· Public charity
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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $692k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK | $197,224 |
| FRESNO RESCUE MISSION | $192,970 |
| MARJAREE MASON CENTER | $131,193 |
| POVERELLO HOUSE | $103,440 |
| VALLEY DREAM CENTER | $66,775 |
| LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $34,354 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF FRESNO | $32,294 |
| EVANGEL HOME | $29,446 |
| HIGHWAY CITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $11,380 |
| EXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED | $5,289 |
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 (FY20–20, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 Organization provides shelter, meals, clothing and counseling for victims of domestic violence, housing crisis, and/or poverty.
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.
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,…
The rescue mission provides services to the homeless population in madera county in california. it provides housing for men, women, and families on an emergency short-term basis. it also operates a rehabilitation program for men and women.
Valley Restart Shelter's mission is to support families, seniors, widows, children, and veterans on their path to permanent housing, and lasting stability-empowering them with hope and a renewed sense of pride.
To provide affordable housing to low-income families, the handicapped and elderly.
The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.
In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.
The mission of the UpValley Family Centers is to provide guidance, support and resources in the community, in the home and for the individual so that everyone can achieve a better life. We serve youth, adults and families in the…
FHAR is a not-for-profit organization serving adults with developmental disabilities. FHARs mission is to assist each program participant to reach their full potential through residential services vocational and social program services and…
to engage in social action through self-determination for all individuals by providing educational, financial, housing, and other support services.
To provide temporary shelter and assistance to homeless families, and also to provide rental assistance in an effort to prevent families from becoming homeless. Program goal is to assist the families in their efforts to become…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fresno Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Highway City Community Development Inc. 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 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Poverello House ↗
- Who funds VALLEY DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno ↗
- Who funds EVANGEL HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHWAY CITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED INC ↗
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: 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
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 Future Foundation Inc 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.
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