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The Fabela Family Foundation at a glance

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The Fabela Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$93k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$97kReligion$50kEducation$39kCrime & Legal$29kYouth Development$12kCommunity Improvement$6kArts & Culture$5kInternational$500
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $86k
$17,559
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARADISE FOUNDATION$48,004
MAYO CLINIC$20,000
TOUGH KIDS BOOT CAMP$17,559
WAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC$5,000
GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILI$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILI: $2k → 10%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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
VA
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 3 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +104% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
13

Total granted

$176k
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    5× · 2017–2021 · $92k · revenue +91%
  • PF
    PARADISE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $54k
  • TK
    TOUGH KIDS BOOT CAMP INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +456%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • CL
    CHRISTIAN LIFE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • NF
    NRA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -23%
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
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
2
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
3
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
4
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
5
Pediatric Specialty Group Inc

Pediatric specialty group, inc. (d/b/a nicklaus children's pediatric specialists ("ncps")) is a physician-directed, multi-specialty pediatric group with a regional, national, and international presence in providing pediatric-centric care…

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6
Adventist Healthcare Fort Washington Medical Center Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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7
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
8
Texas Children's Global

To lead efforts that advance healthcare equity through innovative collaboration in care, education, and research globally.

Education
9
American Nurses Credentialing Center

To promote excellence in nursing and health care globally through credentialing programs.

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10
Arkansas Children's Research Institute

The vision of arkansas children's research institute is to be a leader in cutting-edge research that improves the health and well-being of children and their families. in support of this vision, arkansas children's research institute aims…

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11
Boston Children's Network Specialty Physicians Inc

BCNSP supports the following three pillars of Boston Children's Hospital's four-part mission: (1) providing care to individuals in the community, (2) improving clinical care to its patients, and (3) educating and training clinicians. In…

Health
12
World Child Cancer Usa

To improve cancer diagnosis, treatment and care for children across the developing world

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grace Place for Children and Families Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tough Kids Boot Camp 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

14 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. 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Children's Hospital Corporation: $92,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationMAYO CLINIC: $20,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $400 · HealthIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHRISTIAN LIFE SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN LIFE SCHOOLCRU: $15,000 · OtherCRUBARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC: $5,000 · OtherBARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INCSAINT AGATHA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherSAINT AGATHA FOUNDATION+3 more: $3,531 · OtherPARADISE FOUNDATION INC: $54,004 · Community ImprovementPARADISE FOUNDATIO…TOUGH KIDS BOOT CAMP INC: $29,559 · Youth DevelopmentTOUGH KIDS…NRA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalNRA FOUND…TACTICA: $3,540 · Crime & LegalTACTICAGrand Haven Christian School: $10,000 · EducationAIESEC LIFE INC: $2,500 · EducationAWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES: $5,000 · Religion
Health$117,400Other$83,531Community Improvement$54,004Youth Development$29,559Crime & Legal$28,540Education$12,500Religion$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $92,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARADISE FOUNDATION INC: $54,004 over 2y, 12% of budgetTOUGH KIDS BOOT CAMP INC: $29,559 over 3y, 17% of budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrand Haven Christian School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT AGATHA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTACTICA: $3,540 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $400 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Fabela Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fabela Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Fabela Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fabela 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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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