· Public charity
Lyford Cay Foundation Inc
Lyford cay foundation, inc.
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.
The 27 grants below total $431,770 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $731,668 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $299,898 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $394k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| HOWARD UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY | $30,000 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI | $20,000 |
| KETTERING UNIVERSITY | $19,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS | $15,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| HARTWICK COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| MIDDLE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of your 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
Grants abroad, by region — $215k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE FOR POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE FOR POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION · GRANT ASSISTANCE FOR OPERATING SUPPORT
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE FOR POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 6 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
- FMFlorida Memorial University Inc2× · 2018–2020 · $268k · revenue +28%
- FSFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +31%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $90k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- GEGLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +84%
- FMFLORIDA MEMORIAL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $96k
- ORORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue +58%
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Global Emergency Relief Recovery and Reconstruction. 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 66 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 114 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 Florida Memorial University Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
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- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS ↗
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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: Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Chemical Society · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · National Academy of Sciences · University of Miami · The Aspen Institute Inc · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · I Car Education Foundation · The Miami Foundation 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 Lyford Cay 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.
- University of Delaware — 25% of income from government
- Florida Memorial University Inc — 18% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 11% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 3% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Southeastern University Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oral Roberts University — 0% of income from government
- Barry University Inc — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 0% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Pensacola Christian College Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Southern College — 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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