· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $764k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART | $104,400 |
| FOREVER BALBOA PARK | $100,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS | $100,000 |
| CMC FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS AKA DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| LEVANTA MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $50,000 |
| THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $50,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| IMIDIDO PROJECT FBO HEART AND SOLE AFRICA | $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 |
| OLD GLOBE THEATRE | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 35% of The Favrot Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 70%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- CFCMC FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS AKA DELL CHILDRENS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
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,…
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 75 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 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 LEVANTA MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Favrot Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Favrot Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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