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Ferrero Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ferrero Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$140kReligion$28kYouth Development$26kCommunity Improvement$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kHealth$9kArts & Culture$9kEducation$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$750
Median grant
1
States reached
$57k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA DE AMPARO$6,000
NOAH HOMES$750
NICE GUYS$750
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 (FY17–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Casa de Amparo: $28k → 11%Casa de Amparo: $27k → 11%Casa de Amparo: $13k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $11k → 11%Casa de Amparo: $1k → 11%NOAH Homes: $2k → 11%NOAH Homes: $1k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $1k → 11%NOAH HOMES: $750 → 11%NOAH Homes: $500 → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $500 → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $10k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $6k → 11%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$209k · 9 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$209k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+63%

Still filing today

44%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • CD
    Casa De Amparo
    6× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +17%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · $8k · revenue +11%
  • NH
    NOAH HOMES INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • MB
    Mission Bascillus San Diego de Alca
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
  • TA
    THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +63%
  • PO
    PATRONS OF THE PRADOgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +35%
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
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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2
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
3
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
4
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
5
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
6
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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,…

Health
9
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
10
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
11
Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc

Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.

Unclassified
12
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Amparo; the most unlike its peers is The Galway University Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Nice Guys of San Diego: $35,555 · OtherNice Guys of San DiegoNICE GUYS: $25,970 · OtherNICE GUYSCHURCH OF THE NATIVITY: $21,600 · OtherCHURCH OF THE NATIVITYOne San Diego Foundaton: $13,450 · OtherOne San Diego FoundatonMission Bascillus San Diego de Alca: $6,500 · OtherMission Bascillus San Diego de AlcaThe Vision of Children: $5,000 · Other+8 more: $8,100 · Other+8 moreCasa De Amparo: $95,445 · Human ServicesCasa De AmparoNOAH HOMES INC: $5,750 · Human ServicesNOAH HOMES INCSAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Crime & LegalHOME START INC: $500 · Crime & LegalTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GALWAY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,200 · EducationPATRONS OF THE PRADO: $3,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,000 · HealthQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $800 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 · Health
Other$116,175Human Services$101,195Crime & Legal$8,500Arts & Culture$5,000Education$3,700Philanthropy$3,000Health$1,900

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCasa De Amparo: $95,445 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNOAH HOMES INC: $5,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Vision of Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPATRONS OF THE PRADO: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GALWAY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME START INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEC SEABEE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 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 San Diego Foundat…The Cushman FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Jewish Community Foun…Sempra FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
The San Diego FoundationCA17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Ferrero Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ferrero Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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