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Foundation for Fresno Unified Students

Foundation for Fresno Unified Students (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,204,718 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($20,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$20M
Net assets
$22M
3/10 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Foundation for Fresno Unified Students does

Mission

Scholarships & Program Support for Fresno Unified Students

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scholarships for college bound graduates and career readiness programs

    $447,200 spent
    50% of program spending
  2. Other program support

    $442,068 spent
    50% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $889,268.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($13k) Expenses 100 ($10k) Net assets 100 ($3k)2023 Revenue 163535 ($21M) Expenses 956 ($96k) Net assets 752902 ($21M)2024 Revenue 14894 ($1.9M) Expenses 10433 ($1.0M) Net assets 786639 ($22M)2025 Revenue 11063 ($1.4M) Expenses 12031 ($1.2M) Net assets 813934 ($22M)
2022202320242025
Revenue (11063)Expenses (12031)Net assets (813934)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3k to $21M (+753878%).

$3k
$21M
$22M
$23M
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

35% of Foundation for Fresno Unified Students’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’22
$21M
’23
$857k
’24
$208k
’25
8.8
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

202320242025
Listed9711
Joined·+1+5
No longer listed·31
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $20M → $51k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Foundation for Fresno Unified Students’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Foundation for Fresno Unified Students leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Foundation for Fresno Unified Students.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 79% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

99% of Foundation for Fresno Unified Students's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $193k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from California funders.

CA
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Foundation for Fresno Unified Students runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)380% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Foundation for Fresno Unified Students

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 10%Fundraising 16%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Foundation for Fresno Unified Students: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Foundation for Fresno Unified Students?
Foundation for Fresno Unified Students (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,204,718 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($20,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Foundation for Fresno Unified Students have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $20,204,718 in grants to Foundation for Fresno Unified Students, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Foundation for Fresno Unified Students?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $20,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Foundation for Fresno Unified Students find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing