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Medina Isabel Tuw

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.

$146k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$719kScience & Tech$75kHealth$53kInternational$27kCommunity Improvement$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
$8,161
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATION OF FAITH$20,419
ST AGNES PARISH$20,419
FABRICA IGREJA PAROQUIAL SANTA CRUZ$20,419
ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF SAN DIEGO$20,419
COMBONI MISSIONARIES OF$16,354
SEMINARIO EPISCOPAL DE ANGRA$8,161
FARBRICA DA IGREJA PAROQUIAL DE SANTA$8,161
MERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$8,161
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$4,081
SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY$4,081
POOR SISTERS OF NAZARETH$4,081
FRANCISCAN FATHERS OF CALIFORNIA$4,081
CARMELITE MONASTERY$4,081
Individual grant recipient$2,856
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.

US giving: 73% of grant dollars ($685k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 27% that went abroad ($253k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY: $7k → 10%POOR SISTERS OF NAZARETH: $7k → 11%SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATION OF FAITH: $35k → 17%COMBONI MISSIONARIES OF: $28k → 16%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $7k → 14%SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY: $6k → 10%POOR SISTERS OF NAZARETH: $6k → 11%THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION: $27k → 17%COMBONI MISSIONARIES OF: $22k → 16%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $6k → 14%SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY: $6k → 10%POOR SISTERS OF NAZARETH: $6k → 11%THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION: $25k → 17%COMBONI MISSIONARIES OF: $21k → 16%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $6k → 14%SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY: $5k → 10%POOR SISTERS OF NAZARETH: $5k → 11%THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION: $23k → 17%COMBONI MISSIONARIES OF: $18k → 16%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $5k → 14%SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY: $4k → 10%POOR SISTERS OF NAZARETH: $4k → 11%SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATION OF FAITH: $20k → 17%COMBONI MISSIONARIES OF: $16k → 16%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $4k → 14%CARMELITE MONASTERY: $7k → 11%CARMELITE MONASTERY: $6k → 11%CARMELITE MONASTERY: $6k → 11%CARMELITE MONASTERY: $5k → 11%CARMELITE MONASTERY: $4k → 11%FRANCISCAN FATHERS OF CALIFORNIA: $7k → 11%FRANCISCAN FATHERS OF CALIFORNIA: $4k → 11%ST AGNES PARISH: $35k → 11%ST AGNES PARISH: $27k → 11%ST AGNES PARISH: $26k → 11%ST AGNES PARISH: $23k → 11%ST AGNES PARISH: $20k → 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.

Beyond the US: 27% of all-years giving ($253k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Portugal$253k · 20 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
$895k · 17 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$895k
$23k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

  • SA
    ST AGNES PARISH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $131k
  • RC
    ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF SAN DIEGO
    5× · 2020–2024 · $131k
  • ID
    IGREIJA DE SANTA CRUZ
    4× · 2020–2023 · $109k

Funded once

  • FD
    FRBRICA DA IGREJA PAROQUIAL DE SANTA
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $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

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 20 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)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST AGNES PARISH: $130,519 · OtherST AGNES PARISHROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF SAN DIEGO: $130,519 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF SAN DIEGOIGREIJA DE SANTA CRUZ: $109,024 · OtherIGREIJA DE SANTA CRUZCOMBONI MISSIONARIES OF: $104,823 · OtherCOMBONI MISSIONARIES OFTHE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION: $75,191 · OtherTHE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATIONSOCIETY FOR PROPAGATION OF FAITH: $54,995 · OtherSOCIETY FOR PROPAGATION OF FAITHMercy Hospital Foundation San Diego: $53,047 · OtherMercy Hospital Foundation San DiegoSEMINARIO EPISCOPAL DE ANGRA: $43,645 · Other+12 more: $236,983 · Other+12 more
Other$938,746

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 20 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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