· Private foundation
Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALLET PALM BEACH INC | $17,500 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION I | $16,000 |
| EVERGLADES LAW CENTER INC | $14,000 |
| RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER PERFORMING ARTS | $12,500 |
| EASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC | $10,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR REGIONAL CONSERVATION | $7,500 |
| THE GUATEMALAN-MAYA CENTER INC | $6,000 |
| ALEXANDER W DREYFOOS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $5,000 |
| BOCA BALLET THEATRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC | $5,000 |
| ANDREW RED HARRIS FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SE N FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| ST GEORGES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $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 (FY20–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +46% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 8 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- BPBallet Palm Beach Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $108k · revenue +150%
- FAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +56%
- ESEASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $57k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- FAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION Ione grant, 2024 · $39k
- FAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $28k
- RFRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +40%
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.
To educate, develop, advocate, and promote the visual and performing arts and cultural activities throughout Palm Beach County, Florida.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
To provide educational programming services.
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.
The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.
To inspire a better and more beautiful world by sharing edward bok's legacy.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
The area agency on aging of palm beach/treasure coast is a private, non-profit, regional agency whose mission is to advocate, plan and promote the independence, dignity, health and well-being of seniors and their caregivers in a manner…
Aia florida is the voice of the architecture profession.
To depict and preserve the natural and cultural heritage of south florida and the everglades in or botanical gardens and wildlife sanctuaries.
The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…
Lighthouse for the blind of the palm beaches, inc's mission is to assist persons with visual impairments to develop their capabilities to the fullest and to utilize them in the pursuits of life which are the right and privilege of all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is West Palm Beach Library Foundation Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 52 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 Ballet Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGLADES LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA BALLET THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREW RED HARRIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Georges Center Inc dba St George Table ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds The Inst for Regional Conservation ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Greening Corp ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds St Ann Place Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GUATEMALAN-MAYA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM BEACH LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PATH TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF PALM BEACH 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 · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Mestal Foundation · Extraordinary Charities Inc · The Mirasol Foundation Inc · Split Rock Charitable Foundation 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 Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma 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.
- The Inst for Regional Conservation — 35% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Hope Rural School Inc — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Community Greening Corp — 5% of income from government
- Boca Ballet Theatre Company — 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.