· Private foundation
The Saint Joseph Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POVERELLO HOUSE | $85,000 |
| SAN JOAQUIN MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL | $31,400 |
| BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS | $30,000 |
| CAPUCHIN MISSIONARIES | $30,000 |
| HOLY CROSS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL | $26,000 |
| CENCAL YOUTH SPORTS | $25,000 |
| SAINT ANTHONYS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FRESNO | $25,000 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $18,000 |
| LIVE AGAIN FRESNO | $15,000 |
| SAINT HELENS SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,100 |
| PHILANTHROPY INSPIRE BY THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY | $7,500 |
| FRESNO ARTS COUNCIL | $3,000 |
| SAINT AGNES FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $407k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 61% of The Saint Joseph Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 39% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k 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
- CCCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno8× · 2017–2025 · $313k · revenue +64%
- PHPoverello House4× · 2022–2025 · $236k · revenue +137%
- LALIVE AGAIN FRESNO4× · 2020–2025 · $94k · revenue +470%
Funded once
- NHNAZARETH HOUSE FRESNOone grant, 2021 · $25k
- DODIOCESE OF FRESNO- MISIONERAS EUCARISTICAS DE MARIA INMACULADAone grant, 2021 · $25k
- DODIOCESE OF FRESNO - PASTORAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Our mission is to reach out and provide assistance to anyone in need in our community, especially the poor and disadvantaged. we offer health and social service programs that contribute to the individual's freedom and independence, while…
Driving volunteer efforts for the State of CA via communities
Hands of Hope works to enhance the quality of life in the Yuba-Sutter area by: Providing core support services to the homeless; Reintegrating the homeless within our community; Engaging the community to respond to the challenge of…
To meet the needs of struggling families living in poverty.
The organization works to end rape and sexual violence and empower survivors while supporting safe, consensual relationships.
Providing physical, emotional, practical and spiritual support for people and families who are dealing with life-threatening illness, the dying process, death and or bereavement of a loved one.
City of Refuge Sacramento, a community-based organization, exists to support people living in marginalized communities of Sacramento and to empower their ability to create a personal transformation that will lead to a healthy and thriving…
To improve the quality of life and strengthen individuals youth and families through services and activities.
Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.
Access California Services is a culturally sensitive community-based organization dedicated to empowering underserved populations, with a focus on Arab- American & Muslim- American communities. We strive to enhance quality of life & foster…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Inspired By the Needs of Our Community 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.
9 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. 9 of the 29 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 Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno ↗
- Who funds Poverello House ↗
- Who funds LIVE AGAIN FRESNO ↗
- Who funds The Heart of the Horse Therapy Ranch ↗
- Who funds CENCAL YOUTH SPORTS ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY INSPIRED BY THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Fresno Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds RAMBIS CHARITABLE GROUP INC ↗
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.
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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 Saint Joseph 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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