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United Way of Fresno and Madera Counties
United Way Fresno and Madera Counties creates paths to prosperity.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $192k
- $250k+1 grant · $418k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Childrens Movement | $418,122 |
| Binational of Central Califor | $192,204 |
| Education Leadership Foundati | $37,625 |
| California Farmworker Foundat | $31,250 |
| Centro Unidad Popular Benito | $17,340 |
| Fresno Interdenominational Re | $15,153 |
| Central Valley Opportunity Ce | $10,000 |
| Community Action Partnership | $10,000 |
| Madera Coalition for Communit | $9,000 |
| Resource for Independence Cen | $7,500 |
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 (FY23–23, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 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.
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.
The Central Valley Partnership (CVP) conducts and collaborates in training initiatives, including community organizer training, education on labor history and issues, messaging workshops, etc., aimed at fostering the establishment of new…
Provide Educational Programs, Health Services and Legal Services to Farm Workers at housing sites and throughout the Salinas Valley and promote improved living conditions.
Operation of a foster family care agency
To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.
To serve as the leading immigrant integration organization in the Central Valley, dedicated to ensuring the full participation of immigrants in building strong, vibrant, and inclusive communities.
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 provide education and resources to advocate for worker rights, increase socioeconomic and health equity and civic participation of our underserved and overlooked communities of the Central San Joaquin Valley.
Our mission is to join diverse people, ideas, and resources to address the most pressing social and environmental justice priorities. We believe that the community concerns of Californias San Joaquin Valley (SJV) can only be addressed if…
To provide child care education, information and technical assistance to parents, community professionals and child care providers.
We grow local news for and from the Valley to help you live a healthy and informed life. We connect Central Valley communities with the support needed to grow and sustain local journalism.
To serve youth in the fresno county juvenile justice and foster care systems
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resources for Independence Central Valley and the most unlike its peers is Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries. 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 10 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 Childrens Movement of Fresno County ↗
- Who funds Binational of Central California ↗
- Who funds Education and Leadership Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESNO INTERDENOMINATIONAL REFUGEE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VALLEY OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MADERA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Madera Coalition of Community Justice ↗
- Who funds Resources for Independence Central Valley ↗
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: Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Public Health Institute · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
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 United Way of Fresno and Madera Counties 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.