· Private foundation
Edward T Bedford Foundation Bessemer Trust Company of Florida
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $559k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $187k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC | $62,000 |
| THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC | $50,000 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC | $35,000 |
| URBAN YOUTH IMPACT INC | $30,000 |
| ASPHALT GREEN | $30,000 |
| THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC | $30,000 |
| GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES | $30,000 |
| GATOR JUNIOR GOLF ASSOC | $25,000 |
| EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA | $25,000 |
| CARIDAD CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $684k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% 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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- GCGuadalupe Center Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +27%
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC3× · 2020–2024 · $155k · revenue +43%
- AGASPHALT GREEN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- CFCHAMPIONS FOR LEARNINGone grant, 2022 · $50k
- GAGainesville Area Community Tennis Associationone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +15%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +26%
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 boys & girls club of palm beach county is to inspire and assist all young people, especially those who need them most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Its mission is to impact the lives of young people around the world by creating affordable and accessible golf facilities to primarily serve those who have not previously had exposure to the game and its positive values. our goal is to…
To impact the lives of young people by providing learning facilities and educational programs that promote development and life enhancing values (honesty, sportmanship, courtesey, respect, confidence, responsibility, perseverance, judment)…
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
Our mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy through classroom programs and simulations that focus on financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship. Since 1981, Junior Achievement of the Palm…
Youth Development Programs Through the Game of Golf
The organizations purpose is to serve individuals who express an interest in learning tennis through a variety of development programs including after school tennis programs, instructional programs and excellence development programs.a…
To strenghten and instill pride in family and community through the development of programs and institutions that cultivate self-development, teach self-disipline, build confidence and promote cutural awareness.
To manage, improve and evaluate an integrated and quality seamless service delivery system for all publicly-funded early care and education programs serving children from birth to five years of age and school-age siblings to serve families…
Provide services and programs for women, teens, children, and families of miami-dade county in focusing our mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
To provide services and programs for children.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. to provide a world-class club experience that assures success is within reach of every young person…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gold Coast Junior Golf Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth Tennis Foundation of Florida Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 65 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ASPHALT GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Youth Impact Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
- Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
- Who funds Caridad Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLADES INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Life Skills FORE Pasadena YouthInc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST JR GOLF INC ↗
- Who funds HORSES N HEROES OF MARION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GOLD COAST JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
- Who funds Bound For College Inc ↗
- Who funds Junior Golf Assoc of Broward County Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds GATOR JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S GOLF 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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Children's Healthcare Charity Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · The Mirasol Foundation Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Town of Palm Beach United Way 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 Edward T Bedford Foundation Bessemer Trust Company of Florida 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.
- Grandmas Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
- The Armory Art Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lighthouse Artcenter Inc — 0% of income from government
- Children's Golf Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Hope Charities Inc — 0% of income from government
- Caridad Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Children's Dream Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center 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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