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.

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.

Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc

Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$157k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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

02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $55k
$10k–50k12 grants · $224k
$50k–250k3 grants · $261k

$10,453

Median grant

States reached

$19M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RES HOSP	$156,794
LUCILLE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHIL	$52,265
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY	$52,265
SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$34,843
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH	$34,843
SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA	$34,843
HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY	$20,906
NIKE ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION	$17,422
NEWBORN HOPE	$13,955
WOUNDED WARRIOR	$13,937
THE MICHAEL J KELLY JR AND YOLANDA	$11,873
CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION	$10,453
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$10,453
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION	$10,453
ASPCA	$10,453

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 34 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%

+18%

Still filing today

56%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $372k · revenue +125%
SF
SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
6× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +7%
HS
HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY
7× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +64%

Funded once

SV
SILICON VALLEY CREATES
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -23%
PH
PRESENTATION HIGH SCHOOL SAN JOSE
one grant, 2018 · $1k
SC
ST CHRISTOPHER CHURCH
one grant, 2022 · $1k

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.

The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health

Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative

Health

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Junior League of Colorado Springs. 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

22 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. 22 of the 40 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/22

Grantees still filing

14/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$509,558Health$445,747Animals$135,581Arts & Culture$89,843Human Services$42,164Recreation & Sports$20,453Food & Nutrition$16,969

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

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.

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 →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ernest and Irene Pestana Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get 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 · 0–40%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home