· Private foundation
James B Tafel 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUREBOUND INC | $55,000 |
| SPARK VENTURES | $35,000 |
| GLOBAL COMMUNITIES | $30,000 |
| BETHESDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMERSON MUSIC MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| BURNHAM MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| RANCHO SANTA FE WOMEN'S FUND | $5,000 |
| BOYNTON BEACH FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| MISSION TO THE WORLD | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES | $3,000 |
| IMPACT 100 PALM BEACH COUNTY | $2,150 |
| MOODY RADIO SOUTH FLORIDA | $2,000 |
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, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 5 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- BHBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $402k · revenue +186%
- CCUREBOUND9× · 2017–2025 · $193k · revenue +49%
- SVSpark Ventures9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- CKCOOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $16k · revenue 0%
- SOSpecial Operations Fundone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +23%
- TTGFone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pepper Family Foundation. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 92 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 Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds Spark Ventures ↗
- Who funds AMERSON MUSIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds National Tennis Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE OUTREACH MISSION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CARY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds IMPACT 100 PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Special Operations Fund ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds CRC RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lantern Network ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Rancho Santa Fe Womens Fund ↗
- Who funds Captain Planet Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDREADERORG ↗
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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation
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 James B Tafel 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.
- Global Communities — 44% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Wayside House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Caridad Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs 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.