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Lois Pope Life 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AFMDA | $140,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $30,000 |
| PALM BEACH SYMPHONY | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BELOUIR CASTLE | $25,000 |
| FLORIDA SHERIFFS YOUTH RANCHES INC | $25,000 |
| EXECUTIVE WOMEN OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS | $15,000 |
| THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA | $15,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE GUILD | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| SHARE INC | $5,000 |
| SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 14 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, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $311k 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
- LILEADERS IN FURTHERING EDUCATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $659k · revenue +32% · 43% of their budget
- AHAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2018 · $413k · revenue +120%
- TPTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC3× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $63k · revenue +206%
- ISINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PALMone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -86%
- PBPALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · 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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Belvoir Castle. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 56 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 LEADERS IN FURTHERING EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BELVOIR CASTLE ↗
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PALM ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PALM BEACH OPERA GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS 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: Quantum Foundation Inc · Jm Rubin Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Eleanor Patterson Reeves Foundation Inc · Seed for Peace Inc Bank of America Office Prk Fl9-200-05-34 · The Len-Ari Foundation Inc · Samuel J & Connie M Frankino Charitable Foundation · Children's Healthcare Charity Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Aeb Foundation Fka the Gail & Arthur Benjamin Fdtn · International Society of Palm · Lost Tree Village Charitable 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 Lois Pope Life 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.
- 211 Palm BeachTreasure Coast Inc — 17% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Jack the Bike Man 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.
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