Fresno Regional Foundation

Our funds

Fresno Regional Foundation donors come together to meet community needs across our region. We connect people who care to causes that matter in our community. Whatever your philanthropic goal, we can help, from supporting the unpredicted, emerging needs in the Central Valley’s future, to establishing a fund that lets you stay involved in grantmaking.

Fresno Regional Foundation Funds

Donor advised funds

• Anonymous Funds
• Bradford & Diane Anderson Family Fund
• George & Desa Belyea Charitable Trust
• Bennett Family Foundation Fund
• Blossom Family Fund
• Don and Ruth Bricker Endowment Fund
• Deborah Anne Busick Fund
• Caravan Fund for Children
• Community Development Fund
• George and Evelyn Ducoff Endowment Fund
• Irma & Donald Franson Family Fund
• Judy and Jim Ganulin Family Fund
• Guarantee Goodwill Network Fund
• Eric K. Hansen Memorial Fund
• Harris Farms Charitable Fund
• Richard and Eleanor Holt Fund
• David & Carolyn Johnson Family Fund
• LeRoux Family Fund
• William S. and Elizabeth S. Lucido Fund
• Lyles Diversified Charitable Fund
• Lyles Foundation Donor Advised Fund
• Elizabeth V. Lyles Fund
• Gerald and Nanette Lyles Donor Advised Fund
• Jerry Lyles Fund
• Will and Tami Lyles Fund
• Mr. & Mrs. William M. Lyles Fund
• Ann Lyles-MacPhail Charitable Fund
• Matty Matoian Fund
• Jane Porter Fund
• Katherine Porter Fund
• T. W. Porter Fund
• Paul E. W. & Elizabeth B. Read Fund
• Tom and Louise Richardson Fund
• Rosenstein Charitable Fund
• Donald J. & Alice B. Schafer Fund
• Michael J. & Rhonda E. Schafer Fund
• Elizabeth Luanne Silkwood Fund
• Leo & Evelyn Weil Family Fund
• O.J. Woodward III Fund
• Jack and Bernice Woolf Family Fund
• Phyllis B. & Robert G. Wright Fund
• Gary & Carol Yoder Foundation

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Funds designated for specific organizations

• Agatha Farms, Inc., Waterfowl Habitat Fund
• Armenian Library Museum & Cultural Center
• Break the Barriers Fund
• Bullard Foundation for Academic Excellence
• Cancer Care Assoc. Fund
• CASA of Fresno and Madera Counties
• Central California Writers Fund
• Economic Development Corporation Fund
• Exceptional Parents Unlimited Fund
• Fitness Council Fund
• Fresno Leading Young Professionals
• Focus Forward Fund
• Fresno Business Council Fund
• Fresno Madera Continuum of Care Fund
• Friends of the Fresno County Library Endowment
• FSU Swim Fund
• Heritage Fresno Fund
• Tekla Johnson Charitable Fund
• Central California Latina Network Fund
• Latino Center Fund
• Mental Health America of the Central Valley
• Shinzen Friendship Garden Endowment Fund
• Sierra Foothill Conservancy Fund
• Sisterhood of Survivors
• Tower Trust
• United Cerebral Palsy of Central Calif Fund
• Westside Tule Enterprise Community

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Funds designated for specific projects

• Art At The Airport Fund
• Hope for the Holidays
• Vally Visions Fund for UCSF Fresno
• Howard K. Watkins Photographic Archive Fund

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Field of interest funds

• ACT Endowment Youth-Based Programs Fund
• Air Quality Fund
• Art Education Fund
• Arts and Cultural Advancement Fund
• Arts to Zoo Fund
• Lee and Shelley Ayres Music for Children Fund
• Mae Bell Fund for Care of the Elderly
• Blue Cross Rural Health Initiative Fund
• Children's Health Benefits Fund
• Community Education and Leadership Fund
• Crisis Fund for the Central Valley
• Departed Angels Fund
• Forward Fresno Foundation
• Fresno Unified School District Education Foundation
• Fresno Unified School District Scholarship Fund
• Friends of Fresno State Fund
• GABY-Grants Advisory Board For Youth
• Elka Gundelfinger Memorial Cultural & Health Care Fund
• Louis Gundelfinger Memorial Fund for Parks and Music
• Lulu & Herbert Gundelfinger Memorial Fund for Arts
• Minnie R. Gundelfinger Fund for Human Services
• Hispanic Employees Association of PG&E Fund
• Human Services Fund
• Parkinson's Support Fund
• Clare Lauche Porter Charitable Dance Fund
• Psychiatry Training Program UCSF Fresno Fund
• Fred Rau Charitable Fund for neglected children
• Raymond Harvey Music Fund
• Youth Advancement Fund
• John D. Romano Friends of the Sightless
• Teen Pregnancy Prevention Fund
• Youth Education Endowment Fund

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Support organization

• Lyles Support Organization
• Board Discretionary Funds
• Administrative Endowment Fund
• Bee Endowment Fund
• Berven Charitable Fund
• Board of Directors' Fund for the Common Good
• George W. Sims Undesignated Endowment Fund

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Grantmaking stories

Read Fresno is a project of One by One Leadership with the vision that every child will read at grade level by third grade. Through Read Fresno, children participating in reading improvement programs receive new books, encouragement, and opportunities to thrive.

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