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Educational Employees Credit Union

Fresno, CA · EIN 94-1031345. Reported 108 grants totalling $1,764,668 to 58 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

58organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$1,764,668granted, 2021-2024
50%of grantees funded again the next year
16%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 16% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,025 and the largest $114,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
22 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
71 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
11 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The Foundation at FcoeFresno, CA$280,000442024
Fresno County Office of EducationFresno, CA$123,000332023
Abc-30Fresno, CA$102,000112022
Big Fresno FairFresno, CA$95,000442024
Fresno GrizzliesFresno, CA$84,000332023
State Center Community College FoundationFresno, CA$58,500332024
White Ash Broadcasting IncClovis, CA$58,000332024
San Luis Obispo County Office of EducationSan Luis Obispo, CA$50,000222023
College of the Sequoias FoundationVisalia, CA$42,600332024
Childrens Miracle NetworkSalt Lake Cty, UT$40,000332023
San Joaquin Valley Town Hall IncFresno, CA$40,000442024
Fresno Deputy Sheriffs Association IncFresno, CA$37,500442024
The Salvation ArmyHonolulu, HI$37,500332024
Fresno GrizzliesFresno, CA$35,000112024
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncFresno, CA$30,000332024
Fresno City & County Historical SocietyFresno, CA$30,000332024
San Luis Obispo County Office of EducationSan Luis Obispo, CA$30,000112024
Fresno Unified School DistrictFresno, CA$27,500332023
San Joaquin Parkway & Conservation Inc TrFresno, CA$27,500332024
Paso Robles Chamber of CommercePaso Robles, CA$24,000322024
Valley Childrens Healthcare FoundationMadera, CA$22,500222023
Madera District FairMadera, CA$22,450332024
American Red CrossBurbank, CA$20,000222023
Clovis Unified School DistrictClovis, CA$20,000222023
Habitat for Humanity Fresno IncFresno, CA$20,000222024
The Foundation for Fresno Unified StudentsFresno, CA$20,000222024
Valley Public Television IncFresno, CA$20,000222022
West Hills Community College FoundationCoalinga, CA$20,000112021
Wings Advocacy FresnoFresno, CA$20,000222023
Merced County Office of EducationMerced, CA$19,750222023
Madera Unified School DistrictMadera, CA$17,370112023
California State University Fresno FoundationFresno, CA$15,000112021
Central California Hispanic Chamber of CommerceFresno, CA$15,000112021
Clovis Rodeo AssociationClovis, CA$15,000222024
Valley Childrens HospitalMadera, CA$15,000112024
Community Hospital of Central California FoundationFresno, CA$12,500112021
Foundation for Central SchoolsFresno, CA$12,500112024
Salvation Army National CorpAlexandria, VA$12,500112021
United Way of Merced County IncMerced, CA$12,500112024
Dinuba Unified School DistrictDinuba, CA$12,000222023
Central California Womens ConferenceFresno, CA$10,350222024
Beyond Housing FoundationFresno, CA$10,000112021
Central Valley Resource Center Services CorpParlier, CA$10,000112023
Forward Fresno Foundation IncFresno, CA$10,000112024
Foundation for Clovis SchoolsClovis, CA$10,000112021
Fresno CompactSanger, CA$10,000112024
Good Company PlayersFresno, CA$10,000112022
Marjaree Mason Center IncFresno, CA$10,000112021
Merced College FoundationMerced, CA$10,000112024
Paso Robles Joint Unified School DistrictPaso Robles, CA$10,000112023
Paso Robles Joint UsdPaso Robles, CA$10,000112024
San Luis Obispo County Sheriffs Advisory FoundationSn Luis Obisp, CA$10,000112024
Visalia Rawhide Baseball ClubVisalia, CA$10,000112021
Westcare California IncHenderson, NV$10,000112024
The Fresno CenterFresno, CA$8,000112024
Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions IncMadison, WI$7,500112023
Tulare County Office of EducationVisalia, CA$7,148112022
Richard Myles Johnson FoundationOntario, CA$5,500112024

29 of 58 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 58 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
9 orgs
Arts & Culture
3 orgs
Health Care
3 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Crime & Legal
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202124$376,000$10,000
202223$401,148$10,000
202330$497,895$10,000
202431$489,625$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

94% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

California
$1.7M
Utah
$40K
Hawaii
$38K
Virginia
$12K
Nevada
$10K
Wisconsin
$8K

Down to the city

Fresno, CA
$1.2M
Clovis, CA
$103K
San Luis Obispo, CA
$80K
Madera, CA
$77K
Visalia, CA
$60K
Paso Robles, CA
$44K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsKaiser Foundation Hospitals11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund8 shared recipientsCentral California Food Bank7 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Educational Employees Credit Union's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 25 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 2222 West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, CA, 93711.

EIN 94-1031345 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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