· Private foundation
The Bacardi Family 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSOCIACION DE CUENTAPROPISTAS ORIENTAL | $4,551 |
| FREEDOM SYNERGY | $2,500 |
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: 50% of grant dollars ($193k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 50% that went abroad ($192k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 60% 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
Beyond the US: 50% of all-years giving ($192k)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- APACO PROJECT3× · 2021–2023 · $71k
- FPFUNDACION PARA LA DEMOCRACIA3× · 2017–2019 · $41k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2019–2020 · $33k
Funded once
- TGTHE GLOBAL FUND FOR FORGOTTEN PEOPLEone grant, 2022 · $50k
- 3T3 To 5 Days Incone grant, 2018 · $41k
- FFFIU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
To provide free and uncensored access to communication and unbiased news for all Cubans, with channels that are accessible and legal in both the US and Cuba.
Founded in 1994, Cubanet News is a nonprofit and non-partisan organization that seeks the circulaton of unfettered information and the development of Cuba's independent journalism. To achieve its mission, Cubanet's main tools are the…
Promote education to citizens
Organization dedicated to the advocacy of human rights. to the promotion of democratic values and to raise the awareness of cuba's reality under totalitarianism.
To empower Cuban civil society to build a durable democracy in Cuba that is free of human rights violations.
Inventario is an organization dedicated to facilitating access to open data and public information about cuba. we are an independent, non-profit media company that combines accurate and investigative journalism techniques, open culture and…
Strengthening the humanistic political culture with the purpose of promoting democracy and defense of fundamental human rights, based on values of solidarity
The mission of global foundation for democracy & development, inc. (gfdd) is to develop alliances with international partners to formulate and implement initiatives promoting sustainable socio-economic development and the strengthening of…
Improve lives in Cuba
Promote democracy and Human Rights
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 24 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 3 To 5 Days Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Directorio Democratico Cubano Inc ↗
- Who funds ADOM HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for a Free Cuba ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SYNERGY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND STREET GALLERY INC ↗
- Who funds Fundacion Para La Democracia Panamerican Corp ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bacardi Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bacardi Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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