California · Nonprofit
FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,751,849 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($9,317,395). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared funders
- West Scholarship Fndportfolio match
- Edward Payson Irwin and Bernice Piilani Irwinportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 17% · 2023 21% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $445k → $1.5M.
12 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.5M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fresno Pacific University Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. 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 PACIFIC UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 34% · 2019 35% · 2020 74% · 2021 67% · 2022 58% · 2023 66% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 46 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 134 organizations that share your funders
- West Scholarship Fndportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward Payson Irwin and Bernice Piilani Irwinportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charles T & Helen R Williamson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ghidotti Wm Marian T U Aportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wf & Blanche E West Educational & Coffman Jfportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sons of Italy Joanne Coccia Lodge No 2553 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ce Towne Scholarship Fund Tuw Acctportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jefferson Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 84 organizations that share your funders
- Ernest Wentcher Educational Fundshared fundersIL · backs 84 organizations that share your funders
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.0M on record.
- Department of Education$26.5M
- Department of Agriculture$549k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Fresno Pacific University Foundation · exempt
- Mbbs-Us Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY?
- FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,751,849 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($9,317,395). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $22,751,849 in grants to FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,317,395 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 46funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing