Florida · Private foundation
Harcourt M & Virginia W Sylvester Foundation Inc
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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $571,428
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Harcourt M & Virginia W Sylvester Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $1.9M | 22% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $2.2M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $2.2M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $3.4M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $1.2M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $1.7M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $986k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $1.7M | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Miami | $3,840,716 | 5 | 0% |
| Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc | $2,361,358 | 9 | 0% |
| The Lord's Place Inc | $1,617,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Her 2nd Chance Inc | $515,500 | 7 | 28% |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Ambrose Catholic Church | $120,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Causewave Community Partners Inc | $116,664 | 8 | 4% |
| Florida Southern College | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| George Eastman Museum | $87,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Cancer Alliance of Help and Hope Inc | $85,000 | 7 | 4% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harcourt M & Virginia W Sylvester Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: EM Lynn Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · McNally Family Foundation Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About Harcourt M & Virginia W Sylvester Foundation Inc
- How much does Harcourt M & Virginia W Sylvester Foundation Inc give?
- Harcourt M & Virginia W Sylvester Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $1,853,071 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harcourt M & Virginia W Sylvester Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Education (26%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Harcourt M & Virginia W Sylvester Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Miami ($3.8M), Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ($2.4M), The Lord's Place Inc ($1.6M).
- Does Harcourt M & Virginia W Sylvester Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harcourt M & Virginia W Sylvester Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harcourt M & Virginia W Sylvester Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include EM Lynn Foundation, Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc, McNally Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Harcourt M & Virginia W Sylvester Foundation Inc based?
- Harcourt M & Virginia W Sylvester Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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