New York · 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.
- $288k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations De la Pena Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $236k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $211k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $182k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $210k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $216k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $162k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Directorio Democratico Cubano Inc | $381,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Free Society Project Inc | $139,000 | 3 | 78% |
| Instituto Cubano Por la Libertad de Expresion y Prensa Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 18% |
| Young America's Foundation | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Union Por Cuba Libre Inc | $48,000 | 6 | 58% |
| Ignatian Spirituality Center Inc | $32,300 | 2 | 2% |
| Outreach Aid to the Americas | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Edward Catholic Church | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for a Free Cuba | $15,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Cuban Studies Institute Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 6% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Directorio Democratico Cubano Inc | $381,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Free Society Project Inc | $139,000 | 3 | 78% |
| Instituto Cubano Por la Libertad de Expresion y Prensa Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 18% |
| Young America's Foundation | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Union Por Cuba Libre Inc | $48,000 | 6 | 58% |
| Ignatian Spirituality Center Inc | $32,300 | 2 | 2% |
| Outreach Aid to the Americas | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Edward Catholic Church | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for a Free Cuba | $15,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Cuban Studies Institute Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Plantados Until Freedom and Democracy in Cuba Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Opus Caritatis Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jackson Health Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Opus Caritatis Corp | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Navigators | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Diocese of St Augustine | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Compass Aviation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| University of Miami | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Miami Dade College Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($353k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
De la Pena Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
About De la Pena Foundation Inc
- How much does De la Pena Foundation Inc give?
- De la Pena Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $288,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does De la Pena Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (50%), Religion (14%), Education (13%).
- Who are De la Pena Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Directorio Democratico Cubano Inc ($381k), Free Society Project Inc ($139k), Instituto Cubano Por la Libertad de Expresion y Prensa Inc ($75k).
- Does De la Pena Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does De la Pena Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as De la Pena Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Endowment for Democracy, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is De la Pena Foundation Inc based?
- De la Pena Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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