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Marcel and Susana Navarro Foundation at a glance

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Marcel and Susana Navarro Foundation

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.

$154k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$92k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$338kPhilanthropy$196kHealth$100kArts & Culture$38kCommunity Improvement$30kHuman Services$5kReligion$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $92k
$11,157
Median grant
2
States reached
$422k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$92,172
PALMER TRINITY SCHOOL$36,685
CARROLLTON SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART$11,157
305 PINK PACK INC$10,000
COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL$2,550
BELMONT UNIVERSITY$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $26k → 16%La Salle Highschool: $103 → 7%Go Fund Me: $500 → 7%NAVARRO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $60k → 15%BELMONT UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation: $54 → 5%Columbus Development: $5k → 15%ST THOMAS: $2k → 9%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $500 → 16%NAVARRO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%ST THOMAS: $600 → 9%NAVARRO FOUNDATION: $40k → 15%NAVARRO FOUNDATION: $35k → 15%CARROLLTON: $20k → 15%CARROLLTON SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART: $11k → 15%CARROLLTON: $11k → 15%CARROLLTON: $10k → 15%CARROLLTON: $10k → 15%Voices for Children: $5k → 15%COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 15%CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 15%CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL: $100 → 15%PALMER TRINITY SCHOOL: $47k → 15%PALMER TRINITY SCHOOL: $37k → 15%Palmer Trinity School: $27k → 15%PALMER TRINITY SCHOOL: $26k → 15%PALMER TRINITY SCHOOL: $24k → 15%PALMER TRINITY SCHOOL: $400 → 15%305 Pink Pack: $15k → 15%305 PINK PACK: $15k → 15%305 PINK PACK INC: $10k → 15%305 Pink Pack: $10k → 15%BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%Baptist Health Foundation: $10k → 15%BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
TN
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$688k · 10 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$688k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+1%

Still filing today

40%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyAnimalsCrime & 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

  • PT
    PALMER TRINITY PRIVATE SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $161k · revenue +64%
  • 3P
    305 Pink Pack Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +173%
  • BC
    BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $27k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • VF
    Voice for Children Inc AKA Voices for Children of Florida
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +12%
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
The Narmont Family Foundation
Philanthropy
2
The Suavecito Foundation
Youth Development
3
The Camargo Foundation
—
4
University of Miami
—
5
Tarver Braddock Foundation
Human Services
6
Alvarez & Marsal Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
7
Brutocao Family Foundation
—
8
Paulette Viviano Foundation for the Performing Arts
Education
9
The Arangio Family Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Nfg Foundation
—
11
Mariano Rivera Foundation
Philanthropy
12
The Bacardi Family Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Navarro 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

9 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. 9 of the 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PALMER TRINITY PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $160,893 · OtherPALMER TRINITY PRIVATE SCHOOL INCFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $159,372 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYCARROLLTON: $51,000 · OtherCARROLLTONBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION+7 more: $31,710 · Other+7 moreNAVARRO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · PhilanthropyNAVARRO FAMILY FO…+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE NAVARRO FOUNDATION: $75,000 · AnimalsTHE NAVARRO…305 Pink Pack Inc: $50,000 · HealthBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $26,500 · EducationBelmont University: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $54 · EducationVoice for Children Inc AKA Voices for Children of Florida: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$452,975Philanthropy$110,500Animals$75,000Health$50,000Education$27,554Crime & Legal$5,000

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 budgetPALMER TRINITY PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $160,893 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNAVARRO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 2y, 48% of budget305 Pink Pack Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $26,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVoice for Children Inc AKA Voices for Children of Florida: $5,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetBelmont University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION: $54 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.

  • Who funds PALMER TRINITY PRIVATE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NAVARRO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NAVARRO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 305 Pink Pack Inc ↗
  • Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Voice for Children Inc AKA Voices for Children of Florida ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
  • Who funds ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION ↗

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 Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Marcel and Susana Navarro Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marcel and Susana Navarro Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–10%
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 Marcel and Susana Navarro 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 19 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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