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Ernest Prete Jr Foundation at a glance

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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.

$189k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$814kEnvironment$615kAnimals$120kHousing & Shelter$96kFood & Nutrition$73kHealth$53kHuman Services$52kScience & Tech$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CREATIVE VISIONS$5,000
SAHAAS FOR CAUSE$5,000
ALAPIO$5,000
LEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE$5,000
CITY OF SANTA PAULA$1,500
ARPAN GLOBAL CHARITIES$1,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANEKANT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%DEBO INC: $200 → 14%DEBO INC: $200 → 14%LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $10k → 14%SAHAAS FOR CAUSE: $5k → 14%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 18 repeat orgs$291k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
16

Total granted

$1.6M
$254k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+16%

Still filing today

28%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalReligionOther
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

  • CP
    CAL POLY POMONA - K12 PARTNERSHIP
    4× · 2019–2025 · $494k
  • CS
    CALIF STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA
    3× · 2017–2023 · $307k
  • G
    GLAZA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $300k

Funded once

  • CP
    CAL POLY POMONA - FELLOWS PROGRAM
    one grant, 2024 · $106k
  • CP
    CALPOLY POMONA - PHILANTROPIC FOUND
    one grant, 2022 · $83k
  • CP
    CALPOLY POMONA - GIFT PROCESSING
    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
Escuela Sarang

Provide aid to underprivileged children

Youth Development
2
Jovenes Inc

To facilitate the transition of homeless, at risk youth and the poor to establish stable grounds and become independent.

Human Services
3
Los Angeles Children's Charity Group

To assist orphan and neglected children with food, clothing and basic necessities.

Human Services
4
Cans for a Cause

Providing Assistance to Underprivileged in Compton

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5
The Miracle House Foundation

Mentorship and housing assistant for women returning from incarceration

Human Services
6
Sjom Inc

To conduct certain outreach and other ministries benefitting the less fortunate of los angeles, california

Religion
7
Sai Shiva Charitable Tr
Philanthropy
8
Dayenu Shelters America

We provide housing solutions for low to moderate income level individuals and families throughout california.

Community Improvement
9
Cover the Homeless Ministry

This organization provides clothing, food, and medical services to low income citizens in various areas of southern california and reunite them with family

Human Services
10
El Centro De Ayuda

To promote social emotional and economic self-sufficiency through a continum of human services.

Health
11
Oxnard Homeless Prevntion
Human Services
12
Global Relief

We provide clothing and necessities for the poor and homeless.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope the Mission; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAL POLY POMONA - K12 PARTNERSHIP: $493,840 · OtherCAL POLY POMONA - K12 PARTNERSHIPCALIF STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA: $307,000 · OtherCALIF STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONAGLAZA: $300,000 · OtherGLAZACAL POLY POMONA - COLLEGE OF SCIENC: $128,000 · OtherCAL POLY POMONA - COLLEGE OF SCIENCCAL POLY POMONA - FELLOWS PROGRAM: $105,735 · OtherCAL POLY POMONA - FELLOWS PROGRAMHOPE OF THE VALLEY: $88,625 · OtherCALPOLY POMONA - PHILANTROPIC FOUND: $83,003 · OtherCAL POLY SAN LUIS OBISPO: $72,000 · Other+17 more: $208,903 · Other+17 moreHOPE THE MISSION: $30,300 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $10,000 · Human ServicesANEKANT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesSAAHAS FOR CAUSE: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $400 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $39,000 · EducationLEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC: $16,000 · Education+1 more: $400 · EducationArpan Global Charities: $7,000 · HealthA THOUSAND JOYS INC: $2,000 · HealthManu Foundation Inc: $1,000 · HealthJESUS KNOWS MY NAME MINISTRY: $5,000 · ReligionValley Community Legal Foundation of the San Fernando Valley Bar Assoc: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,787,106Human Services$55,700Education$55,400Health$10,000Religion$5,000Crime & Legal$1,000

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 budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $39,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION: $30,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANEKANT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetArpan Global Charities: $7,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetJESUS KNOWS MY NAME MINISTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetA THOUSAND JOYS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetValley Community Legal Foundation of the San Fernando Valley Bar Assoc: $1,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetManu Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWATTS LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $400 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 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 ↗

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.

California Community …Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Prete Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ernest Prete Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ernest Prete Jr Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ernest Prete Jr Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 38 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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