· Private foundation
Elise M Besthoff Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k7 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chautauqua Institution | $49,065 |
| Norton Museum of Art | $40,000 |
| University of Florida Foundation | $20,000 |
| Opportunity Inc | $10,000 |
| The Reece School | $5,000 |
| Dreyfoos School of the Arts | $2,500 |
| The Herbert Wertheim Mood Shot Endo | $1,250 |
| Palm Health Care Foundation | $1,250 |
| Early Learning Coalition | $1,000 |
| Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies | $750 |
| Palm Beach County Food Bank | $750 |
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 (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +53% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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; $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
- CICHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION7× · 2018–2025 · $242k · revenue +99%
- TRTHE REECE SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $216k · revenue +131%
- FAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- TSTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +88%
- TATHE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -1%
- FPFaith's Place Center for Educationone grant, 2021 · $3k
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 foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Nami palm beach county provides advocacy, education, support, and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.
To support its members and create an active, caring community by providing a continuum of quality lifestyle & healthcare programs and outstanding enrichment opportunities in conjunction with the university of florida.
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
Boca raton regional hospital foundation, inc. supports the hospital's mission of providing superior, compassionate health care through the cultivation and stewardship of philanthropic gifts and raising the public awareness of the hospital…
To secure the financial future of services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities served by the arc tampa bay, inc. (continued on schedule o)this mission is accomplished through a comprehensive plan of building…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Palm Beach Habilitation Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is West Palm Beach Center for Arts & Technology 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 21 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 CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE REECE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM BEACH CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH HABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds RING LAKE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Healthy MothersHealthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds Jack The Bike Man Inc ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank 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: Quantum Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation 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 Elise M Besthoff Charitable 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.
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Jack the Bike Man 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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