North Carolina · Private foundation
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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 76%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $130,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 76% of the organizations Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $497k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $1.2M | 48% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $1.1M | 76% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $753k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $525k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $553k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc | $315,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Touching Miami With Love Ministries Inc | $314,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Americans for Immigrant Justice Inc F/K/A Fla Immigrant Advocacy Center | $292,706 | 5 | 2% |
| True Ridge | $285,000 | 3 | 23% |
| French Broad River Academy Inc | $206,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Conserving Carolina | $205,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Cayucos Land Conservancy | $160,000 | 2 | 20% |
| St Thomas University Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Miami | $106,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Restorative Partners Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation
- How much does Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation give?
- Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $1,182,385 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Environment (18%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc ($315k), Touching Miami With Love Ministries Inc ($314k), Americans for Immigrant Justice Inc F/K/A Fla Immigrant Advocacy Center ($293k).
- Does Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 76% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fernandez Pave the Way 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, The Miami Foundation Inc, Bailey Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation based?
- Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation is based in NC.
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