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The Michael and Milagros Contreras 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.

$52k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

International$230kReligion$62kEducation$10kHealth$8kHuman Services$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$500Environment$350
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$1,250
Median grant
6
States reached
$64k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MINDO FUTURES INC$20,000
BERRY COLLEGE$7,500
ST HUGH CATHOLIC CHURCH$6,200
CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI$5,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$3,500
EMAUS IN CUBA FOUNDATION$1,250
MORNINGSTAR RENEWAL CENTER$1,000
FUNDA ROSA$1,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$500
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS - MIAMI COUNCIL #1726$209
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$179
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$100
SHARING FOR KIDS$100
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 (FY21–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE CORPORATION: $6k → 20%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%HANDS OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $50 → 13%CYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE CORPORATION: $1k → 20%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
NY
OH
NJ
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$309k · 10 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$309k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+74%

Still filing today

30%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MF
    MINDO FUTURES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $227k · revenue +47%
  • SH
    ST HUGH CATHOLIC CHURCH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $28k
  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI
    5× · 2021–2025 · $26k

Funded once

  • SM
    SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +74%
  • DC
    DISCALCED CARMELITE NUNS
    one grant, 2024 · $150
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
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
4
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
5
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
8
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
9
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
10
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
11
Habib Alrahman Charity Foundation

The mission of habib alrahman charity foundation (hacf) is to establish a kideny center in sudan called hacf kidney center, which will help patients with kidney (renal)problems in sudan. kidney problems are very common in sudan and the…

Health
12
Seeds of Change Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Grove for Ghana 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

10 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. 10 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINDO FUTURES INC: $226,509 · OtherMINDO FUTURES INCST HUGH CATHOLIC CHURCH: $27,525 · OtherST HUGH CATHOLIC CHURCHARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI: $26,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI+12 more: $19,669 · Other+12 moreBERRY COLLEGE INC: $9,500 · EducationCYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE CORPORATION: $7,057 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 · Human Services+1 more: $50 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,050 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $179 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $100 · HealthGROVE FOR GHANA INC: $350 · EnvironmentSHARING FOR KIDS INC: $100 · Philanthropy
Other$299,703Education$9,500Human Services$7,607Health$1,329Environment$350Philanthropy$100

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 budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE CORPORATION: $7,057 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROVE FOR GHANA INC: $350 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $179 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHands of Hope Foundation: $50 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.

  • Who funds MINDO FUTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds GROVE FOR GHANA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHARING FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Hands of Hope Foundation ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Michael and Milagros Contreras Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael and Milagros Contreras Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Michael and Milagros Contreras 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 24 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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