California · Nonprofit
FRESNO FOOD COMMONS TRUST
FRESNO FOOD COMMONS TRUST (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,145,687 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($700,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $917k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $508k
What Fresno Food Commons Trust does
Mission
Fresno Food Commons Trust was founded to (1) provide assistance to disadvantaged farmworkers and food system workers; (2) to educate the public about sustainable agricultural and food system; (3) preserve farmland pursuant to federal, state and local government conservation policy in the fresno region.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Food commons fresno is growing a community food system that fosters health, stewardship, equity, and economic development. This system includes farm production, processing, distribution, and retail sales in fresno and the surrounding san joaquin valley. Broad-based community participation is a core value of the food commons. Food commons fresno assets will be stewarded for the benefit of the community by the nonprofit food commons fresno trust. Business development will be accelerated by collaboration and partnership with existing local food and farming enterprises.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $523k to $812k (+55%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $322k → $49k.
From the IRS filings of FRESNO FOOD COMMONS TRUST’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
FRESNO FOOD COMMONS TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 80% · 2019 93% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of FRESNO FOOD COMMONS TRUST's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like FRESNO FOOD COMMONS TRUST
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fresno Food Commons Community Corp · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRESNO FOOD COMMONS TRUST: 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 FRESNO FOOD COMMONS TRUST?
- FRESNO FOOD COMMONS TRUST (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,145,687 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($700,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRESNO FOOD COMMONS TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,145,687 in grants to FRESNO FOOD COMMONS TRUST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESNO FOOD COMMONS TRUST?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESNO FOOD COMMONS TRUST 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing