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Devon Creek 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 $10k20 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROTECT YOUR SISTER PROJECT | $50,000 |
| WOMEN'S EMERGENCY NETWORK | $20,000 |
| HEALTH & DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL (HDI INC) | $20,000 |
| STERLING DONOR-ADVISED FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| FLORIDA AUDUBON SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| EVERGLADES LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| FLORIDA GRAND OPERA | $5,000 |
| GULF AND CARRIBBEAN FISHERIES AND INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WLRN INC | $4,000 |
| M ENSEMBLE COMPANY | $2,000 |
| MIAMI WATERKEEPER | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES | $1,000 |
| PROTECT KEY WEST DBA LAST STAND | $1,000 |
| IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Devon Creek Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- PYPROTECT YOUR SISTER PROJECT9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +28% · 100% of their budget
- WEWOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +318%
- SFSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC8× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +37%
Funded once
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -22%- VLVermont Law Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +55%
- OFOPERATION FISTULAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +93%
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.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
To inspire and advance manatee conservation by partnering cooperatively in manatee rescue, rehabilitation, release, and monitoring efforts; improve understanding of manatee biology and health through scientific research; and promote…
The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…
Fiu health care network's mission is to improve and support medical education at the fiu herbert wertheim college of medicine and provide clinical support services to the larger fiu community.
The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)
Marine research
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Florida Public Media Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Protect Your Sister Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 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. 50 of the 80 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 PROTECT YOUR SISTER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Law School ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GRAND OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds THE IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds EVERGLADES LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GULF AND CARIBBEAN FISHERIES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FISTULA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS AND VOLUNTEERS OF REFUGES FLORIDA KEY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Healing Hands of Joy ↗
- Who funds THE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND ↗
- Who funds Frederick County Landmarks Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC ↗
- Who funds Dayspring Center Inc ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF HOPE AND FAITH ↗
- Who funds Dignity Period ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION 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 Miami Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Protect Your Sister Project · The Fine and Greenwald Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Alexander C Macintyre Charitable Trust II · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Devon Creek 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.
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- Vermont Law School — 14% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Historical Association of Southern Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- People's Health and Wellness Clinic — 2% of income from government
- Mitzvah Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Fantasy Theatre Factory Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 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.
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