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Fermanian Family Foundation at a glance

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Fermanian Family Foundation

To carry out and support charitable, educational & religious purposes under irc 501(c)(3) & to support & operate for the benefit of the san diego foundation.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Fermanian Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The San Diego Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

Philanthropy$9.4MHousing & Shelter$127kReligion$57kHealth$8kRecreation & Sports$8kInternational$2k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,459,241
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION$1,459,241
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LAZARIAN WORLD HOMES: $127k → 8%SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSN: $675 → 11%RADIANT LIFE CHURCH: $15k → 12%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $4k → 15%PROJECT CURE: $7k → 8%ATHLETES IN ACTION: $2k → 9%MT CARMEL CHURCH: $5k → 11%CAPITAL CHRISTIAN CENTER: $5k → 12%ATHLETES IN ACTION: $2k → 9%LA JOLLA COMMUNITY CHURCH: $10k → 11%SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $2.1M → 11%SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 11%SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 11%SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1.4M → 11%SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1.4M → 11%SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $517k → 11%SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $369k → 11%ROCK CHURCH: $5k → 11%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
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.

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Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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2
Mexican Medical Inc

Bring healing and hope to the people of mexico.

International
3
Sandler Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…

Philanthropy
4
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
5
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
6
Vida Joven Foundation

We transform the lives of orphaned and migrant children in Baja California, Mexico by resourcing and strengthening exceptional programs that serve these young people.

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7
San Diego Charitable Real Estate Foundation

See schedule o.the exempt purpose of san diego charitable real estate foundation is to support san diego foundation in its mission to promote and increase responsible and effective philanthropy by accepting, managing and marketing real…

Community Improvement
8
Fondation Sante
Science & Tech
9
The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation

Founded in 1995 as the official charity of the los angeles dodgers, the los angeles dodgers foundation (the foundation) is bigger than baseball, envisioning a city where everyone, regardless of zip code, has the opportunity to thrive. they…

Recreation & Sports
10
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
11
St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.

Health
12
Soundforgers International

Soundforgers international's mission is to strengthen the emerging church and emerging worship culture in unreached regions, through the development and distribution of resources, education, training, and partnerships, with a particular…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth With a Mission - San Diegobaja; the most unlike its peers is Lazarian World Homes Inc. 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

8 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. 8 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $9,408,576 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION+2 more: $1,175 · PhilanthropyLazarian World Homes Inc: $127,000 · InternationalRADIANT LIFE CHURCH: $15,410 · OtherLA JOLLA COMMUNITY CHURCH INC: $10,000 · OtherROCK CHURCH OF COASTAL HILLS: $5,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO MOUNT CARMEL CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE: $5,000 · OtherCAPITAL CHRISTIAN CENTER: $5,000 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC: $4,000 · OtherYOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJA: $16,215 · ReligionBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $7,400 · HealthFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $3,700 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH WITHOUT BORDERS INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$9,409,751International$127,000Other$44,410Religion$16,215Health$7,400Youth Development$3,700Human Services$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $9,408,576 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetLazarian World Homes Inc: $127,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $7,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $3,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH WITHOUT BORDERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $675 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $500 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.

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.

The San Diego Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Fermanian Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fermanian Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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 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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