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Waterford Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$641k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Health$778kEducation$733kFood & Nutrition$559kReligion$392kHousing & Shelter$353kHuman Services$220kCrime & Legal$165k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $573k
$76,420
Median grant
1
States reached
$434k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK$124,520
BUY SELL RESCUE INC$94,920
ANGELS OF GRACE INC$82,220
FRESNO POLICE CHAPLAINCY$80,820
FRESNO RESCUE MISSION$76,420
CASA OF FRESNO AND MADERA COUNTIES$59,900
FOUNDATION FOR SANGER SCHOOLS$53,700
BREAKING THE CHAINS$42,500
PAIN (PARENTS AND ADDICTS IN NEEDS)$26,400
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $523k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%ANGELS OF GRACE INC: $82k → 19%ANGELS OF GRACE INC: $56k → 19%ANGELS OF GRACE INC: $42k → 19%ANGELS OF GRACE INC: $39k → 19%ANGELS OF GRACE INC: $82k → 19%HINDS HOSPICE: $64k → 19%HINDS HOSPICE: $63k → 19%HINDS HOSPICE: $50k → 19%HINDS HOSPICE: $45k → 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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 12 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$3.7M
$4.8M

Still filing today

92%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
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

  • CC
    CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK
    5× · 2019–2025 · $684k · revenue +92%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS
    4× · 2019–2022 · $329k · revenue +122% · 47% of their budget
  • TF
    The Foundation for Sanger Schools
    5× · 2019–2025 · $308k · revenue +3% · 60% of their budget

Funded once

  • CC
    CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION TO ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTER OF FRESNO
    one grant, 2024 · $4.8M
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
Animal Rescue of Fresno

To facilitate and assist in the care and adoption of homeless domestic animals and dissemination of information encouraging spaying and neutering.

Animals
2
Fresno Humane Animal Services

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…

Animals
3
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
4
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
5
Central Valley Foster Care Inc

Operation of a foster family care agency

Human Services
6
Fresno Hope Animal Foundation

To help control the unwanted pet population through spaying and neutering, not killing, and to decrease the number of abandoned, injured, and abused dogs and cats through prevention and education. It is the Foundations belief that through…

Animals
7
Bakersfield Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To provide a home with adequate food, shelter, and care for all animals entrusted to the Society within the limits of its financial ability. To educate the public and enlist its help by actively promoting adoptions, memberships, donations,…

Animals
8
Our Valley Cares Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
9
Fresno Fire Chief's Foundation

Provide children and adults in the communtiy with helmets and fire safety materials and information.

Philanthropy
10
Fresno City Center Corporation

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. also, to invest and develop…

Housing & Shelter
11
FosterHope Sacramento

To provide certified residential care and treatment of foster care children placed through county welfare departments under the provision of the california welfare and institutions code

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12
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fresno Rescue Mission Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 14 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION TO ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTER OF FRESNO: $4,774,209 · OtherCHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION TO ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTER OF FRESNOFRESNO POLICE CHAPLAINCY: $472,935 · OtherFRESNO POLICE CHAPLAINCYFOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS: $329,326 · EducationFOUNDATION…The Foundation for Sanger Schools: $308,025 · EducationThe Founda…Foundation for Central Schools: $149,570 · EducationFoundation…CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $683,746 · Food & NutritionPAIN PARENTS AND ADDICTS IN NEED: $297,926 · HealthArt of Life Cancer Foundation Inc: $285,325 · HealthANGELS OF GRACE INC: $301,935 · Human ServicesHinds Hospice: $221,315 · Human ServicesBREAKING THE CHAINS: $299,626 · Housing & ShelterFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC: $171,930 · Housing & ShelterCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties: $224,421 · Civil RightsBUY SELL RESCUE INC DBA MELLS MUTTS: $94,920 · Animals
Other$5,247,144Education$786,921Food & Nutrition$683,746Health$583,251Human Services$523,250Housing & Shelter$471,556Civil Rights$224,421Animals$94,920

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 budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $683,746 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS: $329,326 over 4y, 47% of budgetThe Foundation for Sanger Schools: $308,025 over 5y, 60% of budgetANGELS OF GRACE INC: $301,935 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetBREAKING THE CHAINS: $299,626 over 5y, 13% of budgetPAIN PARENTS AND ADDICTS IN NEED: $297,926 over 5y, 34% of budgetArt of Life Cancer Foundation Inc: $285,325 over 4y, 36% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties: $224,421 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetHinds Hospice: $221,315 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC: $171,930 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFoundation for Central Schools: $149,570 over 2y, 52% 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.

Educational Employees…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Educational Employees Credit UnionCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Educational Employees Credit Union · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Waterford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waterford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Waterford Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Waterford Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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-PF 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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