· Private foundation
Donna and Steven Aptekar 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOCA REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY | $10,000 |
| BOCA RIO FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| SWEET DREAM MAKERS | $5,000 |
| BOCA HELPING HANDS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS | $1,101 |
| GEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,040 |
| AMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL FOUNDATION | $1,030 |
| MITCHELL COLLEGE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BRBOCA RIO FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +155%
- SDSweet Dream Makers Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +113%
- BRBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc3× · 2019–2021 · $21k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- GFGOOSE FLIGHTS INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +10%
- ABAF BEST SECURITIES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
- RFRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +27%
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.
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.
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The primary mission is to accelerate research and foster collaboration to prevent and cure brca cancers. we invest in the most promising work of top scientific investigators while creating a forum for successful partnerships across…
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
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To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sweet Dream Makers Inc ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds TIKVA CORP ↗
- Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GOOSE FLIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds AF BEST SECURITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
- Who funds Helping Israel Fund ↗
- Who funds DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION INC DBA FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Martin B Greenberg Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donna and Steven Aptekar Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donna and Steven Aptekar Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mitchell College: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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