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Kerry & Simone Vickar Family Foundation at a glance

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Kerry & Simone Vickar Family 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$201k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$2.7MPhilanthropy$1.1MYouth Development$653kEducation$602kPublic Safety & Disaster$544kArts & Culture$532kFood & Nutrition$236kHousing & Shelter$217kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $249k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
$12,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cleveland Clinic Foundation$201,400
Jewish Fed Palm Beach$201,000
Atrium Health Foundation$200,000
Roof Above$160,800
Boys & Girls Club of Palm Beach County$102,500
AIEF$100,000
Crossnore Communities for Children$100,000
Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation$86,000
University of Manitoba$75,000
Palm Beach Harvest$55,000
Glazer Hall Palm Beach$50,000
Promise Fund of Florida$35,800
Toys for Tots$25,000
Palm Beach Synagogue$25,000
Turning Point USA$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $3k → 13%Wounded Warrior Project: $3k → 14%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%Blessings in a Backpack: $3k → 15%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
RI
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.3M · 36 repeat orgs$905k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
40

Total granted

$6.3M
$780k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+21%

Still filing today

61%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AH
    ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +151%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $653k · revenue +67%
  • TP
    The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $468k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $280k · revenue +31%
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • TO
    THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +1%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

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…

Health
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

Health
5
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
6
Usf Research Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.

Education
7
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
9
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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12
Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc

Bethesda hospital foundation is a not-for-profit organization established for the benefit and support of bethesda hospital. its purpose is to assist the hospital in accomplishing its mission through the acquisition, management and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 87 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
39/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cleveland Clinic Foundation: $897,800 · OtherCleveland Clinic FoundationJewish Fed Palm Beach: $830,100 · OtherJewish Fed Palm BeachUniversity of Manitoba: $298,316 · OtherUniversity of ManitobaCLEVELAND CLINIC: $200,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINICAIEF: $170,000 · OtherPALM BEACH HARVEST INC: $225,000 · OtherPALM BEACH HARVEST INC+52 more: $715,160 · Other+52 moreATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN: $310,000 · HealthCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FO…+8 more: $67,350 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $652,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC: $280,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE …ROOF ABOVE INC: $215,800 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOVE…NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $114,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUS…ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $7,000 · Arts & CultureThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $468,150 · Crime & LegalJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $275,000 · EducationThe Quail Hollow Employee Betterment Fund: $20,500 · Education+3 more: $13,675 · EducationMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $160,605 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $40,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $36,500 · PhilanthropyADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,336,376Health$1,577,350Youth Development$652,500Arts & Culture$641,800Crime & Legal$468,150Education$309,175Philanthropy$277,105

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $652,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $468,150 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN: $310,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC: $280,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH HARVEST INC: $225,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $215,800 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $160,605 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $114,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $52,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGODS PIT CREW INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $36,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Quail Hollow Employee Betterment Fund: $20,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF PALM BEACH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPELOTONIA: $10,175 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEATHER ABBOTT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSchool of the Arts Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINVILLE CENTRAL RESCUE SQUAD INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCELEBRITIES FORE KIDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
  • Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PALM BEACH HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
  • Who funds GODS PIT CREW INC ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Quail Hollow Employee Betterment Fund ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PALM BEACH INC ↗
  • Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
  • Who funds LINVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Duke Energy FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY12.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kerry & Simone Vickar Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kerry & Simone Vickar Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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