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The Fansler Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 35
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$32M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Fansler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$1.1M32%
FY202426$1.3M27%
FY202327$1.5M22%
FY202232$1.5M22%
FY202124$1.2M8%
FY202023$1.2M9%
FY201930$1.4M17%
FY201835$1.4M49%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.9MYouth Development$2.0MHuman Services$2.0MEducation$1.9MHousing & Shelter$692kCrime & Legal$531kFood & Nutrition$482kRecreation & Sports$148kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Fansler Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc: $735,786 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetCentral California Food Bank: $406,302 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMarjaree Mason Center Inc: $404,641 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCare Fresno Inc: $358,282 over 9y, 21% of budgetExceptional Parents Unlimited Inc: $278,530 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBreak the Barriers Inc: $260,105 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetFamily Leadership Inc: $254,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetDown Syndrome Association of Central California: $181,250 over 6y, 31% of budgetFresno Rescue Mission Inc: $178,339 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetDeaf and Hard of Hearing Service Center: $144,793 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetThe Painted Turtle: $97,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHinds Hospice: $91,767 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCalifornia Scottish Rite Foundation: $90,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetValley Teen Ranch: $84,640 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $80,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFresno Child Abuse Prevention Council Inc: $67,315 over 1y, 21% of budgetVisalia Rescue Mission: $62,160 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWings Advocacy Fresno: $60,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetSpecial Olympics Northern California Inc: $47,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Valley Justice Coalition: $46,430 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetAdventure Risk Challenge: $45,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Hospitals of Central California Foundation: $30,357 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHappy Trails Riding Academy: $27,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCity Without Orphans: $23,950 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetAlisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation: $22,250 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHighway City Community Development Inc: $19,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGet Focused Stay Focused Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetScouting America Sequoia Council: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Isnardi FoundationCA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to The Fansler Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fansler 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.

About The Fansler Foundation

How much does The Fansler Foundation give?
The Fansler Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $1,146,687 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Fansler Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Youth Development (19%), Human Services (19%).
Who are The Fansler Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc ($736k), Central California Food Bank ($406k), Marjaree Mason Center Inc ($405k).
Does The Fansler Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Fansler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Fansler Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Isnardi Foundation, Valley Children's Hospital, Leon S Peters Foundation.
Where is The Fansler Foundation based?
The Fansler Foundation is based in CA.

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 77 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-PF 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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