· Private foundation
The Fansler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $500
- $10k–50k8 grants · $199k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $947k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO | $150,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $140,236 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $128,496 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA | $115,571 |
| MARJAREE MASON CENTER | $96,062 |
| HEART OF THE HORSE | $83,000 |
| FRESNO COUNCIL ON CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION | $67,315 |
| CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK | $66,302 |
| SAN JOAQUIN MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL | $50,200 |
| BUDDHIST TZU CHI MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION | $39,700 |
| CARE FRESNO | $36,312 |
| HAPPY TRAILS RIDING ACADEMY | $27,000 |
| DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING SERVICES | $25,993 |
| CALIFORNIA SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION | $23,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 6 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $736k · revenue +84%
- CCCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK7× · 2019–2025 · $406k · revenue +92%
MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC4× · 2017–2025 · $405k · revenue +210%
Funded once
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTHY SYSTEMone grant, 2022 · $142k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2023 · $132k
- HSHEALTHY SMILESone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
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.
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…
To support, train, and employ people who are blind or low vision and increase their opportunities to lead an independent and fulfilling life.
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,…
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…
The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.
California family life center's mission is to provide safety, comfort and healing to children suffering abuse and abandonment; to teach love and trust; to instill self-esteem, values and hope for the future - and in so doing, assist…
Our mission is to end child abuse and neglect through educating, advocating, and counseling to empower and strengthen children and families. Our vision is that all children live in a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment.
Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities
The center's mission is to help individuals with developmental disabilities, and children at risk, to reach their goals.
To foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives
None
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 77 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CARE FRESNO 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 THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds Hinds Hospice ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Valley Teen Ranch ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds FRESNO CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds VISALIA RESCUE MISSION ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fansler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fansler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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