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Paul Palank Memorial Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$575k
Granted FY2023
24
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202023.

Human Services$1.2MCivil Rights$298kCrime & Legal$172kEducation$166kHealth$90kHousing & Shelter$89kYouth Development$40kOther$0
02FY2023 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k23 grants · $525k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HARBOR$50,000
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$30,000
AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE$30,000
KRISTI HOUSE$30,000
VOICES FOR CHILDREN OF BROWARD$30,000
VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION$30,000
FLITE$30,000
HANDY$25,000
FUMCH$25,000
GOODMAN JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$25,000
KIDS IN DISTRESS$25,000
FAMILY CENTRAL$25,000
PROPELLING INTO TRIUMPH$25,000
FOSTER CARE REVIEW$25,000
EDUCATE TOMORROW$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HANDS AND FEET: $15k → 11%HANDS AND FEET: $15k → 11%ARC BROWARD: $15k → 13%ARC BROWARD: $15k → 13%WOMEN IN DISTRESS: $35k → 13%ARC BROWARD: $15k → 13%WOMEN IN DISTRESS: $30k → 13%ARC BROWARD: $11k → 13%WOMEN IN DISTRESS: $25k → 13%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY: $20k → 15%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 15%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY: $15k → 15%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 15%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 15%CHILDREN'S HARBOR: $95k → 13%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY: $10k → 15%CHILDREN'S HARBOR: $50k → 13%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 15%CHILDREN'S HARBOR: $50k → 13%CHILDREN'S HARBOR: $38k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE: $20k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 13%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $20k → 15%FLITE: $38k → 13%FLITE: $30k → 13%FAMILY CENTRAL: $25k → 13%FLITE: $25k → 13%FAMILY CENTRAL: $20k → 13%CHILDNET: $20k → 13%FAMILY CENTRAL: $19k → 13%FLITE: $15k → 13%KIDS IN DISTRESS: $25k → 13%FAMILY CENTRAL: $25k → 13%KIDS IN DISTRESS: $25k → 13%KIDS IN DISTRESS: $25k → 13%KIDS IN DISTRESS: $19k → 13%FLORIDA'S CHILDREN FIRST: $25k → 13%FLORIDAS CHILDREN FIRST: $25k → 13%FLORIDAS CHILDREN FIRST: $19k → 13%FLORIDAS CHILDREN FIRST: $16k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 28 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
4

Total granted

$2.2M
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+217%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCrime & LegalEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • CH
    CHILDRENS HARBOR INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $233k · revenue +6%
  • ET
    EDUCATE TOMORROW CORP
    4× · 2020–2023 · $140k · revenue +75%
  • FI
    FLORIDA INDEPENDENCE TRAINING & EDUCATION CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $108k · revenue +221%

Funded once

  • RG
    REYNA GROUP HOME
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • CI
    CHILDNET INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +18%
  • HO
    HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MORTGAGE ASSIST & EFFECTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD SOLUTIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $19k · revenue +217%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Citrus Health Network Inc

To provide primary care and behavioral health services to children, adults, and families in south florida across a broad range of health services and community-based programs; and to oversee the coordinated child welfare system of care…

2
Miami Childrens Initiative Inc

The mission is to create a community-based network that develops coordinates and provides quality education accessible health care youth development programs opportunities for employment and safe neighborhoods for children and families…

Community Improvement
3
Adoption Authority Inc

Providing compassion, respect, and loving care to each individual on their unique adoption journey. We commit to honoring and nurturing expectant mothers through pregnancy, birth, and life after placement.

4
Children's Case Management Organization Inc D/B/a Families First of Pb County

Families first of palm beach county, through innovative programs, promotes generational change by addressing families emotional, physical, and social well-being.

Environment
5
Family Nurturing Center of Florida Inc

To provide a nurturing environment for families impacted by divorce, custody battles, and domestic violence, by keeping children safe during these challenging times and helping parents foster positive relationships with their children.

Crime & Legal
6
Better Together Strengthening Familes Inc

Better together helps at-risk families by empowering parents and surrounding them with community, meaningful work opportunities, and practical support. our volunteer-driven, professionally supported model provides direct services so that…

Human Services
7
Institute for Child and Family Health Inc

The institute for child and family health is committed to empowering the children, youth and families of miami-dade county, florida by providing services that enhance their emotional, physical and educational well-being.

8
Florida Alliance of Children's Councils & Trusts Inc

To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…

9
Youth Haven Inc

Providing home, hope and healing to abused and neglected children and teens in southwest florida.

Human Services
10
Isaiah's Place 1

The organization aims to connect, nurture, and restore children and families in the communities they serve. the organization accomplishes this mission through their foster care and adoption program as well as their child advocacy center.…

Human Services
11
Santa Rosa Kids' House Inc

To deliver a well coordinated and multi-disciplined response to child abuse in an environment that puts children first

Youth Development
12
Court Appointed Special Advocate Guardian Ad Litem of Miami Co Inc

To provide dedicated volunteers to advocate in court for the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids in Distress Inc and the most unlike its peers is 4 Kids Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%14%<5yr18%0%5–10yr22%9%10–20yr14%36%20–35yr7%23%35–55yr10%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%6%<5yr18%0%5–10yr22%14%10–20yr14%45%20–35yr7%19%35–55yr10%17%55yr+

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
19%
4,295/22,945

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.

04the grantee network

23 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDRENS HARBOR INC — $232,500 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS HARBOR INCFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INCFLORIDA INDEPENDENCE TRAINING & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $107,500 · Human ServicesFLORIDA INDEPENDENCE TRAINING & EDUCATION CENTER…KIDS IN DISTRESS INC — $93,750 · Human ServicesKIDS IN DISTRESS INCWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INCFAMILY CENTRAL INC — $88,750 · Human ServicesFAMILY CENTRAL INCFLORIDA'S CHILDREN FIRST INC — $84,750 · Human ServicesFLORIDA'S CHILDREN FIRST INCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA — $65,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDAARC BROWARD INC — $56,250 · Human ServicesARC BROWARD INC+3 more — $80,000 · Human Services+3 moreVOICES FOR CHILDREN OF DADE — $137,500 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDREN OF DADESOS CHILDRENS VILLAGE — $95,000 · OtherSOS CHILDRENS VILLAGECatholic Charities Legal Services Archdiocese of Miami Inc — $87,500 · OtherCatholic Charities Legal Services Archdiocese …VOICES FOR CHILDREN OF BROWARD — $80,000 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDREN OF BROWARDPACE — $75,000 · OtherPACEFUMCH — $71,250 · OtherFUMCHDR STANLEY AND PEARL GOODMAN JFS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $70,000 · OtherDR STANLEY AND PEARL GOODMAN JFS OF BROWARD CO…HANDY — $68,750 · OtherHANDYIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAMILLUS HOUSE INC — $45,000 · OtherJAFCO — $43,750 · OtherFOSTER CARE REVIEW INC — $40,000 · Other+5 more — $95,000 · Other+5 moreAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER — $80,000 · Crime & LegalKRISTI HOUSE INC — $78,750 · Crime & LegalEDUCATE TOMORROW CORP — $140,000 · International4 KIDS CORP — $33,750 · EducationPROJECT YESINC — $26,250 · EducationPropelling Into Triumph Inc — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MORTGAGE ASSIST & EFFECTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD SOLUTIONS INC — $18,750 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$1,008,500Other$968,750Crime & Legal$158,750International$140,000Education$60,000Youth Development$25,000Housing & Shelter$18,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDRENS HARBOR INC — $232,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetEDUCATE TOMORROW CORP — $140,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $110,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetFLORIDA INDEPENDENCE TRAINING & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $107,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetKIDS IN DISTRESS INC — $93,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY CENTRAL INC — $88,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities Legal Services Archdiocese of Miami Inc — $87,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFLORIDA'S CHILDREN FIRST INC — $84,750 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER — $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKRISTI HOUSE INC — $78,750 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDR STANLEY AND PEARL GOODMAN JFS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARC BROWARD INC — $56,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTER CARE REVIEW INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHands and Feet Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT YESINC — $26,250 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPropelling Into Triumph Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCHILDNET INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MORTGAGE ASSIST & EFFECTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD SOLUTIONS INC — $18,750 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Batchelor Foundation IncFL28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Paul Palank Memorial Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Kristi House Inc49% of income from government
  • Voices for Children Foundation Inc48% of income from government
  • Foster Care Review Inc33% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida6% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc2% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc1% of income from government
  • Kids in Distress Inc0% of income from government
  • Educate Tomorrow Corp0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Paul Palank Memorial Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Paul Palank Memorial Foundation Inc 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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