· Private foundation
De la Pena Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIRECTORIO DEMOCRATICO CUBANO | $90,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| INSTITUTO CUBANO POR LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESION Y PRENSA | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UNION POR CUBA LIBRE | $10,000 |
| BELEN JESUIT PREP SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PLANTADOS UNTIL FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY IN CUBA | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR A FREE CUBA | $10,000 |
| ORDER OF MALTA CUBAN ASSOC IN EXILE | $10,000 |
| OUTREACH AID TO THE AMERICAS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS | $5,000 |
| COMPASS AVIATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- DDDirectorio Democratico Cubano Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $381k · revenue +3%
- YAYoung America's Foundation5× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +49%
- UPUnion Por Cuba Libre Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +163% · 58% of their budget
Funded once
- EPEX PRESAS POLITICAS VICTIMAS DELone grant, 2022 · $51k
- AMAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE CUBANone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SEST EDWARD CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Center for Cuban Studies is a non-profit,educational and cultural exchange institution. Founded in 1972, it is dedicated to providing information about contemporary Cuba and contributing to a normalization of relations between Cuba and…
Promote education to citizens
Inventario is an organization dedicated to facilitating access to open data and public information about cuba. we are an independent, non-profit media company that combines accurate and investigative journalism techniques, open culture and…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to educate the public on alternatives that lead to a free, sovereign, inclusive and prosperous cuba that provides opportunities for all of its citizens to fulfill their aspirations.
To provide free and uncensored access to communication and unbiased news for all Cubans, with channels that are accessible and legal in both the US and Cuba.
Strengthening the humanistic political culture with the purpose of promoting democracy and defense of fundamental human rights, based on values of solidarity
Organization dedicated to the advocacy of human rights. to the promotion of democratic values and to raise the awareness of cuba's reality under totalitarianism.
Historic preservation
Promote human rights and democracy in the Americas.
Defend and promotes human rights in cuba.
Promote democracy and Human Rights
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cuban Studies Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Directorio Democratico Cubano Inc ↗
- Who funds Free Society Project Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTO CUBANO POR LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESION Y PRENSA INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds Union Por Cuba Libre Inc ↗
- Who funds IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH AID TO THE AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds Center for a Free Cuba ↗
- Who funds CUBAN STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANTADOS UNTIL FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY IN CUBA INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds OPUS CARITATIS INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS AVIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Endowment for Democracy · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization De la Pena Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Outreach Aid to the Americas — 9% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.