· Private foundation
Ernest Prete Jr Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAL POLY POMONA - K12 PARTNERSHIP | $105,000 |
| HOPE OF THE VALLEY | $30,000 |
| YOUTH EMPOWERMENT STUDIOS FOUNDATIO | $11,950 |
| LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH | $10,000 |
| CAL POLY POMONA - BIOTREK MAINTENAN | $10,000 |
| ALAPIO | $5,000 |
| CREATIVE VISIONS | $5,000 |
| SAHAAS FOR CAUSE | $5,000 |
| LEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE | $5,000 |
| CITY OF SANTA PAULA | $1,500 |
| ARPAN GLOBAL CHARITIES | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- CPCAL POLY POMONA - K12 PARTNERSHIP4× · 2019–2025 · $494k
- CSCALIF STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA3× · 2017–2023 · $307k
- GGLAZA5× · 2020–2024 · $300k
Funded once
- CPCAL POLY POMONA - FELLOWS PROGRAMone grant, 2024 · $106k
- CPCALPOLY POMONA - PHILANTROPIC FOUNDone grant, 2022 · $83k
- CPCALPOLY POMONA - GIFT PROCESSINGone 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.
Provide aid to underprivileged children
To facilitate the transition of homeless, at risk youth and the poor to establish stable grounds and become independent.
To assist orphan and neglected children with food, clothing and basic necessities.
Providing Assistance to Underprivileged in Compton
Mentorship and housing assistant for women returning from incarceration
To conduct certain outreach and other ministries benefitting the less fortunate of los angeles, california
We provide housing solutions for low to moderate income level individuals and families throughout california.
This organization provides clothing, food, and medical services to low income citizens in various areas of southern california and reunite them with family
To promote social emotional and economic self-sufficiency through a continum of human services.
We provide clothing and necessities for the poor and homeless.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope the Mission and the most unlike its peers is Jesus Knows My Name Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 38 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 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
- Who funds LEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds ANEKANT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Arpan Global Charities ↗
- Who funds SAAHAS FOR CAUSE ↗
- Who funds JESUS KNOWS MY NAME MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds A THOUSAND JOYS INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Community Legal Foundation of the San Fernando Valley Bar Assoc ↗
- Who funds Manu Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DEBO INC ↗
- Who funds WATTS LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION 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: California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Ernest Prete Jr Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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