· Private foundation
Higgs Family 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST | $11,500 |
| UNITED AGAINST POVERTY | $11,500 |
| GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER | $10,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER HABITAT OF HUMANITY | $8,000 |
| THE LEARNING ALLIANCE | $8,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS | $7,105 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART | $7,000 |
| CLEVLAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATRE | $6,000 |
| JOHNS ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE | $5,300 |
| JOHNS ISLAND FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF IRC | $5,000 |
| ENVIRONMNENTAL LEARNING CENTER | $4,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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; $3k 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
- UAUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $62k · revenue +26%
- GYGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $61k · revenue +23%
- VBVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +718%
Funded once
- IRIndian River County Habitat for Humanity Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue +138%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SASALVATION ARMY OF IRCone grant, 2021 · $4k
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 support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
The foundation acts as a supporting organization for isles, inc. as described in section 509 (a)(3) of the internal revenue code. the foundation manages the investment activites of isles, inc.
To identify solutions that will protect and enhance the lives of indian river county children, individuals, families, and seniors.
To preserve the indian river lakes region for its natural, recreational, and scenic values.
To supplement educational programs in indian river county.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
The mission of the international school of indiana is to provide our students with a world-class education that prepares them to be responsible citizens and effective leaders in a rapidly globalizing and interdependent world.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
To preserve and steward aquidneck island's open spaces for the lasting benefit of the community while connecting people with the land that defines the island's natural character.
To be a catalyst in building and nuturing riverwalk and the riverwalk district in downtown fort lauderdale, fl, as a vibrant community connected by the new river.
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
To serve its members and local associations by providing leadership programs and services to sustain a healthy real estate market in indiana. in providing these services, the association will raise the standards of the real estate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian River Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wellesley Scholarship Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Indian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY SERVICES OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGLER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENERALS REDOUBT ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELLESLEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
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: Dominick & Rose Ciampa Foundation Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The Carwill Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Minotty Family Foundation · The Ned and Emily Sherwood Family Foundation · The Rogers Family Foundation · Welsh Family Foundation Inc · Susan and Leander Jennings Foundati · The Berghorst Foundation Inc · The Toffey Family Charitable Trust · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995
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 Higgs Family 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.
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance 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.