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The Ron and Lisa Fenech Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Ron and Lisa Fenech 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.

$316k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.7MYouth Development$1.4MHealth$738kEducation$734kHousing & Shelter$200kPhilanthropy$168kScience & Tech$160kEnvironment$143kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST MI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
CHILD AND PARENT SERVICES (CAPS)$35,000
ETHOS INNOVATION CENTER$34,105
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE ABBEY$25,000
PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$22,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (ELKHART)$20,000
BRILLIANT DETROIT$10,000
GARGIULO EDUCATION CENTER$10,000
AWAKE & ALIVE$10,000
CENTER POINT COMMUNITY CHURCH$10,000
HOSPICE FOUNDATION - ELKHART$10,000
CULTIVATE FOOD RESCUE$6,250
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$6,250
ALICE'S KIDS$5,000
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 (FY17–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%Harbor Springs Chamber Foundation: $1k → 11%Harbor Springs Chamber Foundation: $500 → 11%YOUTH HAVEN: $5k → 10%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
MI
NY
IN
CA
VA
DC
GA
TX
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 43 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
32

Total granted

$4.2M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+40%

Still filing today

53%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • BH
    Beacon Health Foundation Inc
    4× · 2017–2024 · $650k · revenue +439%
  • CA
    CHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $367k · revenue +32%
  • NN
    NORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +224%

Funded once

  • LY
    Lifeline Youth Ministries
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • TR
    THE RVDA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +100% · 57% of their budget
  • HE
    HORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $43k · revenue +162%
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
National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports
2
Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc

It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…

Environment
3
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
4
Environmental Working Group

The environmental working group (ewg) is committed to empowering people to live healthier lives in healthier environments. we are a nonprofit research and advocacy organization with a community made up of millions of consumers who stand-up…

Environment
5
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
6
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
7
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation

This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…

Environment
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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9
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
10
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
11
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
12
Indiana Wish Inc

The mission of indiana wish is to grant wishes to indiana children ages 3 -18 diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Richard Baidas Memorial Scholarship Fund. 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

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 85 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
41/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lifeline Youth Ministries: $1,000,000 · OtherLifeline Youth MinistriesLIFELINE: $1,000,000 · OtherLIFELINEBOYS & GIRLS CLUB (GOSHEN): $205,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB (GOSHEN)BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB - ELKHART: $160,800 · OtherCHILD AND PARENT SERVICES (CAPS): $155,000 · OtherNORTHWEST MI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · Other+52 more: $872,925 · Other+52 moreBeacon Health Foundation Inc: $650,000 · HealthBeacon Health …RYANS PLACE INC: $48,000 · HealthRYANS PLACE IN…+5 more: $59,000 · Health+5 moreTHE RVDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationTHE RVDA EDU…NORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC: $204,800 · EducationNORTH NAPLES…EL EDUCATION INC: $164,950 · EducationEL EDUCATION…HORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $42,500 · EducationHORIZON EDUC…CHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC: $366,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $7,000 · Crime & LegalPETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $101,500 · PhilanthropySTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $38,500 · PhilanthropyNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMIKE THOMPSON CHARITIES: $10,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $129,750 · Employment+1 more: $1,000 · EmploymentLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $61,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $25,500 · EnvironmentTIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL: $7,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · Environment
Other$3,693,725Health$757,000Education$662,250Crime & Legal$373,500Philanthropy$185,000Employment$130,750Environment$94,500

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 budgetBeacon Health Foundation Inc: $650,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC: $366,500 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTHE RVDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetNORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC: $204,800 over 8y, 16% of budgetEL EDUCATION INC: $164,950 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST MI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $150,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $129,750 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $101,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetETHOS INC: $94,105 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $61,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRYANS PLACE INC: $48,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $45,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $42,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $38,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $25,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF INDIANA-MICHIANA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $24,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetYWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $22,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLOVEWAY INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC: $20,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGABRIELS LIGHT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSOUTH BEND ELKHART REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBLUE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAWAKE AND ALIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMIKE THOMPSON CHARITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT APIS M INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlices Kids Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPOTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBashor Home of The United Methodist Church Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO DOGS LEFT BEHIND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBABY2BABY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELKHART COUNTY SAMARITAN CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGabriellas Smile Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRICHARD BAIDAS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHARBOR SPRINGS CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds Beacon Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RVDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EL EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST MI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC ↗
  • Who funds PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ETHOS INC ↗
  • Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds RYANS PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds STARABILITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF INDIANA-MICHIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds YWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds LOVEWAY INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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.

Welter Foundation IncBill Deputy FoundationCommunity Foundation …Rex and Alice A Marti…1st Source Bank Found…University of Notre D…Irions Foundation IncCrossroads United Way…Everwise Foundation I…Community Foundation …Lilly Endowment IncCollier Community Fou…
Welter Foundation IncIN30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Welter Foundation Inc · Bill Deputy Foundation · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · Rex and Alice A Martin Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Irions Foundation Inc · Crossroads United Way Inc · Everwise Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Collier Community 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 Ron and Lisa Fenech Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ron and Lisa Fenech Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • North Naples Education Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report 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.

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 85 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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