· Private foundation
Gefen-Jaffe 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 $10k23 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACKSONVILLE JEWISH CENTER | $31,414 |
| UNITED WAY OF NE FLORIDA | $25,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD CHARITIES | $7,500 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,100 |
| DREAMS COME TRUE | $5,000 |
| RIVER GARDEN HEBREW HOME FOR THE AGED | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| TORAH ACADEMY OF JACKSONVILLE | $3,000 |
| CONGREGATION OR TZION | $2,016 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $1,800 |
| THE TEMPLE | $1,125 |
| WOMEN INSPIRING NEXTGEN | $1,040 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC | $516 |
| THE FOUNDATION OF COMMUNITY HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE | $500 |
| GRACE ADVOCACY PROGRAM | $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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
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.
56 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 35 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $562 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
- JUJacksonville University2× · 2022–2024 · $18k · revenue +27%
- DCDREAMS COME TRUE OF JACKSONVILLE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +44%
- TATORAH ACADEMY OF JACKSONVILLE INC5× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- WHWOLFSON HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $5k
- NFNORTH FLORIDA SCHOOL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +46%
- JJJACKSONVILLE JEWISH ARTSone grant, 2021 · $3k
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 university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Florida Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Douglas Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 120 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 UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
- Who funds DREAMS COME TRUE OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER GARDEN HEBREW HOME FOR THE AGED INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH FLORIDA SCHOOL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN INSPIRING NEXTGEN ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION & FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READ USA INC ↗
- Who funds HAYDEN HURST FAMILY 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: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Dubow Family Foundation Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Selevan Family Foundation Inc · Beaver Street Foundation Inc · The Gate Foundation Inc · J&S Ansbacher Family Foundation Inc · Jay & Deanie Stein Foundation Trust · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Joan & H Ronald Levin Family 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 Gefen-Jaffe 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.
- Operation New Hope Inc — 13% of income from government
- Jewish Community Alliance Inc — 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Torah Academy of Jacksonville Inc — 4% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Read Usa Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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