· Private foundation
The Joan and Joseph Fernandez 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIRAM COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION (CAF) | $14,787 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $1,500 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR THE CARE OF INDIGENT ANIMALS (FCIA) | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SAVINGS HORSES INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CCCAF CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2023 · $156k
- CACHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $56k
- VOVILLAGE OZ INC3× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue -72% · 69% of their budget
Funded once
- HCHIRAM COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $200k
- JIJUST IN TIME YOUTH SPONSORSHIPone grant, 2018 · $15k
- FHFRIESIAN HORSE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
SFSFF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the presentation and preservation of silent cinema, and the education of the public about silent film as an art form and as a culturally valuable historical record.
The friends of santa ana zoo is a nonprofit corporation organized to develop financial support, growth, and community awareness for the santa ana zoo.
The santa barbara zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research, recreation and conservation.
Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
WildCare supports people everywhere to live well with wildlife, through a full cycle of programs including wildlife advocacy and information resources, nature education programs, and medical aid for wild animals in need. Each year we treat…
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
Friends of the urban forest connects people with nature and each other by planting and caring for san francisco's trees and gardens.
The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…
The first tee san francisco is a unique youth development programthat uses the sport of golf to teach students life skills. valuesinherent to the game of golf: including integrity, honesty,self-control and self-reliance are also explored…
The mission of fresh approach is to create long-term change in local food systems by connecting california communities with healthy food from california farmers and expanding knowledge about food and nutrition.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tides Center and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the Care of Indigent Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 28 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 VILLAGE OZ INC ↗
- Who funds HIRAM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTURY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAVING HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIONS JAZZ CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds FRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CARE OF INDIGENT ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA SHOWGROUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Joan and Joseph Fernandez 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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