· Private foundation
Cavan 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES | $36,000 |
| ANGELWOOD | $35,000 |
| HEALING BRIDGE CLINIC | $25,000 |
| CLOTHES CLOSET | $20,000 |
| DOWNTOWN ECUMENICAL SERVICES COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| SOUTHEAST GWINNET COUNTY CO-OP | $18,000 |
| BEACHES EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF JACKSONVILLE | $14,000 |
| ARLINGTON COMMUNITY SERVICES | $6,000 |
| NORTH GWINNETT CO-OP | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $753k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- MRMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $459k · revenue +33%
- AIANGELWOOD INC9× · 2017–2025 · $315k · revenue +12%
- PSPRESBYTERIAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $313k · revenue +168%
Funded once
- SGSOUTHEAST GWINNET COUNTY CO-OPone grant, 2025 · $18k
- NGNORTH GWINNETT COOPERATIVE INCone grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue +14%
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.
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
It is the mission of Fresh Start Ministry to be the hands and feet of God by serving others in need in Monroe County. we have a mens and womans shelter and a program to help people get back on there feet
To create housing solutions, provide compassionate homeless day services, and work alongside partners to inspire community action.
New Covenant Safe Haven is a Christian-based organization committed to uplifting and supporting individuals and families living in poverty within our community. Our primary mission is to provide essential services such as temporary shelter…
Christian Community Ministries is a financial crisis ministry helping those who fall within our definition of crisis. Except for one paid administrator, we are a totally volunteer organization. We operate as an extension of the servant…
To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.
Provide resource and referrals
Providing hope for the homeless and hurting through housing, case management, support services and strategic alliances.
Our mission is to help those who are struggling with homelessness, by providing resources to help rebuild their lives.
We are a church, food bank, outreach that ministers the love of Jesus to our city and the surrounding cities by preaching and teaching the word of God every Sunday. We also minister to anyone with a food need weekly through our food bank.…
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
Street Ministries 25:40 is a ministry that sees people as Christ sees them, as we reach out to minister to their needs, while loving them unconditionally. We seek to meet the needs of the community in various ways including providing food,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Jacksonvilleinc and the most unlike its peers is Melanoma Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGELWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING BRIDGE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF JACKSONVILLEINC ↗
- Who funds Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Life Renewal Inc ↗
- Who funds PASTORAL COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry I Inc ↗
- Who funds Arlington Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH GWINNETT COOPERATIVE 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust · The Thomas M and Irene Kirbo Charitable Foundation · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Cavan Family Foundation 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.
- Presbyterian Social Ministries Inc — 8% of income from government
- Family Promise of Jacksonvilleinc — 0% of income from government
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.