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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.1MEnvironment$745kHuman Services$707kYouth Development$314kCivil Rights$293kAnimals$264kCommunity Improvement$197kHealth$102kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $408k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $753k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOUCHING MIAMI WITH LOVE$130,000
TRUE RIDGE FOUNDATION$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
CARE ELEMENTARY$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
02The need
03

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COCONUT GROVE CARES: $20k → 15%TRUE RIDGE FOUNDATION: $150k → 12%JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $100k → 13%COCONUT GROVE CARES: $14k → 15%TRUE RIDGE FOUNDATION: $100k → 12%JACK & JILL CENTER: $100k → 13%JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $75k → 13%TRUE RIDGE: $35k → 12%JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $40k → 13%COCONUT GROVE CARES: $1k → 15%PROJECT MOTHERPATH: $10k → 15%GENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN: $1k → 15%WHISPERING MANES: $521 → 15%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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 25 repeat orgs$835k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
31

Total granted

$3.3M
$457k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
0%

Still filing today

68%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $378k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationAnimalsCrime & LegalHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JA
    JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $315k · revenue +5%
  • TM
    TOUCHING MIAMI WITH LOVE MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $314k · revenue +102%
  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER
    5× · 2018–2025 · $293k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • TS
    TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2018 · $60k
  • SL
    SAN LUIS OBISPO CLASSICAL ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +41%
  • AR
    AMERICAN ROAD & TRANSPORTATION BUIL
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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.

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.

1
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
3
Wildcoast

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.…

Environment
4
South Carolina Aquarium

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.

Animals
5
Paso Pacifico

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.

Animals
6
Conservation Florida Inc

Conservation florida's mission is to permanently protect florida's water, wildlife, and wild places - the places that make florida home.

Environment
7
Upwell Turtles

To protect and recover endangered populations of turtles by reducing threats at sea.

Animals
8
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
9
Tenngreen Land Conservancy

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.

Recreation & Sports
10
Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
11
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
12
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whispering Manes Therapeutic Riding Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 71 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
24/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARE ELEMENTARY: $405,000 · OtherCARE ELEMENTARYST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC: $150,000 · OtherST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INCFIU FOUNDATION - TROPICAL CONSERVATION: $120,000 · OtherFIU FOUNDATION - TROPICAL CONSERVATIONIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI KULULA PROGRAM: $76,000 · OtherARTBA TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherTAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN OF FLORIDA: $60,000 · OtherICU Baby Inc: $79,054 · OtherTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $75,521 · Other+37 more: $582,198 · Other+37 moreJACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $315,000 · Human ServicesJACK AND JILL CHI…True Ridge: $285,000 · Human ServicesTrue RidgeCOCONUT GROVE CARES INC: $35,041 · Human ServicesCOCONUT GROVE CAR…+3 more: $11,562 · Human ServicesConserving Carolina: $205,000 · EnvironmentConserving Caro…CAYUCOS LAND CONSERVANCY: $160,000 · EnvironmentCAYUCOS LAND CO…Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy: $90,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Appala…VENTANA WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $85,000 · EnvironmentVENTANA WILDERN…+2 more: $25,350 · EnvironmentFRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY INC: $206,000 · EducationFRENCH BROA…University of Miami: $106,500 · EducationUniversity …SAN LUIS OBISPO CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationSAN LUIS OB…Open Doors of Asheville Inc: $40,000 · EducationOpen Doors …Hanger Hall School Inc: $30,000 · EducationHanger Hall…AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $292,706 · Crime & LegalAMERICANS …RESTORATIVE PARTNERS INC: $100,000 · Crime & LegalRESTORATIV…TOUCHING MIAMI WITH LOVE MINISTRIES INC: $314,000 · Youth DevelopmentFINAL RUN RESCUE: $60,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP: $44,642 · AnimalsBlue Ridge Humane Society Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsPASADENA HUMANE: $5,250 · Animals
Other$1,722,773Human Services$646,603Environment$565,350Education$432,500Crime & Legal$392,706Youth Development$314,000Animals$129,892

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $315,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTOUCHING MIAMI WITH LOVE MINISTRIES INC: $314,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $292,706 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTrue Ridge: $285,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetFRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY INC: $206,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetConserving Carolina: $205,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCAYUCOS LAND CONSERVANCY: $160,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $106,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORATIVE PARTNERS INC: $100,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSouthern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy: $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVENTANA WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $85,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetICU Baby Inc: $79,054 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $75,521 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFINAL RUN RESCUE: $60,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFEET IN 2 WORLDS INC: $45,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP: $44,642 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Doors of Asheville Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOCONUT GROVE CARES INC: $35,041 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetHanger Hall School Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO: $15,038 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBlue Ridge Humane Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT MOTHERPATH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRiverLink Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSLOW FOOD MIAMI: $3,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetST ALBAN'S DAY NURSERY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN INC: $1,041 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF SMALL FOUNDATIONS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHISPERING MANES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $521 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENGAGE MIAMI INC: $521 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 Community Foundat…The Miami Foundation …Bailey Family Foundat…Community Foundation …Mightycause Charitabl…Hunter Hometown Found…The Frances & William…James a and Mayme H R…Richard Eckerd Founda…Dogwood Health TrustUnited Way Miami IncFoundation for the Ca…
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC22.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 71 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-PF 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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