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United Way of Fresno and Madera Counties

United Way Fresno and Madera Counties creates paths to prosperity.

$748k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$418k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $121k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $192k
  • $250k+1 grant · $418k
$17,340
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%Community Action Partnership: $10k → 22%Binational of Central Califor: $192k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Central Valley Partnership

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…

Civil Rights
2
Center for Community Advocacy

Provide Educational Programs, Health Services and Legal Services to Farm Workers at housing sites and throughout the Salinas Valley and promote improved living conditions.

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3
Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno

Building Indigenous power through collective action to achieve economic, social and cultural development.

International
4
Central Valley Foster Care Inc

Operation of a foster family care agency

Human Services
5
Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative

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.

Human Services
6
Community Impact Central Valley

To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.

Health
7
California Alliance of Caregivers

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…

Health
8
Community Initiatives for Collective Impact

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 we…

Community Improvement
9
Central Valley Childrens Services Network

To provide child care education, information and technical assistance to parents, community professionals and child care providers.

Human Services
10
La Cooperativa Campesina de California

Improve the lives of California's farmworkers, their families, and rural communities through advocacy and service.

Housing & Shelter
11
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
12
Central Valley Journalism Collaborative

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.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resources for Independence Central Valley; 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.
03the grantee network

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 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Childrens Movement of Fresno County: $418,122 · Youth DevelopmentChildrens Movement of Fresno CountyBinational of Central California: $192,204 · Human ServicesBinational of Central Californ…COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MADERA COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesEducation and Leadership Foundation: $37,625 · EducationEducation …CALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION: $31,250 · EducationCALIFORNIA…Centro de Unidad popular Benito Juarez Inc: $17,340 · OtherMadera Coalition of Community Justice: $9,000 · OtherResources for Independence Central Valley: $7,500 · OtherFRESNO INTERDENOMINATIONAL REFUGEE MINISTRIES: $15,153 · ReligionCENTRAL VALLEY OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Employment
Youth Development$418,122Human Services$202,204Education$68,875Other$33,840Religion$15,153Employment$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildrens Movement of Fresno County: $418,122 over 1y, 38% of budgetEducation and Leadership Foundation: $37,625 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION: $31,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRESNO INTERDENOMINATIONAL REFUGEE MINISTRIES: $15,153 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MADERA COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL VALLEY OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetResources for Independence Central Valley: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Sierra Health Foundat…Public Health Institu…Kaiser Foundation Hos…
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program ManagementCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Public Health Institute · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Fresno and Madera Counties funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Fresno and Madera Counties. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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