· Private foundation
FEMSA Foundation Inc
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.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $364k
- $250k+11 grants · $6.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE | $1,343,302 |
| AVINA AMERICAS INC | $900,000 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $679,504 |
| Individual grant recipient | $565,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $557,495 |
| NESTA | $550,000 |
| WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE | $500,000 |
| AVINA AMERICAS INC | $500,000 |
| SESAME WORKSHOP | $456,263 |
| GLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE | $341,053 |
| FUNDACION UNITED WAY COLOMBIA | $300,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIO | $150,000 |
| WATER ORG INC | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN AND NATURE NETWORK | $60,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN CHILE INC | $54,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 88% of grant dollars ($6.2M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($850k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 12% of all-years giving ($850k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds AVINA AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN CHILE 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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization FEMSA Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from FEMSA Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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