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Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$540k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2024
27
Organizations funded FY2023
11%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,453
Largest grant, FY2024
$156,794
Organizations funded a year
25 to 27
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$19M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving26$540k4%
FY202327$155k11%
FY202226$133k4%
FY202127$124k15%
FY202025$131k12%
FY201926$85k8%
FY201826$93kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$920kAnimals$161kHuman Services$38kArts & Culture$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kRecreation & Sports$20kYouth Development$19kFood & Nutrition$17kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
OK

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$371,79470%
Sarcoma Foundation of America$79,84361%
Nike Animal Rescue Foundation$47,422712%
Blood Cancer United Inc$41,00070%
Humane Society Silicon Valley$38,20670%
Newborn Hope Incorporated$31,960711%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$25,45370%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$24,50070%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$23,45370%
American Heart Association Inc$23,45370%
California State Parks Foundation$20,45370%
Meals on Wheels America$16,96970%
International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America$16,21140%
Shepherds Gate$11,00030%
Silicon Valley Creates$10,00010%
San Jose Downtown Foundation$10,00077%
March of Dimes Inc$7,00060%
Local Color$3,00030%
Bellarmine College Preparatory$3,0002n/a
Path$2,50050%
PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital$2,00020%
Presentation High School San Jose$1,0001n/a
Junior League of Colorado Springs$1,00011%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$50010%
The Salvation Army$2002n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($448k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $371,794 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSarcoma Foundation of America: $79,843 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNike Animal Rescue Foundation: $47,422 over 7y, 12% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $41,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society Silicon Valley: $38,206 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNewborn Hope Incorporated: $31,960 over 7y, 11% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $25,453 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $24,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $23,453 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $23,453 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State Parks Foundation: $20,453 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels America: $16,969 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $16,211 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetShepherds Gate: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSilicon Valley Creates: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSan Jose Downtown Foundation: $10,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLocal Color: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPath: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Colorado Springs: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $540,260 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (73%), Animals (13%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($372k), Sarcoma Foundation of America ($80k), Nike Animal Rescue Foundation ($47k).
Does Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable 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 Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, American Endowment Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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