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Fabretto Children’s Foundation
Nicaragua roots
Source review: 2026-10-05
Your guide to Fabretto Children’s Foundation
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Reported work and places
Food and nutrition; Education; Children and youth; Livelihoods and poverty. Reported activity: Honduras; Guatemala.
The 2025 report describes school meals delivered through partners in Guatemala and Honduras, and education, agricultural and entrepreneurship training with Honduran partners. Historical Nicaragua operations ended in 2022 and are not a current country match.
Evidence dated 2025-12-31. End of the reviewed reporting period (2025), not a claim of activity on that particular day.
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Who receives your money
- Organization roots
- Nicaragua
- Roots and operating base
- Historical community roots in Nicaragua; current legal giving recipient in the United States; 2025 reported partner programmes in Guatemala and Honduras.
- Reviewed legal entity
- Fabretto Children’s Foundation, Inc. · United States
- Named recipient
- Fabretto Children’s Foundation, Inc. · United States
- Giving route
- Official named US donor-advised-fund grant instructions
Reviewed route is a grant recommendation from an existing US donor-advised fund to Fabretto Children’s Foundation, EIN 36-3894824, as explicitly instructed by the organization. A DAF sponsor remains involved in grant approval; tax eligibility must be checked separately. Ordinary card gifts are available on the site but card settlement and the separate Spanish recipient were not reviewed.
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Country evidence and reporting periods
Country coverage is based on the sources below. Annual reports do not establish operations today. Portfolio tables without country-specific sector evidence appear under All causes only.
Honduras
The 2025 report describes Honduran partners serving school meals, training teachers, and providing agricultural and entrepreneurship training for children and youth.
Reporting period: 2025 · PDF pages 8–12 and 17: partner-delivered youth training, nutrition, education and school support in Honduras and Guatemala
Evidence stage: Reported services delivered
Nicaraguan community origins are distinguished from the current US recipient. Official history says its Nicaraguan centres and programmes were closed by government action in February 2022; current 2025 programme evidence covers Guatemala and Honduras only. Partner-reported delivery is not an independent field audit. Regional meal totals cannot be allocated precisely between countries.
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The 2025 report identifies Guatemala nutrition partners and delivered school meals. Country-specific meal totals are not separated from the combined Honduras–Guatemala results.
Reporting period: 2025 · PDF pages 8–12 and 17: partner-delivered youth training, nutrition, education and school support in Honduras and Guatemala
Evidence stage: Reported services delivered
Nicaraguan community origins are distinguished from the current US recipient. Official history says its Nicaraguan centres and programmes were closed by government action in February 2022; current 2025 programme evidence covers Guatemala and Honduras only. Partner-reported delivery is not an independent field audit. Regional meal totals cannot be allocated precisely between countries.
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Minimum public-source checks passed on 2026-10-05: named identity, official presence, recent reported activity and an authorized giving route with an identifiable recipient.
Minimum public-source checks only. Registration statements and programme results may be organization-authored. Live registry standing, bank ownership, payment settlement, use of an individual gift and field outcomes were not independently audited. No payment made. Country evidence describes its stated reporting period, not guaranteed delivery today. Nicaraguan community origins are distinguished from the current US recipient. Official history says its Nicaraguan centres and programmes were closed by government action in February 2022; current 2025 programme evidence covers Guatemala and Honduras only. Partner-reported delivery is not an independent field audit. Regional meal totals cannot be allocated precisely between countries.
Official named grant instructions identify Fabretto Children’s Foundation and EIN 36-3894824. Own 2024 Form 990 and US determination letter provide additional legal-name evidence; live standing not audited.
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Own history documents Nicaragua closure and current expansion to Honduras and Guatemala; own Form 990 identifies the US legal entity.
Source relationship: Organization-authored history and legal documents
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