· Private foundation
Michael & Annie Falk Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k32 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Palm Bch Police and Firefighter Fnd | $85,000 |
| Ellis Island Honors Society | $50,000 |
| The Ecology Center | $42,550 |
| American Heart Assn | $38,375 |
| The Fund WPB | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,500 |
| Cleveland Clinic | $25,000 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $25,000 |
| IBG Foundation | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Crossroads Gospel Association | $6,000 |
| West Palm Golf Community Tr | $6,000 |
| Hearst Castle Preservation Fnd | $5,000 |
| Global Lyme Alliance | $5,000 |
| Florida Oceangraphic Society | $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 (FY22–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 32 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2023 · $450k · revenue +49%- TPThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc2× · 2020–2022 · $129k · revenue +132%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $124k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- DUDuke University Foundationone grant, 2021 · $150k
- WGWPB Golf Community Trone grant, 2021 · $125k
- WPWest Palm Beach Golf Community Trusone grant, 2022 · $125k
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.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.
The mission of this organization shall be to educate the general public about environmental practices which cause harm to human health, the environment and other natural resources; and to seek redress of these harms through litigation or…
To scale coral reef restoration through a holistic model of art, science and community. we design marine regeneration hubs that consist of sculptural coral gardens and land-based coral farms. we aim to target local impacts on reefs while…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
See schedule odedicated to rescuing, protecting and providing sanctuary for elephants worldwide. our founding directors and elephant care specialist consult internationally for the wellbeing of captive elephants. currently based in brazil,…
Iucn-us fund builds bridges between us donors and iucn by catalyzing, accelerating, funding and promoting iucn's work - conserving nature and natural resources in the united states and throughout the world.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queens College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ecological Culture Initiative. 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 32 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 134 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGICAL CULTURE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IBG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Adopt a Family Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Amazon Watch Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PECONIC BAYKEEPER 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: Earle I Mack Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Michael & Annie Falk 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission 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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