· Private foundation
Joseph & Sherrie Garfield Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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: 52% of JOSEPH & SHERRIE GARFIELD CHARITABLE 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $507k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - HILLEL | $30,000 |
| CARE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| MESSIANIC JEWISH THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE (MJTI) | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| UNION OF MESSIANIC JEWISH CONGREGATIONS | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR TEL AVIV FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HIS HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOME | $30,000 |
| EDUCATE TOMORROW CORP | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MIAMI-DADE INC | $25,000 |
| KRISTI HOUSE INC | $21,641 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $20,272 |
| SHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE YEMIN ORDER | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $443k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
35 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TATHE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE TEL AVIV FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +289%
- HHHIS HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $217k · revenue +79%
- ETEDUCATE TOMORROW CORP8× · 2017–2024 · $201k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- FCFIRST CHOICE WOMEN'S CENTERone grant, 2017 · $5k
- BCBARTON-RAVLIN CHAPTER THE WOMEN'S CANCER ASSOCIATION UNIVERSITY OF MIAMIone grant, 2017 · $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.
To provide primary care and behavioral health services to children, adults, and families in south florida across a broad range of health services and community-based programs; and to oversee the coordinated child welfare system of care…
The mission of the ljd jewish family & community services, inc. is to strengthen the entire community by providing family and individual social services in the jewish tradition of helping people help themselves.
Provide crisis intervention for youths.
Families first of palm beach county, through innovative programs, promotes generational change by addressing families emotional, physical, and social well-being.
Provide services and programs for women, teens, children, and families of miami-dade county in focusing our mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
The organization aims to connect, nurture, and restore children and families in the communities they serve. the organization accomplishes this mission through their foster care and adoption program as well as their child advocacy center.…
To cultivate financial resources dedicated to building stronger families and stronger communities through the operations and programs of families first. contributing to the foundation is an investment in a safe, healthy and sustainable…
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
Organization mission: florida's children first is a non-profit, nonpartisan, independent advocacy organization committed to protecting and advancing the rights of children and youth impacted by the child welfare, juvenile justice, and…
The mission of ferd & gladys alpert jewish family & children's service of palm beach county, inc. is to serve the community by: - providing a range of needed social services to strengthen individuals and families. - participating in…
To provide miami valley homeless and vulnerable youth with services that promote safety, stability and well-being.
Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices for Children Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alfalit International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 41 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 THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE TEL AVIV FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds HIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE TOMORROW CORP ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds KRISTI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST SERVE MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds ALFALIT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HOPEFUL HAVEN 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: The Miami Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Peacock Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · The Kirk Foundation · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Hobbs Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Joseph & Sherrie Garfield Charitable 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.
- His House Inc — 75% of income from government
- Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
- Voices for Children Foundation Inc — 48% of income from government
- Care Elementary School Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
- Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
- Educate Tomorrow Corp — 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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