· Private foundation
The Saint Joseph 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FRESNO | $25,000 |
| SAINT ANTHONYS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CENCAL YOUTH SPORTS | $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 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 61% of The Saint Joseph Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 39%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno8× · 2017–2025 · $313k · revenue +64%
- PHPoverello House4× · 2022–2025 · $236k · revenue +144%
- 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
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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 29 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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Saint Joseph Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Saint Joseph Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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