Tulare County Inc

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,…

Human Services
11
California Housing Partner Corporation

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.

Unclassified
12
Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fresno Rescue Mission Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 24 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Poverello House: $122,500 · Housing & ShelterPoverello HouseFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INCGracebound Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterGracebound IncLOWELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterLOWELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR…MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesMARJAREE MASON CENTER …Break the Barriers Inc: $12,482 · Human ServicesBreak the Barriers IncSCOUTING AMERICA SEQUOIA COUNCIL: $30,000 · OtherSCOUTING AMERICA SEQUOIA COUNCILIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientForward Fresno Foundation Inc: $10,000 · OtherForward Fresno Foundation IncTHE SALVATION ARMY: $10,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY CARE: $10,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY CAREFresno Sheriff Memorial: $9,000 · OtherREADING HEART: $20,000 · OtherREADING HEARTCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties: $18,058 · OtherCourt Appointed Special Advocates o…Storyland and Playland Inc: $17,000 · OtherStoryland and Playland IncFRIENDS of the BIG FRESNO FAIR: $12,500 · OtherFRIENDS of the BIG FRESNO FAIRSAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST: $12,000 · OtherSAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERV…The Light-House Recovery Program Inc: $10,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthVALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthWEST FRESNO HEALTH CARE COALITION DBA WEST FRESNO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · HealthRotary Club of Fresno: $31,126 · Community ImprovementBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc: $24,500 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $22,370 · Food & Nutrition
Housing & Shelter$162,500Human Services$112,482Other$178,558Health$40,000Community Improvement$31,126Youth Development$24,500Food & Nutrition$22,370

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 budgetPoverello House: $122,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRotary Club of Fresno: $31,126 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetSCOUTING AMERICA SEQUOIA COUNCIL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc: $24,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $22,370 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREADING HEART: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties: $18,058 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetStoryland and Playland Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFRIENDS of the BIG FRESNO FAIR: $12,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGracebound Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetForward Fresno Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetThe Light-House Recovery Program Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST FRESNO HEALTH CARE COALITION DBA WEST FRESNO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Leon S Peters Foundat…Valley Children's Hos…Educational Employees…Carl and Lulu Mitchel…Isnardi FoundationSieg & Doris Fischer …Briscoe Family Founda…The Smittcamp Family …The Fansler FoundationGl Bruno Family Found…The Edward M and Jean…Living Legacy Foundat…
Leon S Peters FoundationCA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation 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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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