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Janower Family Private Foundation
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
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 $10k30 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $166k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DES MOINES UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| SWEET DREAM MAKERS | $22,500 |
| GIGIS PLAYHOUSE | $22,280 |
| BOCA WEST CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| FLORENCE FULLER CENTER | $15,000 |
| WOODFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| JAFCO | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM | $10,000 |
| PLACE OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| VINER SCHOLAR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SOS CHILDRENS VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| CARSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE WICK THEATER | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SEVEN LOCKS JEWISH COMMUNITY | $3,600 |
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, $791k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Janower Family Private Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 20 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- BWBOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION FKA BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $746k · revenue +69%
- SDSweet Dream Makers Inc4× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +204%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +392%
Funded once
- EAEDA AND CLIFF VINER COMMUNITY SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -57%
- WBWAYNE BARTON STUDY CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +574%
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE CHARITY INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -67%
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.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
The mission of the florida atlantic university foundation inc. is to encourage, promote, and provide funds and other resources for the benefit of florida atlantic university (a part of the florida state university system) in furtherance of…
To strengthen jewish life and identity in our community, provide for jewish people in need and promote support for israel.
The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
To encourage, solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes, all for the advancement of florida international university and its objectives (see schedule o for…
To support the greater miami jewish federation and other irc code section 501(c)(3) organizations. philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking programs.
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wayne Barton Study Center Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 108 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 BOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION FKA BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PAPANICOLAOU CORPS FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Sweet Dream Makers Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds The Wick Theatre & Costume Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds EDA AND CLIFF VINER COMMUNITY SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYNE BARTON STUDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES FLORIDAINC ↗
- Who funds BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
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: Boca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca West Community Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · EM Lynn Foundation · Beverly & Joel Altman Family Foundation Inc · Pechter Family Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Sandelman Foundation · Bay Branch Foundation · Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · United Way Miami Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc
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 Janower Family Private 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.
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Easter Seals South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University 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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