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· Private foundation
FERRERO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$8k
Granted FY2024
3
Grants
1
Communities
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of FERRERO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
supportsabused children
2019
supportscare
2020
cancer
2021
cancer
2022
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2023
marine
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$750
Median grant
1
States reached
$57k
Total assets
Largest grants
- CASA DE AMPARO$6,000
- NICE GUYS$750
- NOAH HOMES$750
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$209k · 9 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
16
Total granted
$209k
$31k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+44%
+33%
Still filing today
33%
31%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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
- CDCasa de Amparo6× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +44%
- SDSan Diego Police Foundation4× · 2017–2022 · $8k · revenue +38%
- NHNOAH Homes6× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- MBMission Bascillus San Diego de Alcaone grant, 2018 · $7k
- LPLaJolla Playhouseone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TVThe Vision of Children Foundationone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Uc San Diego Foundation
To advocate and raise private support for the university of california san diego, for the purpose of its research, teaching and public service mission.
Education
2
San Diego Museum of Art
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
Arts & Culture
3
American Chemical Society - San Diego
Promotion, awareness and support in the field of chemistry
Science & Tech
4
San Diego Harbor Police Foundation Inc
To improve public safety by providing critical resources to help fund community awareness, officer wellness specialized training and advanced technology
Philanthropy
5
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation
To advance UC Santa Barbara's capacity to educate future generations, unlock new discoveries, and enrich California and the world.
Education
6
San Diego Opera Association
The mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community engagement and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as part of its…
Arts & Culture
7
Zoological Society of San Diego
An international, nonprofit conservation organization with two front doors: the san diego zoo and the san diego zoo safari park, we integrate wildlife health and care, science, and education to develop sustainable conservation solutions.
Animals
8
San Diego Biomedical Research Institute
The SDBRI mission is to find new ways to predict and prevent cancer, diabetes, autoimmune disease, neurological disorders and HIV infection, and to accelerate medical advances that maintain health and improve quality of life.
Health
9
San Diego Society of Natural History
To interpret the natural world through research, education and exhibits; to promote understanding of the evolution and diversity of southern california and the peninsula of baja california; and to inspire in all a respect for nature and…
Arts & Culture
10
Associated Students of Sdsu
To support the mission of san diego state university and create, promote, and fund (see sch o) opportunities for students, faculty, staff and the sdsu community.
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11
Voice of San Diego
Investigative journalism for a better san diego.
Arts & Culture
12
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Basic research in the following: molecular biology & genetics, neuroscience, and plant biology.
Science & Tech
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Amparo and the most unlike its peers is Queen's North Hawaii Community Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$122,675Human Services$101,195Crime & Legal$8,000Education$3,700Philanthropy$3,000Health$900
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.
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.
David C Copley FoundationCA13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: David C Copley Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation FERRERO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Patrons Of the Prado.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~18 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 330764923 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Patrons Of the Prado, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 18 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Ferrero Family Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Ferrero Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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