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Federico Mg Charitable Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Animals$230kHealth$14kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$11,363
Median grant
2
States reached
$767k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUNNIES URGENTLY NEEDING SHELTER$16,500
SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK$11,363
WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY$7,500
LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM$7,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY: $8k → 12%CARE 4 PAWS: $4k → 14%UC DAVIS (VETERINARY RESEARCH): $15k → 16%LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM: $3k → 9%LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM: $8k → 7%WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 12%CARE 4 PAWS: $3k → 14%UC DAVIS (VETERINARY RESEARCH): $11k → 16%LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM: $3k → 9%WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 12%RETURN TO FREEDOM INC: $2k → 14%UC DAVIS (VETERINARY RESEARCH): $11k → 16%LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM: $2k → 9%WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 12%HEARTS THERAPEUTIC: $5k → 14%UC DAVIS (VETERINARY RESEARCH): $11k → 16%WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY: $4k → 12%HEARTS THERAPEUTIC: $4k → 14%WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 12%HEARTS THERAPEUTIC: $3k → 14%WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 12%DAWG: $2k → 14%HEARTS THERAPEUTIC: $2k → 14%SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK: $11k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$257k · 10 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +112% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$257k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+112%
+48%

Still filing today

70%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BU
    BUNNIES URGENTLY NEEDING SHELTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $57k · revenue +182%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK
    7× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +351%
  • WH
    WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $32k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • RT
    RETURN TO FREEDOM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +46%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA EQUINE ASSISTANCE AND EVACUATION TEAMgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +58%
  • D
    DAWG
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
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
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
2
Sunset Farms Sanctuary

We provide shelter food and vet care for abandoned abused and neglected animals

Animals
3
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
4
Hope Ranch Animal Sanctuary

Animal rescue

Animals
5
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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6
Boardwalk Pet Rescue

Pet rescue

Animals
7
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
8
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

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9
2 the Rescue Animal Sanctuary Inc

Four million animals are euthanized every year in California alone, and 2 the Rescue Animal Sanctuary is here to lower that number. Our Sanctuary is dedicated to providing a safe haven for the unwanted animals scheduled for unecessary…

Animals
10
Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu
Animals
11
Sparky's Paradise Rescue Ranch

Pet rescue

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12
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Live and Let Live Farm Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cold Noses Warm Hearts. 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUNNIES URGENTLY NEEDING SHELTER: $56,635 · AnimalsBUNNIES URGENTLY NEEDING SHELTERSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK: $39,747 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORKWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $31,759 · AnimalsWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INCSHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED: $18,150 · AnimalsSHADOWS FUND INCORPORATEDLIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC: $15,300 · AnimalsLIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INCCARE4Paws Inc: $13,859 · AnimalsCARE4Paws Inc+3 more: $6,600 · AnimalsUC DAVIS (VETERINARY RESEARCH): $48,300 · OtherUC DAVIS (VETERINARY RESEARCH)HEARTS THERAPEUTIC: $13,900 · OtherHEARTS THERAPEUTICASAP: $8,900 · OtherASAP+1 more: $2,300 · OtherHEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $10,359 · Human Services
Animals$182,050Other$73,400Human Services$10,359

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUNNIES URGENTLY NEEDING SHELTER: $56,635 over 7y, 15% of budgetSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK: $39,747 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $31,759 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED: $18,150 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetLIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC: $15,300 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCARE4Paws Inc: $13,859 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $10,359 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRETURN TO FREEDOM INC: $2,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA EQUINE ASSISTANCE AND EVACUATION TEAM: $2,300 over 1y, 2.7% 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 BUNNIES URGENTLY NEEDING SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds CARE4Paws Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RETURN TO FREEDOM INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA EQUINE ASSISTANCE AND EVACUATION TEAM ↗
  • Who funds COLD NOSES WARM HEARTS ↗

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Bragg Health Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Manitou Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Federico Mg Charitable Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Federico Mg Charitable Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 14 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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