How much does Fernandez Buddin Foundation give?

Fernandez Buddin Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $1,035,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Fernandez Buddin Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (53%), Health (33%), Education (10%).

Who are Fernandez Buddin Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Caras of the Americas ($1.9M), Regents of the University of Michigan ($500k), Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc ($400k).

Does Fernandez Buddin Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Fernandez Buddin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is Fernandez Buddin Foundation based?

Fernandez Buddin Foundation is based in DE.

Foundation Dossiers

Delaware · Private foundation

Fernandez Buddin 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 10
Grants FY2025: 7
Organizations funded FY2024: 14%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $300,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 7; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $5.6M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Fernandez Buddin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationPhilanthropy

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	8	$1.0M	25%
FY2024	7	$750k	14%
FY2023	6	$540k	50%
FY2022	2	$150k	50%
FY2021	2	$1.1M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

International$1.9MHealth$1.2MEducation$355kArts & Culture$135k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Caras of the Americas	$1,900,000	4	8%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$500,000	5	n/a
Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc	$400,000	2	2%
Monarch School Project	$355,000	4	3%
Rady Children's Hospital Foundation San Diego	$150,000	3	0%
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego	$125,000	1	7%
Diabetes Research Connection	$100,000	3	3%
Breakthrough T1d	$35,000	2	0%
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy	$10,000	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fernandez Buddin Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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About Fernandez Buddin Foundation

How much does Fernandez Buddin Foundation give?: Fernandez Buddin Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $1,035,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Fernandez Buddin Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (53%), Health (33%), Education (10%).
Who are Fernandez Buddin Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Caras of the Americas ($1.9M), Regents of the University of Michigan ($500k), Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc ($400k).
Does Fernandez Buddin Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fernandez Buddin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Fernandez Buddin Foundation based?: Fernandez Buddin Foundation is based in DE.