· Private foundation
Pamela and Wayne Garrison Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM | $1,136,175 |
| PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY | $545,000 |
| BIG HORN BASEBALL CLUB | $375,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC | $25,000 |
| BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| PALM BEACH POLICE & FIRE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| KIDS DREAMS | $10,000 |
| SUFFIELD ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $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 (FY18–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Pamela and Wayne Garrison Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 3% of the giving stays in WY; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k 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
- PBPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +100%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC8× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +127%
- CRCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2019 · $115k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- CBCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $109k · revenue +79%
- SCSHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $65k · revenue -7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
Our mission is to grow the sport of pro rodeo, positively impact our communities, and provide an exceptional experience for our members, fans, and sponsors. continued, see schedule o.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of royal palm academy is to partner with families to provide an education of rich academics with catholic formation. we teach the mind, educate the heart, and form the character of tomorrow's leaders.
The physical therapy fund provides research and educational support for physical therapy.
To create beautiful running events that promote health and benefit our community.
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Pbc and the most unlike its peers is Sheridan County Rodeo. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 30 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 PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG HORN BASEBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
- Who funds Kids Dreams Inc ↗
- Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG HORN EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Polo Players Support Group Inc ↗
- Who funds POLO TRAINING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COUNTY RODEO ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds LEEDS FOUNDATION PBC 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: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Pamela and Wayne Garrison Family 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.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Palm Beach Day Academy 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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