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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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| BAK MIDDLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $7,500 |
| MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $4,000 |
| ACLU | $3,000 |
| VINCEREMOS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $2,500 |
| PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $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 |
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 (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 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
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.
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
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
- 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
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% 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 17% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 92 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 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 BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Healthy MothersHealthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Mestal Foundation 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
- 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
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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