· Private foundation
Frances Gilmore Scaife Private 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 $10k42 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIGHTHOUSE GUILD DEVELOPMENT | $55,000 |
| TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY INC | $35,350 |
| PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESUCE LEAGUE OF | $16,000 |
| ASPCA International | $15,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $12,750 |
| HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FDN | $9,250 |
| PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH | $6,250 |
| PALM BEACH ZOO & CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ST ANN PLACE OUTREACH CENTER | $3,000 |
| NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC | $2,000 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,850 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PALM BEACH | $1,500 |
| HOSPITAL ALBERT SCHWEITZER HAITI | $1,000 |
| THE PALM BEACH FOUNDATION INC | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- THTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $88k · revenue +139%
- TPThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +279%
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- LGLIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2017 · $29k
- UHUCLA HEALTH ARLINE & HENRY GLUCKone grant, 2018 · $10k
- TCTHE CINDERELLA WOMENS COMMITTEEone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -572%
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 zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
To educate, create awareness, promote the interest of humanity in the cause of justice & the suppression of all forms of cruelty to animals, to alleviate suffering, conserve and protect animals in their environment.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
See schedule odedicated to rescuing, protecting and providing sanctuary for elephants worldwide. our founding directors and elephant care specialist consult internationally for the wellbeing of captive elephants. currently based in brazil,…
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. 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 46 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 93 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 THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds United Way of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE CINDERELLA WOMENS COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASITA MARIA INC ↗
- Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc ↗
- Who funds St Ann Place Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wags and Walks ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND 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 Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Ratna Sabapathy Family Foundation I · Bernard Weinberg Foundation · Lee Merrick Foundation Inc · The William H Pitt Foundation Inc · Hitchcock Margaret M Fdn · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (Of R & P Heydon) · Mark E Bryant Charitable Trust
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 Frances Gilmore Scaife Private 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% 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.