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Garvy Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Garvy Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$76k
Granted FY2020
15
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$249kAnimals$119kRecreation & Sports$102kHuman Services$34kHealth$20kReligion$17kArts & Culture$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2020 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k13 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE$35,000
CARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
ST ANN PLACE$5,000
FAMILY CHURCH$5,000
PALM BEACH ISLAND HOSPICE$2,596
SOCIETY OF THE LITTLE FLOWER$2,500
DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH-DSA$2,500
PALM BEACH ISLAND HOSPICE$2,500
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$2,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH$2,000
ROSARIAN ACADEMY$2,000
BUCCAN PROVISIONS$1,000
YMCA OF THE PALM BEACHES$1,000
HANLEY FOUNDATION$1,000
SOCIETY OF THE LITTLE FLOWER$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH: $2k → 11%TRIANGLE CLUB: $5k → 11%HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $6k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$377k · 5 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$377k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+54%

Still filing today

20%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsHealthCrime & LegalEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $227k
  • PA
    Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $119k · revenue +39%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF THE LITTLE FLOWER
    2× · 2019–2020 · $14k

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • SJ
    SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • TP
    The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +496%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Palm Healthcare Foundation Inc

Palm Health Foundation invests in bold, community-led solutions that improve health and well-being in Palm Beach County. (Continued on Schedule O)Established in 2001 from the sale of Good Samaritan and St. Mary's hospitals, the Foundation…

Health
2
The Hanley Foundation Co Sue Hanley
Philanthropy
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
4
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
5
Temple University Hospital Inc

See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…

Health
6
University of Miami
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7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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,…

Health
8
The Miriam Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
9
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
10
James P McCarron Jr Medical Foundation Inc
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11
Pmh Legacy
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12
The Bpb and Hbb Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Foundation of Palm Beach County; the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $227,475 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDASOCIETY OF THE LITTLE FLOWER: $13,500 · Other+14 more: $72,616 · Other+14 morePeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $119,200 · AnimalsPeggy Adams Animal Resc…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $102,306 · EducationUniversity of Notre …+1 more: $2,500 · EducationHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $6,100 · Human ServicesTRIANGLE CLUB INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Crime & LegalBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,450 · HealthTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $2,000 · PhilanthropyHANLEY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBUCCAN PROVISIONS NON-PROFIT CORP: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$313,591Animals$119,200Education$104,806Human Services$14,100Crime & Legal$10,000Health$5,450Philanthropy$3,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $119,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $102,306 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $6,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCCAN PROVISIONS NON-PROFIT CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHANLEY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Thomas C Quick Ch…The Mary Alice Fortin…Quantum Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Thomas C Quick Charitable Trust U/A December 29 1986FL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Thomas C Quick Charitable Trust U/A December 29 1986 · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Quantum Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Garvy Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garvy Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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