· Private foundation
Mestal Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k53 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH ATLANTIC | $10,000 |
| ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $7,500 |
| BAK MIDDLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $4,000 |
| ACLU | $3,000 |
| PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $2,500 |
| VINCEREMOS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA | $2,000 |
| BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE | $2,000 |
| PALM BEACH ZOO & CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INC | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 10 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +17%
- SOSchool of the Arts Foundation Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +40%
- PBPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- SXST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
- BMBAK MIDDLE SCHOOL ARTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $7k
- PBPalm Beach Hab CenterARCone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To enrich, inspire and engage the Palm Beach County community, enhancing the quality of our lives through educational and cultural programs in art, music, drama, literature, historical and current affairs.
The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
To inspire a better and more beautiful world by sharing edward bok's legacy.
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
How this is measured
61 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. 61 of the 92 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.
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Bar Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM BEACH LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds Vinceremos Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians and Jews Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Jack The Bike Man Inc ↗
- Who funds Healthy MothersHealthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · The William a Meyer Foundation · Jm Rubin Foundation Inc · The Mirasol Foundation Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Eric Friedheim Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mestal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mestal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 211 Palm BeachTreasure Coast Inc: 17% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
- Kingdom County Productions Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Armory Art Center Inc: 0% of income from government
- Jack the Bike Man Inc: 0% of income from government
- Lake Worth Playhouse Inc: 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Mestal Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Mestal Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
Play a game based on Mestal’s filings →