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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.

$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

International$298kEnvironment$41kCivil Rights$20kPhilanthropy$18kHealth$6kArts & Culture$1k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,551
Median grant
1
States reached
$15k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSOCIACION DE CUENTAPROPISTAS ORIENTAL$4,551
FREEDOM SYNERGY$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

Your US giving50% of grant dollars ($193k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 50% that went abroad ($192k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 60% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%3 TO 5 DAYS INC: $41k → 13%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATI: $3k → 13%14 Y MEDIO: $5k → 15%INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS HEART FNDTN: $500 → 17%FUNDACION FABRE: $5k → 12%FUNDACION FABRE: $5k → 16%CENTER FOR A FREE CUBA: $5k → 4%BOTSCHAFTER FUR MENSCHENRECHTE: $14k → 6%SECOND STREET GALLERY: $1k → 8%SSJ HEALTH FOUNDATIONS INC: $6k → 15%FUNDACION FABRE: $5k → 16%MOVIMIENTO SAN ISIDRO: $8k → 6%DIRECTORIO DEMOCRATICO CUBANO: $5k → 15%FUNDACION FABRE: $5k → 16%MOVIMIENTO SAN ISIDRO: $6k → 6%DIRECTORIO DEMOCRATICO CUBANO: $12k → 15%FUNDACION PARA LA DEMOCRIA: $3k → 15%CUBA DECIDE: $2k → 15%FUNDACION PARA LA DEMOCRACIA PANAMERICANA: $500 → 15%FUNDACION PARA LA DEMOCRACIA: $31k → 15%FUNDACION PARA LA DEMOCRACIA: $10k → 15%CUBAN HUMAN RIGHTS: $3k → 15%CUBAN HUMAN RIGHTS: $3k → 15%FUNDACION PARA LA DEMOCRACIA: $600 → 15%THE MIAMI FOUNDATION: $18k → 15%FREEDOM SYNERGY: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Beyond the US50% of all-years giving ($192k)

4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Cuba$76k · 4 grants
United Kingdom$50k · 1 grant
Czechia$46k · 3 grants
Spain$20k · 4 grants

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$202k · 7 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$202k
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-18%
+1%

Still filing today

14%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AP
    ACO PROJECT
    3× · 2021–2023 · $71k
  • FP
    FUNDACION PARA LA DEMOCRACIA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $41k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2019–2020 · $33k

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GLOBAL FUND FOR FORGOTTEN PEOPLE
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • 3T
    3 To 5 Days Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $41k
  • FF
    FIU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Free Society Project Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Plantados Until Freedom and Democracy in Cuba Inc
3
Agora Cuba Inc

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.

International
4
Cubanet News Inc

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…

Education
5
Libertatis

Promote education to citizens

6
Mar Por Cuba Inc

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.

International
7
Cuban American National Foundation Inc

To empower Cuban civil society to build a durable democracy in Cuba that is free of human rights violations.

Arts & Culture
8
Inventario

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Humanist Political Culture and Democracy Corp

Strengthening the humanistic political culture with the purpose of promoting democracy and defense of fundamental human rights, based on values of solidarity

International
10
Global Foundation for Democracy & Development Inc

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…

Public Benefit
11
GIVE2CUBA

Improve lives in Cuba

Philanthropy
12
Cuba Independiente Inc

Promote democracy and Human Rights

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for a Free Cuba and the most unlike its peers is 3 to 5 Days Inc. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACO PROJECT — $71,162 · OtherACO PROJECTTHE GLOBAL FUND FOR FORGOTTEN PEOPLE — $50,000 · OtherTHE GLOBAL FUND FOR FORGOTTEN PEOPLEFUNDACION PARA LA DEMOCRACIA — $41,100 · OtherFUNDACION PARA LA DEMOCRACIAIndividual grant recipient — $32,817 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFUNDACION FABRE — $20,050 · OtherFUNDACION FABREFIU FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $13,866 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $13,521 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $13,050 · Other+7 more — $22,551 · Other+7 more3 To 5 Days Inc — $41,035 · International3 To 5 Days IncDirectorio Democratico Cubano Inc — $17,400 · InternationalDirectorio Democra…Center for a Free Cuba — $5,275 · InternationalCenter for a Free …+1 more — $500 · InternationalTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 · PhilanthropyADOM HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $6,200 · HealthFREEDOM SYNERGY CORPORATION — $2,500 · EducationSECOND STREET GALLERY INC — $1,100 · Arts & Culture
Other$293,117International$64,210Philanthropy$17,500Health$6,200Education$2,500Arts & Culture$1,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDirectorio Democratico Cubano Inc — $17,400 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetADOM HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $6,200 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCenter for a Free Cuba — $5,275 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFREEDOM SYNERGY CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSECOND STREET GALLERY INC — $1,100 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFundacion Para La Democracia Panamerican Corp — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Bacardi Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Bacardi Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Bacardi Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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