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Fernandez Pave the Way 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $408k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $753k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOUCHING MIAMI WITH LOVE | $130,000 |
| CARE ELEMENTARY | $100,000 |
| TRUE RIDGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| FRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY | $86,000 |
| CONSERVING CAROLINA | $80,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $56,500 |
| SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONS | $50,000 |
| BISCAYNE NATURE CENTER | $50,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS | $47,080 |
| PYRENEES RESCUE OF WNC | $40,000 |
| RESTORATIVE PARTNERS INC | $40,000 |
| HANGER HALL SCHOOL INC | $30,000 |
| FINAL RUN RESCUE | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $647k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 14 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $378k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JAJACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC4× · 2018–2024 · $315k · revenue +5%
- TMTOUCHING MIAMI WITH LOVE MINISTRIES INC3× · 2019–2025 · $314k · revenue +102%
- AFAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER5× · 2018–2025 · $293k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TSTAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN OF FLORIDAone grant, 2018 · $60k
- ARAMERICAN ROAD & TRANSPORTATION BUILone grant, 2024 · $50k
- SLSAN LUIS OBISPO CLASSICAL ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.
We apply principles of ecology to ensure that our innovative programs integrate advances in scientific and economic understanding to ensure the viability of coastal forests and the livelihoods of the people who live in them.
Conservation florida's mission is to permanently protect florida's water, wildlife, and wild places - the places that make florida home.
To protect and recover endangered populations of turtles by reducing threats at sea.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
To champion a collaborative campaign to permanently connect, protect and restore the Florida Wildlife Corridor, a statewide network of lands and waters that supports wildlife and people. We combine conservation science with compelling…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whispering Manes Therapeutic Riding Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Motherpath Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TOUCHING MIAMI WITH LOVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds True Ridge ↗
- Who funds FRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Conserving Carolina ↗
- Who funds CAYUCOS LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds RESTORATIVE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds VENTANA WILDERNESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ICU Baby Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FINAL RUN RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds Open Doors of Asheville Inc ↗
- Who funds COCONUT GROVE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds Hanger Hall School Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE PISGAH CONSERVANCY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Hunter Hometown Foundation · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · James a and Mayme H Rowland Foundation · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · United Way Miami Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Icu Baby Inc — 1% of income from government
- St Thomas University Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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