· Private foundation
The Fernandez Family Foundation Inc
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
- Under $10k23 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $234k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| HEIGHTS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $20,000 |
| FGCU | $15,000 |
| CRISTO EL REY SAN JOSE JESUIT HIGH | $12,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $11,600 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LEE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| PICKENS HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| EXPERIENCE CAMPS | $10,000 |
| WESTGATE CHURCH | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 11 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $337k · revenue +56%
SMILE TRAIN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +19%- HFHabitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CSCHARLES SCHWAB FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +29%
- LBLEE BUILDERS CAREone grant, 2024 · $10k
- GLGLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.
To foster philanthropy across charlotte county to enhance our community for generations.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Charles Schwab Foundation. 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 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 110 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds CHARLES SCHWAB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Housing and Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Desire Street Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF PICKENS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRIMARY SCHOOL LAB ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds 100 WOMEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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: Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation · The George and Mary Jo Sanders Foun Inc · Grampy's Charities James Jonatha William Castle Ttees · The Red Sox Foundation Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation
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 Fernandez Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Love a Child Inc — 0% 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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