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Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation

Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,644 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$266k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$26k
Net assets
$2.4M
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation does

Mission

The Foundation was established to raise funds for the purpose of contributing to charitable and educational organizations in the local, national, and international community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Foundation contributed funds to the Marjaree Mason Center for the support of the remodel project at their new location in Fresno; to Leadership Fresno Class and their project; to the Rotary Club of Fresno for Project Nino; to Break the Barriers for 10 laptops and swim supplies; to the Poverello House for new day habitation building; to Lowell Community Development Corporation for entre way and green space; and Gracebound for new showers and laundry for the homeless in downtown Fresno.

    $178,482 spentof which $178,482 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $178,482.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($83k) Expenses 100 ($123k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 294 ($244k) Expenses 89 ($109k) Net assets 110 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 243 ($202k) Expenses 151 ($185k) Net assets 112 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 165 ($138k) Expenses 131 ($160k) Net assets 110 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 127 ($106k) Expenses 70 ($86k) Net assets 111 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 360 ($299k) Expenses 73 ($90k) Net assets 128 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 142 ($119k) Expenses 56 ($69k) Net assets 131 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 825 ($687k) Expenses 78 ($95k) Net assets 177 ($2.3M)2025 Revenue 320 ($266k) Expenses 175 ($214k) Net assets 181 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (320)Expenses (175)Net assets (181)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $2.3M (+34%).

$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$2.3M
$2.4M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 41% · 2019 25% · 2020 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

36% of Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$39k
’17
$135k
’18
$17k
’19
−$23k
’20
$20k
’21
$210k
’22
$50k
’23
$591k
’24
$52k
’25
0.2
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.

Board chair

Ryan Jacobsen

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed999999999
Joined·+1+2+2+2+2+1+1+3
No longer listed·12222113
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $69.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation’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

Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

89% 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 Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation.

88%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 91% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 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

89% of Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from California funders.

CA
NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

17%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Rotary Club of Fresno · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation?
Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,644 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($22,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $25,644 in grants to Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation 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 4 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