· Private foundation
Sharkey Family Foundation Inc
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 $10k5 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER | $85,000 |
| COX SCIENCE MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MACARTHUR STATE BEACH | $15,250 |
| FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| NAMI PALM BCH CTY | $10,000 |
| KRAVIS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH CT | $10,000 |
| FLAGLER MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| KINDNESS MATTERS 365 | $6,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MANATEE LAGOON | $5,000 |
| TRUSTBRIDGE HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FIRST TEE FLORIDA GOLD COAST | $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 (FY17–22, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Sharkey Family Foundation Inc’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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LMLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +38%
- FOFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +114%
- TZTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- SFSO FLORIDA SCIENCE MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $8k
- SFSO FL SCIENCE CENTER AND AQUARIUMone grant, 2017 · $5k
- ACAUGUSTA CHIWY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +210%
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.
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…
The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…
Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…
In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…
The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…
The center offers a glimpse into the marine & freshwater ecosystems of the area with interactive exhibits for all ages to explore. programs & events are designed to inspire guests to care for wildlife & the natural world.
Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.
We are a grassroots organization focused on the critical environmental issues of sw florida. we accomplish this through a myriad of efforts by the teams in our programmatic departments: science, policy, education and wildlife…
Our purpose is to protect and preserve the charlotte harbor/pine island sound estuary system. the culturally and economically important fishery that depends upon this ecosystem is under threat, and new conservation measures are urgently…
The mission of the Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa a/k/a ZooTampa at Lowry Park, is to rescue, rehabilitate and care for animals.(Expanded mission on Schedule O)ZooTampa creates exceptional personalized experiences that connect…
Clean miami beach is dedicated to keeping our community and natural habitats free of garbage and harmful pollutants with a focus on single-use plastics. the goal is to teach residents, and educate the youth of today, how everyone can…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Oceanographic Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Quantum 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.
19 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. 19 of the 34 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 LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MACARTHUR BEACH STATE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MANATEE LAGOON INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRASSY WATERS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA CHIWY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · 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 Sharkey Family 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.
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Children's Golf Foundation 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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