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Valley Future Foundation Inc

The purpose of the organization is to conduct research and investigate reporting on economic, social, and political issues of significance to citizens of the san joaquin valley, and to educate the public on those matters through publications, lectures and other means.

$817k
Granted FY2020
10
Grants FY2020
10
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$66,775
Largest grant, FY2020
$197,224
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$84k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Central California Food Bank$197,22410%
Fresno Rescue Mission Inc$192,97011%
Marjaree Mason Center Inc$131,19312%
Poverello House$103,44012%
Valley Dream Center$66,775118%
Lifebridge Community Church$34,3541n/a
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno$32,29410%
Evangel Home Inc$29,44613%
Highway City Community Development Inc$11,38016%
Exceptional Parents Unlimited Inc$5,28910%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Valley Future Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral California Food Bank: $197,224 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFresno Rescue Mission Inc: $192,970 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMarjaree Mason Center Inc: $131,193 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPoverello House: $103,440 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetValley Dream Center: $66,775 over 1y, 18% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno: $32,294 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEvangel Home Inc: $29,446 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHighway City Community Development Inc: $11,380 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetExceptional Parents Unlimited Inc: $5,289 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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…Sieg & Doris Fischer …Central California Fo…Teichert FoundationAetna Foundation IncWayne H Towne Family …Isnardi FoundationThe Fansler FoundationDaniel R Martin Famil…Valley Children's Hos…Saint Agnes Medical C…United Way California…
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sieg & Doris Fischer FDN-AGY-MAIN · Central California Food Bank · Teichert Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Wayne H Towne Family Foundation · Isnardi Foundation · The Fansler Foundation · Daniel R Martin Family Foundation · Valley Children's Hospital · Saint Agnes Medical Center · United Way California Capital Region

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.

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About Valley Future Foundation Inc

How much does Valley Future Foundation Inc give?
Valley Future Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $817,348 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Valley Future Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (37%), Human Services (33%), Food & Nutrition (25%).
Who are Valley Future Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Central California Food Bank ($197k), Fresno Rescue Mission Inc ($193k), Marjaree Mason Center Inc ($131k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Valley Future Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Sieg & Doris Fischer FDN-AGY-MAIN, Central California Food Bank.
Where is Valley Future Foundation Inc based?
Valley Future Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 2020, released 2020. 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 FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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