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The Fansler Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $337k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $905k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO | $150,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $136,742 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $114,439 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY | $108,376 |
| MARJAREE MASON CENTER | $88,579 |
| HEART OF THE HORSE | $77,000 |
| CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK | $65,000 |
| FRESNO COUNCIL ON CHILD ABUSE | $63,315 |
| EXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED | $52,000 |
| TZU CHI MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SAN JOAQUIN MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL | $49,600 |
| EASTER SEALS | $44,500 |
| WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES | $40,000 |
| CAREFRESNO | $35,320 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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 +51% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 7 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k 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
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $736k · revenue +84%
- CCCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK6× · 2019–2024 · $340k · revenue +92%
- CFCARE FRESNO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $322k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTHY SYSTEMone grant, 2022 · $142k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2023 · $132k
- HSHEALTHY SMILESone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…
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,…
To support, train, and employ people who are blind or low vision and increase their opportunities to lead an independent and fulfilling life.
To foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives
To advance and advocate for an equitable early childhood support system for all California families by working at the intersection of research, programs, and policy in partnership with member Child Care Resource & Referral agencies (R&Rs)…
To provide life long professional services to support all people with hearing or communication challenges in achieving their goals.
Solano Family & Children's Services promotes and advocates for the well-being of children, their families, and child care providers by offering access to a variety of child care resources.
With assistance of volunteers from the community and faith groups, the organization works to assist homeless children and their families to achieve sustainable independence, while offering hope, compassion, and preserving individual…
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…
Operation of a foster family care agency
The Organization provides shelter, meals, clothing and counseling for victims of domestic violence, housing crisis, and/or poverty.
Children's law center of california (clc) provides legal representation for children and youth impacted by abuse and neglect. we advocate for our clients by supporting families; fighting for reunification, permanence, educational…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marjaree Mason Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 71 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 Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CARE FRESNO INC ↗
- Who funds MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds Break the Barriers Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hinds Hospice ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Valley Teen Ranch ↗
- Who funds VISALIA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds WINGS ADVOCACY FRESNO ↗
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: Isnardi Foundation · Valley Children's Hospital · Leon S Peters Foundation · Briscoe Family Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation · Sieg & Doris Fischer FDN-AGY-MAIN · Aetna Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 The Fansler 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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