· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of HARCOURT M & VIRGINIA W SYLVESTER FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $513k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $571,428 |
| HOME SAFE INC | $358,000 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL | $357,143 |
| THE LORD'S PLACE | $202,500 |
| MIAMI DOLPHINS FOUNDATION | $160,000 |
| THE IDDEAL PLACE COMMUNITY FDN | $100,000 |
| HER2NDCHANCE | $50,000 |
| CAUSEWAVE COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| PALM BEACH RAY OF HOPE FNDTN | $10,000 |
| THE AMERICAN DISABLITIES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST AMBROSE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| FAU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| FRANCIS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| SWEET DREAM MAKERS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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 +57% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 32 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- UOUniversity of Miami5× · 2018–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +87%
- BRBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +67%
- TLTHE LORD'S PLACE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +101%
Funded once
- FSFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +31%
- GEGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $88k · revenue +47%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +112%
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.
To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of doctors hospital, inc. is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…
We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The primary purpose of the h. lee moffitt cancer center and research institute hospital, inc. ("hospital") is to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.
Fiu health care network's mission is to improve and support medical education at the fiu herbert wertheim college of medicine and provide clinical support services to the larger fiu community.
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of miami cancer institute at baptist health, inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve.…
The mission of jessie trice community health system, inc. (the orgainzation) is to improve health equality for our diverse south florida community by providing and increasing access to quality comprehensive primary care services. please…
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of baptist health medical group inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist…
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of south miami hospital is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 77 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 University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HER 2ND CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds Causewave Community Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON CHAMPIONS GOLF CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREYSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Junior League of Boca Raton Inc ↗
- Who funds GIVT INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds ADORER MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSAFE 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: 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
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 Harcourt M & Virginia W Sylvester Foundation Inc 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.
- Child Rescue Coalition Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Southern College — 0% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor 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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