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Shamshoian Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k19 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLOVIS HILLS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $15,000 |
| THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,005 |
| FARAF | $3,200 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF | $3,000 |
| CENTRAL VALLEY COMM FOUNDATION | $2,600 |
| CALIFORNIA TEACHING FELLOWS FOUND | $1,750 |
| WELLBEING | $1,500 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $1,500 |
| BULLDOG FOUNDATION | $1,279 |
| FRESNO MISSION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $850 |
| BREAKING THE CHAINS | $500 |
| SAFE HARBOR HOMES AND SERVICES | $500 |
| ST PETER THE APOSTLE | $360 |
| HOLY TRINITY ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHU | $250 |
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 (FY20–21, $2k) 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 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 +32% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 9 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- CTCalifornia Teaching Fellows Foundation2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +231%
- FRFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +137%
- CWCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION3× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- NHNEW HARVEST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $31k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +38%
- HLHuntington Lake Volunteer Fire Departmentone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +6%
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 Central Valley Health Foundation (CVHF) is a California not-for-profit corporation. The Foundation was organized to coordinate the solicitation of contributions through its operations and to disburse such contributions, earnings, and…
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…
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 Rotary Club of Fresno's mission is to establish friendships, create networking opportunities and positively impact lives locally and around the world.
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
The primary purpose of Friends of the Kern County fair is to raise money for the benefit of the 15th district agricultural association and showcasing agricultural industries to the community.
Fresno Bully Rescue's purpose is to save bully breed dogs (American Staffordshire Terrier, American Pit Bull Terrier, American Bull Dogs, Bull Terrier, American Boxers, etc.) who are abandoned, abused or desingated to be euthanized at the…
Our mission is to advance the well-being of children, promote access to high quality pediatric health care, and ensure the long-term viability of childrens hospitals.
The Foundation's mission is to endeavor to support programs and projects that measurably improve the physical and emotional health and health, wholeness and hope is coupled with a vision to transform the well-being in Paradise, and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior League of Fresno Inc and the most unlike its peers is Armenian Wounded Heroes Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 64 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 Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds California Teaching Fellows Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Art of Life Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BULLDOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESNO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Huntington Lake Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds LA COMIDA GUILD ↗
- Who funds Martin Park Inc ↗
- Who funds Advance Armenia Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Light-House Recovery Program Inc ↗
- Who funds Central California Animal Disaster Team ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds La Visionaria Guild of Valley Childrens Healthcare ↗
- Who funds Poverello House ↗
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: Valley Children's Hospital · The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inc · California Fire Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Harlan Family Foundation · The Smittcamp Family Foundation · Community Hospitals of Central California · Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation · Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center · Gl Bruno Family Foundation · The Saladino Family 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 Shamshoian Family 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.