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Lyford Cay Foundation Inc
Lyford cay foundation, inc.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $394k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY | $30,000 |
| HOWARD UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI | $20,000 |
| KETTERING UNIVERSITY | $19,500 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS | $15,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| MIDDLE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| AVERETT UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| LYNN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| HARTWICK COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +138%
- FMFLORIDA MEMORIAL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $96k
- ORORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue +58%
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.
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.
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.
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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…
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How this is measured
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lyford Cay Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lyford Cay Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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