· Public charity
Palm Beach County Bar Association Inc
The mission of the PBCBA is to serve its members, foster professionalism and enhance the public's understanding and awareness of the legal system.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $17,563 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,240 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $677 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County | $11,213 |
| Cancer Alliance of Help & Hope | $2,000 |
| F Malcolm Cunningham Sr Bar Assn | $1,500 |
| Historical Society of Palm Beach County | $1,000 |
| Florida Association for Women Lawyers - FAWL | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Jewish Lawyers Assoc of Palm Beach Co | $300 |
| Palm Beach County Sheree Davis Cunningham Black Women Lawyers Assoc | $300 |
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 (FY17–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +80% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 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
- LALegal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +67%
- CACANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +222%
- FOFRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- PBPalm Beach County Food Bank Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +48%
- SHSUNSET HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +83%
- SWSMILEY WILEY BREAST CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -99%
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.
The organization provides legal aid to women in distress and victims of domestic violence.
To enhance and foster an understanding of the justice system and the role of each citizen in the system as an advocate for justice and fairness. to promote the study and understanding of florida's justice system and how its preservation…
Legal representation of children.
The south palm beach county foundation, inc. ("spbcf") is a community foundation dedicated to building legacies in south palm beach county and beyond.
To provide and serve as a leader in the state of florida, to encourage the provision of high quality legal services for the poor and provide support and assistance to all providers of legal assistance to the poor throughout the state.
We strive to serve as a leader in advancing ethical conduct, excellence, and the professionalism of our attorneys by providing ongoing legal education in support of our members, fostering an environment of public responsibility among legal…
Our mission is to recruit, train and support volunteer advocates to represent the best interests of abused and neglected children in the courtroom and other settings, helping the child welfare system and the courts find safety and…
Giving teenagers the ability to understand the importance of philanthropy by giving them the foundational fundraising skills that will allow them raise money for various charities that focus on improving the welfare of children or any…
To promote professionalism in law enforcement. to provide labor & collective bargaining services, legal assistance, education, legistlative representation and death and disability benefits to palm beach county police officers.
We nurture children's safety, well being and stability by supporting and training caregivers and advocating for families they support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Association for Women Lawyers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sunset House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
24 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. 24 of the 29 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 Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds CANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds El Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNSET HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SMILEY WILEY BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN LAWYERS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds HOLY GROUND SHELTER FOR HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds JUPITER POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Rescue Force of South Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds FAITH-HOPE-LOVE-CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds BROWARD COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC BAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PBC SHEREE DAVIS CUNNINGHAM BLACK WOMEN LAWYERS AS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds CCA FLORIDA FOUNDATION 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 · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Children's Healthcare Charity Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Palm Beach County Bar Association Inc 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.
- Faith-Hope-Love-Charity Inc — 100% of income from government
- Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Broward County Bar Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope 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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