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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
1
Communities
$197k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 10 grants
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
$66,775
Median grant
1
States reached
$82k
Total assets
Largest grants
- 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
02The need
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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 (FY20–20, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 19%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
Central California Family Crisis Center
The Organization provides shelter, meals, clothing and counseling for victims of domestic violence, housing crisis, and/or poverty.
Human Services
2
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
3
Housing Matters
Provide emergency and transitional services to homeless individuals in the county of santa cruz.
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4
Community Housing Sonoma County
Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.
Housing & Shelter
5
Childrens Receiving Home
The Childrens Receiving Home of Sacramento is committed to positively impacting the lives of children, youth, and families affected by abuse, neglect, behavioral health issues, and trauma in California.
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6
Family Healthcare Network
To provide health care services to socially and economically depressed sectors of the southern San Joaquin Valley in California.
Health
7
Napa Valley Community Housing
To develop, own and manage affordable housing for low income residents of napa county.
Health
8
Inner City Law Center
Fighting for justice and housing by providing legal representation for the homeless and working poor.
Crime & Legal
9
Foothills Housing Corporation
Providing safe, decent & affordable housing opportunities.
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10
Valley Residential Services
Support for disabled individuals, homes for veterans, and family assistance services.
Health
11
Family Services of Tulare County Inc
Human Services
12
Insight Housing
Ensuring everyone in our community has a home through supportive, equitable and sustainable housing solutions.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marjaree Mason Center 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.
03the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Housing & Shelter$296,410Human Services$209,602Food & Nutrition$197,224Public Benefit$66,775Other$34,354
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 ↗
- Who funds MARJAREE MASON CENTER ↗
- Who funds POVERELLO HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VALLEY DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF FRESNO ↗
- Who funds EVANGEL HOME ↗
- Who funds HIGHWAY CITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED ↗
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 HospitalsCA21.4× 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 · Aetna Foundation Inc · Daniel R Martin Family Foundation · The Fansler Foundation · Saint Agnes Medical Center · Valley Children's Hospital · United Way California Capital · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: VALLEY DREAM CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 465082395 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on VALLEY DREAM CENTER, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Valley Future Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Valley Future Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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