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De la Pena Foundation Inc at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Civil Rights$679kReligion$191kEducation$177kArts & Culture$91kPublic Benefit$61kInternational$61kHealth$26kHuman Services$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $126k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BELEN JESUIT PREP SCHOOL$10,000
OUTREACH AID TO THE AMERICAS$10,000
ORDER OF MALTA CUBAN ASSOC IN EXILE$10,000
CENTER FOR A FREE CUBA$10,000
UNION POR CUBA LIBRE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
PLANTADOS UNTIL FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY IN CUBA$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS$5,000
COMPASS AVIATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY CENTER: $17k → 15%IGNATIAN SPRITUALITY CENTER: $15k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MI
NY
CA
VA
NC
DC
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$966k · 16 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
23

Total granted

$966k
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+66%

Still filing today

63%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DD
    Directorio Democratico Cubano Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $381k · revenue +3%
  • YA
    Young America's Foundation
    5× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +49%
  • UP
    Union Por Cuba Libre Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +163% · 58% of their budget

Funded once

  • EP
    EX PRESAS POLITICAS VICTIMAS DEL
    one grant, 2022 · $51k
  • AM
    AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE CUBAN
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • SE
    ST EDWARD CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Center for Cuban Studiesinc

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…

Social Science
2
University of Miami
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3
Libertatis

Promote education to citizens

—
4
Inventario

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Cuba Study Group Inc

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.

Civil Rights
6
Agora Cuba Inc

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.

International
7
Humanist Political Culture and Democracy Corp

Strengthening the humanistic political culture with the purpose of promoting democracy and defense of fundamental human rights, based on values of solidarity

International
8
Mar Por Cuba Inc

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.

International
9
Cuba Friends of Architecture I

Historic preservation

Arts & Culture
10
Fundacion Para La Democracia Panamerican Corp

Promote human rights and democracy in the Americas.

International
11
Cubalex

Defend and promotes human rights in cuba.

International
12
Cuba Independiente Inc

Promote democracy and Human Rights

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cuban Studies Institute Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IGNATIAN SPIRITUAL CENTER: $85,500 · OtherIGNATIAN SPIRITUAL CENTERYoung America's Foundation: $55,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationEX PRESAS POLITICAS VICTIMAS DEL: $51,000 · OtherEX PRESAS POLITICAS VICTIMAS DELBELEN JESUIT PREP SCHOOL: $40,500 · OtherBELEN JESUIT PREP SCHOOLAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE CUBAN: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE CUBANIndividual grant recipient: $21,000 · OtherST EDWARD CATHOLIC CHURCH: $20,000 · Other+27 more: $165,000 · Other+27 moreDirectorio Democratico Cubano Inc: $381,000 · InternationalDirectorio Democratico Cubano IncOUTREACH AID TO THE AMERICAS: $30,000 · InternationalOUTREACH AID TO THE AMERICASCenter for a Free Cuba: $15,500 · International+1 more: $12,500 · InternationalFree Society Project Inc: $139,000 · Arts & CultureFree Society Pr…Union Por Cuba Libre Inc: $48,000 · Arts & CultureUnion Por Cuba …HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $135,000 · EducationHILLSDALE C…+2 more: $4,000 · EducationINSTITUTO CUBANO POR LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESION Y PRENSA INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsIGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY CENTER INC: $32,300 · Human ServicesCOMPASS AVIATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLeadership Institute: $10,000 · Public BenefitJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health
Other$463,000International$439,000Arts & Culture$187,000Education$139,000Civil Rights$75,000Human Services$37,300Public Benefit$10,000Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDirectorio Democratico Cubano Inc: $381,000 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetFree Society Project Inc: $139,000 over 3y, 78% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $135,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTO CUBANO POR LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESION Y PRENSA INC: $75,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Por Cuba Libre Inc: $48,000 over 6y, 58% of budgetIGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY CENTER INC: $32,300 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetOUTREACH AID TO THE AMERICAS: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for a Free Cuba: $15,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCUBAN STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $12,500 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetLeadership Institute: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPUS CARITATIS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS AVIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 PLANTADOS UNTIL FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY IN CUBA INC ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds OPUS CARITATIS INC ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS AVIATION INC ↗

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.

National Endowment fo…The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Endowment for DemocracyDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Endowment for Democracy · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization De la Pena Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from De la Pena Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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