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The Pedrero Family Foundation Adba the Pharr Foundation at a glance

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The Pedrero Family Foundation Adba the Pharr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

65% of The Pedrero Family Foundation Adba the Pharr Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.5MHealth$318kArts & Culture$200kFood & Nutrition$70kScience & Tech$50kRecreation & Sports$11k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $550k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWN UNIVERSITY$400,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$150,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$50,000
SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$50,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$50,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$50,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$50,000
MARIN ACADEMY$50,000
UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$27,500
BROWN UNIVERSITY$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MARIN ACADEMY: $50k → 8%THE HAMLIN SCHOOL: $100k → 10%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50k → 14%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $438k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $25k → 10%MARIN ACADEMY: $50k → 8%THE HAMLIN SCHOOL: $100k → 10%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50k → 14%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $400k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%THE HAMLIN SCHOOL: $100k → 10%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50k → 14%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $400k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%THE HAMLIN SCHOOL: $100k → 10%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $235k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 10%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $225k → 14%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 10%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $163k → 14%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 10%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 14%SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 10%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 14%SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 10%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 14%TOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $50k → 10%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 14%SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $28k → 10%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $133k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $67k → 10%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $28k → 14%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 66% of The Pedrero Family Foundation Adba the Pharr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Pedrero Family Foundation Adba the Pharr Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 10 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$1.9M
$11k

Still filing today

90%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • TH
    THE HAMLIN SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $400k · revenue +18%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $350k · revenue +24%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL
    6× · 2018–2024 · $303k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • LA
    LOUIS AUGUST JONAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $11k
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.

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University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
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William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
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Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
10
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
12
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco University High School; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROWN UNIVERSITY: $3,055,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $350,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $302,500 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSI…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $180,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES …MARIN ACADEMY: $100,000 · EducationMARIN ACADEMYTOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $85,000 · EducationTOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS+1 more: $25,000 · EducationTHE HAMLIN SCHOOL: $400,000 · OtherTHE HAMLIN S…STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $145,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNI…+1 more: $11,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $200,000 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $86,054 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $31,667 · HealthSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $200,000 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$3,055,000Education$1,042,500Other$556,000Health$317,721Arts & Culture$200,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $3,055,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAMLIN SCHOOL: $400,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $350,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $302,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $180,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN ACADEMY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $86,054 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $85,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $31,667 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $25,000 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.

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.

Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…The Bessemer Giving F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Pedrero Family Foundation Adba the Pharr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pedrero Family Foundation Adba the Pharr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to The Pedrero Family Foundation Adba the Pharr 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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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