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Valley Children's Hospital

To provide high quality comprehensive healthcare services to children regardless of their ability to pay and to continuously improve the health and well-being of children.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$975k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$68MHuman Services$753kFood & Nutrition$150kPhilanthropy$150kEducation$127kEnvironment$115kInternational$60kHousing & Shelter$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $1,398,597 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,893,633 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $495,036 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $171k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $223k
  • $250k+1 grant · $975k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE$975,000
MARJAREE MASON CENTER$65,000
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK$58,360
ADVENTIST HEALTH DELANO FOUNDATION$50,000
BREAK THE BARRIERS INTERNATIONAL$50,000
SAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY$30,000
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION$30,000
CENTRAL VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
CULTURAL BROKERS INC$20,000
POVERELLO HOUSE$20,000
FOODLINK TULARE COUNTY$13,037
THE FOUNDATION FCOE$12,500
WEST FRESNO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$10,700
BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDREN'S MOVEMENT OF FRESNO$8,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $818k) 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.

area typical 12%CULTURAL BROKERS INC: $20k → 19%SIERRA VISTA CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 15%BREAK THE BARRIERS INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FRESNO: $30k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FRESNO: $15k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FRESNO: $12k → 19%FRESNO METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $50k → 19%FRESNO METRO MINISTRY: $50k → 19%FRESNO METRO MINISTRY: $15k → 19%FRESNO METRO MINISTRY: $13k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $160k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $75k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $65k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $65k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $65k → 19%CULTURAL BROKERS INC: $40k → 19%MARTIN PARK INC: $30k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $13k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $11k → 19%Hindi's Hospice: $8k → 19%HINDS HOSPICE: $8k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$69M · 22 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
10

Total granted

$69M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • VC
    VALLEY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP
    7× · 2017–2023 · $65M · revenue +60% · 27% of their budget
  • MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $453k · revenue +212%
  • CC
    CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK
    4× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +26%
  • MP
    Martin Park Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -44%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue -28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Valley Health Team Inc

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…

Health
2
Fresno Building Healthy Communities

To foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives

Community Improvement
3
Central Valley Business Federation

To strengthen the voice of business in Californias Central Valley through information sharing expertise networking connections and research to impact economic policies programs and projects.

Community Improvement
4
Family Healthcare Network

To provide health care services to socially and economically distressed sectors of the southern San Joaquin Valley in California.

Health
5
Family Services of Tulare County Inc

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,…

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 Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified
8
California Childrens Hospital Association

Our mission is to advance the well-being of children, promote access to high quality pediatric health care, and ensure the long-term viability of childrens hospitals.

—
9
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
10
Complete Care Community Health Center I

The organization's mission is to eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for underserved communities in california.

Health
11
Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation

Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation eliminates barriers and enhances the capabilities of Contra Costa Health Services and the community to improve the saftey, health, and wellness of every Contra Costa County resident.

Health
12
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Northeastern & Central California 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFresno Community DevelopmentYouth Sports & Community Or…Regional Arts Centers & Cou…Foster Care and Residential…Disability Services Organiz…University Support Organiza…San Joaquin Valley Communit…Community Hospital Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr15%36%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr15%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%94%10–20yr15%1%20–35yr12%0%35–55yr15%1%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
14%
784/5,778

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VALLEY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP — $65,279,191 · HealthVALLEY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUPVALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE — $2,495,000 · Health+8 more — $391,636 · HealthMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC — $453,100 · Human ServicesFresno Metropolitan Ministry — $128,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno — $72,000 · Human ServicesCULTURAL BROKERS INCORPORATED — $60,000 · Human ServicesBreak the Barriers Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesMartin Park Inc — $30,000 · Human Services+2 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDATION FCOE INC — $93,750 · PhilanthropyCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation — $72,500 · PhilanthropyStanislaus Community Foundation — $62,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Stanislaus County — $15,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK — $129,797 · Food & NutritionFoodlink for Tulare County Inc — $20,537 · Food & NutritionSAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST — $100,000 · EnvironmentCLOVIS BOTANICAL GARDEN — $15,000 · EnvironmentBUDDHIST TZU CHI MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $78,333 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc — $10,000 · InternationalRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CENTRAL VALLEY INC — $39,500 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherInstitute for Healthcare Excellence — $8,500 · OtherFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC — $25,000 · OtherPoverello House — $20,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION — $33,500 · OtherBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc — $20,500 · OtherCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties — $25,700 · Other+1 more — $7,500 · Other
Health$68,165,827Human Services$818,100Philanthropy$243,750Food & Nutrition$150,334Environment$115,000International$88,333Other$240,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVALLEY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP — $65,279,191 over 7y, 27% of budgetVALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE — $2,495,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC — $453,100 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK — $129,797 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFresno Metropolitan Ministry — $128,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPublic Health Institute — $124,436 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST — $100,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FCOE INC — $93,750 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBUDDHIST TZU CHI MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $78,333 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation — $72,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $72,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno — $72,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetStanislaus Community Foundation — $62,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCULTURAL BROKERS INCORPORATED — $60,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetBreak the Barriers Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAdventist Health Delano — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA — $41,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CENTRAL VALLEY INC — $39,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION — $33,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST FRESNO HEALTH CARE COALITION DBA WEST FRESNO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $30,700 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMartin Park Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties — $25,700 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFoodlink for Tulare County Inc — $20,537 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc — $20,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPoverello House — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHinds Hospice — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Stanislaus County — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCLOVIS BOTANICAL GARDEN — $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Vista Child & Family Services — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA — $6,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
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.

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.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…Rotary Club of Fresno…The California Endowm…Leon S Peters Foundat…United Way California…East Bay Community Fo…The Smittcamp Family …The Fansler FoundationShamshoian Family Fou…The Edward M and Jean…Briscoe Family Founda…Central California Fo…
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA28.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation · The California Endowment · Leon S Peters Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · East Bay Community Foundation · The Smittcamp Family Foundation · The Fansler Foundation · Shamshoian Family Foundation · The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inc · Briscoe Family Foundation · Central California Food Bank

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 Valley Children's Hospital 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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