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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.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$68MHuman Services$753kFood & Nutrition$150kPhilanthropy$150kEducation$127kEnvironment$115kInternational$60kHousing & Shelter$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $3,464,844, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,048,334 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $583,490 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $561k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $574k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.3M
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRESNO RESCUE MISSION$1,000,000
VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE$850,000
VALLEY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP$416,810
GOLDEN CHARTER ACADEMY$100,000
SUNNYSIDE LONE STAR LITTLE LEAGUE$100,000
ADVENTIST HEALTH BAKERSFIELD$95,000
CALIFORNIA INTERSCHOLASTIC FEDERATION$85,000
MERCED COUNTY FAIR$75,000
MARJOREE MASON CENTER$69,410
SAINT REST BAPTIST CHURCH$50,000
BREAK THE BARRIERS INTERNATIONAL$49,712
FRESNO CHAFFEE ZOO CORP$45,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$45,000
SAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY AND CONSERVATION TRUST$45,000
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK$36,218
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $999k) 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.

area typical 12%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNER: $8k → 22%GARDEN PATHWAYS INC: $10k → 18%CULTURAL BROKERS INC: $20k → 19%SIERRA VISTA CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 15%SIERRA VISTA CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 15%BREAK THE BARRIERS INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 19%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 METRO MINISTRY: $50k → 19%FRESNO METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $50k → 19%FRESNO METRO MINISTRY: $15k → 19%FRESNO METRO MINISTRY: $13k → 19%FRESNO METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $11k → 19%EXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED: $7k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $160k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $75k → 19%MARJOREE MASON CENTER: $69k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $65k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $65k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $65k → 19%CULTURAL BROKERS INC: $40k → 19%MARTIN PARK INC: $30k → 19%LIGHTHOUSE FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $13k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $11k → 19%HINDS HOSPICE: $8k → 19%Hindi's Hospice: $8k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$72M · 29 repeat orgs$815k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
7

Total granted

$72M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+52%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $676k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    8× · 2017–2025 · $66M · revenue +108% · 27% of their budget
  • VC
    VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +12%
  • FR
    FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +26%
  • MP
    Martin Park Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -44%
  • THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its 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
Fresno Building Healthy Communities

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

Community Improvement
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Family Healthcare Network

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

Health
6
Central Valley Health Network Inc

Central Valley Health Network is a not-for-profit regional association representing 16 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) that serve low-income and medically underserved communities throughout California's greater Central Valley,…

Health
7
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
8
Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission

A community action agency whose mission is to humanely focus all available resources to empower low-income families and individuals working towards the skills, knowledge,and motivation for self-sufficiency. human services and…

Human Services
9
Solano Family & Childrens Council Inc

Solano Family & Children's Services promotes and advocates for the well-being of children, their families, and child care providers by offering access to a variety of child care resources.

Human Services
10
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
11
United Way of Fresno and Madera Counties

United Way Fresno and Madera Counties creates paths to prosperity. We achieve this through resident-led and partner-supported work that acknowledges individual circumstance and prioritizes access, opportunity, and equity for all.

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12
Court Appointed Special Advocates (Casa) of Merced County

Advocate for foster care children in courts. Providing quality intervention and advocacy services for abused, abandoned, and neglected children.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Northeastern & Central California; 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.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 60 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
32/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VALLEY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP: $65,696,001 · HealthVALLEY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUPVALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE: $3,345,000 · Health+8 more: $554,056 · HealthFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,025,000 · Housing & ShelterPoverello House: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $522,510 · Human ServicesFresno Metropolitan Ministry: $139,000 · Human ServicesBreak the Barriers Inc: $99,712 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno: $72,000 · Human ServicesCULTURAL BROKERS INCORPORATED: $60,000 · Human Services+7 more: $105,280 · Human ServicesSUNNYSIDE LONE STAR LITTLE LEAGUE LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsCALIFORNIA INTERSCHOLASTIC FEDERATION: $85,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF MERCED COUNTY FAIR INC: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsSOUTH VALLEY SOCCER CLUB: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FOUNDATION FCOE INC: $106,250 · PhilanthropyCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $72,500 · PhilanthropyStanislaus Community Foundation: $62,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Stanislaus County: $15,000 · PhilanthropySAINT REST BAPTIST CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CENTRAL VALLEY INC: $49,140 · OtherFRESNO CHAFFEE ZOO CORP: $45,000 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherSAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST: $145,000 · OtherTHE GOLDEN CHARTER ACADEMY: $100,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $33,500 · OtherBUDDHIST TZU CHI MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $78,333 · OtherBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc: $48,500 · OtherCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties: $47,840 · OtherBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Other+12 more: $147,574 · OtherCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $166,015 · Food & NutritionFoodlink for Tulare County Inc: $40,537 · Food & NutritionMadera County Food Bank: $10,140 · Food & Nutrition
Health$69,595,057Housing & Shelter$1,075,000Human Services$998,502Recreation & Sports$330,000Philanthropy$256,250Other$814,887Food & Nutrition$216,692

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVALLEY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP: $65,696,001 over 8y, 27% of budgetVALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE: $3,345,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,025,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $522,510 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $166,015 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST: $145,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetAdventist Health Delano: $145,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFresno Metropolitan Ministry: $139,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPublic Health Institute: $124,436 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FCOE INC: $106,250 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GOLDEN CHARTER ACADEMY: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSUNNYSIDE LONE STAR LITTLE LEAGUE LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetBreak the Barriers Inc: $99,712 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA INTERSCHOLASTIC FEDERATION: $85,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBUDDHIST TZU CHI MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $78,333 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF MERCED COUNTY FAIR INC: $75,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $72,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetPoverello House: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CENTRAL VALLEY INC: $49,140 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc: $48,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: $48,140 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties: $47,840 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWEST FRESNO HEALTH CARE COALITION DBA WEST FRESNO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $45,980 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFoodlink for Tulare County Inc: $40,537 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $33,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMartin Park Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH VALLEY SOCCER CLUB: $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetLighthouse for Children Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetChildrens Movement of Fresno County: $17,772 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSierra Vista Child & Family Services: $16,000 over 2y, 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 budgetMadera County Food Bank: $10,140 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGarden Pathways Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMODESTO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INC: $9,712 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MADERA COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED INC: $6,780 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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

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 Valley Children's Hospital funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Valley Children's Hospital. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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