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Waterford Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k2 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $907k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK | $143,310 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS | $103,410 |
| FRESNO RESCUE MISSION | $95,510 |
| BREAKING THE CHAINS | $86,110 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CENTRAL SCHOOLS | $83,410 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SANGER SCHOOLS | $82,910 |
| ANGELS OF GRACE INC | $82,410 |
| THE ART OF LIFE CANCER FOUNDATION | $80,610 |
| PARENTS AND ADDICTS IN NEED | $75,910 |
| CASA OF FRESNO AND MADERA COUNTIES | $73,710 |
| FRESNO POLICE CHAPLAINCY | $47,600 |
| HINDS HOSPICE | $44,700 |
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 (FY19–22, $441k) 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK4× · 2019–2022 · $559k · revenue +92%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS4× · 2019–2022 · $329k · revenue +122% · 47% of their budget
- BTBREAKING THE CHAINS4× · 2019–2022 · $257k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- FRFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $96k · revenue +48%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 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,…
Advocate for foster care children in courts. Providing quality intervention and advocacy services for abused, abandoned, and neglected children.
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…
To improve the quality of life for Fresno County's animals by providing a full range of progressive animal control services. We focus on education, animal reunification, adoption, as well as community safety. We Protect the public,educate…
Operation of a foster family care agency
Provide children and adults in the communtiy with helmets and fire safety materials and information.
Recruit, train and supervise volunteers to advocate for abused, neglected and abandoned children placed in foster homes. CASA volunteers ensure children's best interests remain the priority and their needs met while working to establish a…
Fistula Foundation works to end the suffering caused by the childbirth injury obstetric fistula by getting as many women treated as possible. Additionally, the Foundation is focused on increasing the number of trained obstetric fistula…
To be a supporting organization of the fresno rescue mission, inc. acting as a trustee in receiving, investing, managing, administrating, and distributing designated funds for the ministries of the mission.
Ensuring consistency and support for children in the foster care system through the use of volunteer advocates advancing the best interests of each child.
To provide relief for the immediate economic hardship of the spouse or other close family members of any peace officer in the state of California who loses his or her life while enforcing narcotic laws.
Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fresno Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Angels of Grace Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Art of Life Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PAIN PARENTS AND ADDICTS IN NEED ↗
- Who funds BREAKING THE CHAINS ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Sanger Schools ↗
- Who funds Hinds Hospice ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF GRACE INC ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Central Schools ↗
- Who funds FRESNO RESCUE MISSION 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: Educational Employees Credit Union · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Waterford Foundation 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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