How much did JOHN AND NANCY SYKES FOUNDATION INCORPORATED grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of JOHN AND NANCY SYKES FOUNDATION INCORPORATED’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

forscientific educational

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k53 grants · $91k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

HOLY SPIRIT HIGH SCHOOL$10,250
OPPORTUNITY INC$9,300
COVENANT HOUSE$5,500
THE CRAIG FOUNDATION$5,005
STAR OF THE SEA SCHOOL$4,500
CATHOLIC FAITH APPEAL$4,500
ST ELIZABETH ANN SETON CHURCH$4,000
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH$3,350
BABY BASICS$3,000
ST MONICAS PARISH$3,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$3,000
CATHOLIC STRONG DIOCESE OF CAMDEN$2,900
TARA MILLER MELANOMA FOUNDATION$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$2,500
JONATHAN'S LANDING CARES$2,044

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$578k · 60 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$578k

$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%

+46%

Still filing today

25%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

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VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
6× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +31%
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TARA MILLER MELANOMA FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +41%
FS
FRANCISCAN SISTERS OF THE POOR
5× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +166%

Funded once

4B
49TH BLOCK SOCIETY AC THE ATLANTIC CITY ARTS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $3k
CC
COLLIER COMM FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $3k
FT
Forget the Sea School
one grant, 2017 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

League of Women Voters of New Jersey

A nonpartisan organization empowering voters and defending democracy.

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Jersey Strong Foundation

Philanthropy

Atlantic General Hospital

To create a coordinated care delivery system that will provide access to quality care, personalized service, and education to improve individual and community health. we accomplish our mission through our set of values, which are honored…

Health

Manatee County Girls Club

To support manatee county girls club, inc.

Youth Development

Atlantic Golf Club Inc

Atlantic golf club is a social club the embodies traditional values, a select but diverse membership and was formed for the enjoyment of a superb golfing experience.

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Gilda's Club South Jersey Inc

To provide a free, comprehensive program of psychosocial support to adults, teens and children impacted by cancer.

Human Services

Florida Breast Cancer Coalition Research

To save the lives of those impacted by breast cancer by supporting scientific research, community education, public policy through advocacy, and community-based organizations.

Health

Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc

To secure the financial resources required to sustain clinical excellence and quality of care at Jupiter Medical Center, Inc. & its affiliates.

Philanthropy

Bancroft a New Jersey Non Profit

Programs and services for individuals with a variety of challenging diagnoses.

Human Services

Flagler Health Care Foundation Inc

The foundation operates as a supporting organization for flagler hospital.

Health

Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of boca raton regional 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…

Health

Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County

To strengthen jewish identity, energize the relationship with israel and meeting human needs that are uniquely the obligation of the jewish community.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater and the most unlike its peers is Direct Relief. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 37% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/49

the rest of the field

10%

5,422/52,243

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.

05the grantee network

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/46

Grantees still filing

34/46

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$504,606Human Services$104,692Education$26,880Health$18,717Arts & Culture$8,795Animals$4,425Recreation & Sports$4,000

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.

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.

Oceanfirst FoundationNJ21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Levine Family Foundation Inc · Wimberg Family Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Verizon 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 organisation JOHN AND NANCY SYKES FOUNDATION INCORPORATED 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE DONNY FUND INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 873980922 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE DONNY FUND INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 68% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated?

Find your warmest path to John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JOHN AND NANCY SYKES FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated?

More from the funding graph

JOHN AND NANCY SYKES FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated?

More from the funding graph