· Private foundation
Michael & Annie Falk Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $25,000 |
| Cleveland Clinic | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| IBG Foundation | $10,000 |
| West Palm Golf Community Tr | $6,000 |
| Crossroads Gospel Association | $6,000 |
| Hearst Castle Preservation Fnd | $5,000 |
| NCGA Foundation-Youth on Course | $5,000 |
| Florida Oceangraphic Society | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 134 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 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGICAL CULTURE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds IBG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Adopt a Family Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE 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 ↗
- Who funds Foundation for a Better Puerto Rico 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michael & Annie Falk Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael & Annie Falk Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Michael & Annie Falk Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Michael & Annie Falk 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 Michael & Annie Falk’s filings →