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The Favrot Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $764k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART | $104,400 |
| CMC FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS AKA DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FOREVER BALBOA PARK | $100,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS | $100,000 |
| GLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| LEVANTA MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $50,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| IMIDIDO PROJECT FBO HEART AND SOLE AFRICA | $50,000 |
| THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $50,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON | $40,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $40,000 |
| THE UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO | $25,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–19, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 35% of The Favrot Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 70% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART9× · 2017–2025 · $395k · revenue +58%
- HCHill Country Alliance9× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +256%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO8× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- JAJOHANNA A FAVROT FUNDone grant, 2024 · $2.0M · revenue -80% · 89% of their budget
- FBFOREVER BALBOA PARKone grant, 2023 · $100k
- HFHEARTGIFT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to: expand knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american tine art that has been created since world war ii; to operate a museum; to collect and display latin american…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Museum of Man Dba Museum of Us and the most unlike its peers is Johanna a Favrot Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 75 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 JOHANNA A FAVROT FUND ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hill Country Alliance ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FOREVER BALBOA PARK ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MILL ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN DBA MUSEUM OF US ↗
- Who funds MANOS DE CRISTO INC ↗
- Who funds LONGNECK MANOR CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds LEVANTA MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Parker Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation · Heller Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Favrot Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
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.
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