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Formento Family 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.

$209k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$290kReligion$205kPublic Safety & Disaster$83kHuman Services$59kInternational$44kAnimals$9kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $181k
$11,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARYS FOOD BANK$42,500
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$39,500
FOOD FOR THE POOR$38,500
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$38,500
Individual grant recipient$11,000
BILLY'S PLACE$11,000
NPH USA$8,250
THE FRANCISCAN FRIARS$7,500
ALL SEATED IN A BARN$6,000
CONGREGATION OF HOLY CROSS$5,500
TIA FOUNDATION$500
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 (FY22–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BILLY'S PLACE: $17k → 11%BILLY'S PLACE: $16k → 11%BILLY'S PLACE: $15k → 11%BILLY'S PLACE: $11k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$708k · 11 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$708k
$5k

Still filing today

64%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
InternationalReligionFood & NutritionHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • DC
    DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
    4× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +44%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +32%
  • BP
    BILLY'S PLACE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $59k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • NS
    NATIONAL STUTTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $140,500 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INCFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $26,250 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A …THE TIA FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · InternationalTHE TIA FOUNDATION INCCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $83,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESTHE FRANCISCAN FRIARS: $32,250 · OtherTHE FRANCISCAN FRIARSCONGREGATION OF HOLY CROSS: $23,000 · OtherCONGREGATION OF HOLY CROS…Individual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…+1 more: $5,000 · OtherDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $150,000 · ReligionDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR TH…ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $149,500 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALL…BILLY'S PLACE INC: $59,000 · Human ServicesBILLY'S P…ALL SEATED IN A BARN: $9,000 · Animals
International$184,250Other$161,250Religion$150,000Food & Nutrition$149,500Human Services$59,000Animals$9,000

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 budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $150,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $149,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $140,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBILLY'S PLACE INC: $59,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $26,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIA FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetALL SEATED IN A BARN: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds BILLY'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
  • Who funds THE TIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL SEATED IN A BARN ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Formento Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Formento Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 12 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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