· Private foundation
Wayne H Towne Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fresno Philharmonic Association | $100,000 |
| Valley Public Television | $50,000 |
| Sierra Meadows Foundation Inc | $35,000 |
| Valley Animal Center | $20,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $20,000 |
| Hinds Life Care | $20,000 |
| The Cat House on the Kings | $10,000 |
| Fresno Mission | $9,000 |
| Evangel Home | $9,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Central Calif South | $9,000 |
| Poverello House | $9,000 |
| Marjoree Mason Center | $9,000 |
| Sierra College Foundation | $8,000 |
| Halo Cafe Inc - Pet Food Pantry | $5,805 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Wayne H Towne Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 90%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VPValley Public Television Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $413k · revenue +9%
- VAVALLEY ANIMAL CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +18%
- HHHinds Hospice8× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- VTValley Teen Ranchgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +395%
- SRScottish Rite Foundationone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…
Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Valley Residential Services provides personalized support in safe, comfortable home environments for developmentally disabled individuals, residences for veterans with rehabilitation opportunities, and family assistance services.
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 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.
Pajaro Valley Shelter Services provides families with a path toward self-sufficient futures through short-and longer-term housing and supportive services.
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Silicon valley pet project (svpp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to saving local at-risk shelter pets through rescue, community involvement and education.
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.
Providing equine veterinary hospital facilities and support services in the care of injured or sick race horses
Valley Health Team, Inc. was established in 1973 for the purpose of providing accessible comprehensive, quality primary health care and additional services to the people in the communities we serve in a culturally and linguistically…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Valley Public Television Inc ↗
- Who funds VALLEY ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hinds Hospice ↗
- Who funds The Fresno Philharmonic Association ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SIERRA MEADOWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Poverello House ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Central California South Inc ↗
- Who funds Sierra College Foundation ↗
- Who funds EVANGEL HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Teen Ranch ↗
- Who funds THE CAT HOUSE ON THE KINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Leon S Peters Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Isnardi Foundation · Valley Children's Hospital · The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inc · Briscoe Family Foundation · Educational Employees Credit Union · United Way California Capital Region · Teichert Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Carmax Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wayne H Towne Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wayne H Towne Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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