· Private foundation
Lillian & Luis Fernandez 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $565k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC | $500,000 |
| THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC | $205,000 |
| THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC | $100,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $60,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| WENDY NOVAK DIABETES INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH | $50,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION | $25,000 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| MASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| WESTMINSTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of Lillian & Luis Fernandez Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 33%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TZTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +140%
TRINITY COLLEGE5× · 2017–2024 · $715k · revenue +31%- WPWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC2× · 2022–2024 · $260k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +14%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds MASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lillian & Luis Fernandez Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lillian & Luis Fernandez Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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