· Public charity
Af Best Securities Foundation Inc
To provide support to established children's charities that are predominantly medical and social in nature.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $21,500 |
| THE TIKVA CHILDREN'S HOME | $9,600 |
| BOCA HELPING HANDS | $6,500 |
| MACCABI USA | $5,000 |
| REILLY FOUNDATION INC - KRUEL CLASSIC | $5,000 |
| NEW HORIZON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISBALED | $2,500 |
| HELPING ISRAEL FUND INC | $2,000 |
| GLOBAL PARTNERS FOR DEVELOPMENT | $500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN FLORIDA | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- MUMACCABI USA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue -63%
- TCTIKVA CORP2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +51%
- BHBOCA HELPING HANDS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $13k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- TGThe Greenwich Jewish Study Group Incone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -99%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +35%
- OSOne Summit Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +92%
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.
The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Greenwich Jewish Study Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 17 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 HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
- Who funds The Greenwich Jewish Study Group Inc ↗
- Who funds TIKVA CORP ↗
- Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE REILLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds One Summit Inc ↗
- Who funds CAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR CHILDREN PROMISE FOR HAITI ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED ↗
- Who funds Helping Israel Fund ↗
- Who funds Global Partners For Development ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
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 Af Best Securities Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — 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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