· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $700k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARAS OF THE AMERICAS | $300,000 |
| DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT | $150,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO | $100,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $100,000 |
| DIABETES RESEARCH CONNECTION | $50,000 |
| RADY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION- SAN DIEGO | $50,000 |
| MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT | $50,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO | $25,000 |
| BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 34% of Fernandez Buddin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCARAS OF THE AMERICAS4× · 2021–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +909%
- DRDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $400k · revenue +20%
- DRDIABETES RESEARCH CONNECTION3× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGOone grant, 2025 · $125k · revenue 0%
- BFBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMYone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
To facilitate research into the treatment, monitoring, diagnosis and prevention of diabetes.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The mission of the American Diabetes Association is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
How this is measured
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 9 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 CARAS OF THE AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fernandez Buddin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fernandez Buddin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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