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The Charles Lafitte Florida Foundation at a glance

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The Charles Lafitte Florida Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$641k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$12MRecreation & Sports$1.1MHealth$636kFood & Nutrition$150kYouth Development$105kAnimals$100kHuman Services$95kPhilanthropy$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $305k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST TEE$250,000
Duke University$125,000
Nicklaus Children's Health Care FDN$115,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL$65,000
GAME CONSERVANCY USA INC$25,000
MANE STREAM$20,000
TOWN EMPLOYEES CHRISTMAS FUND$10,000
Marys Place by the Sea$5,200
The Frances Foundation for Kids Fig$5,000
JUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUB INC$5,000
Hackensack Meridian Health FND$5,000
The Partnership for a Drug-Free NJ$5,000
JUPITER ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL$5,000
Jupiter Island Residents Associatio$1,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $10k → 9%HOUSE OF CHERITH: $10k → 13%Place of Hope: $25k → 11%Place of Hope: $25k → 11%Place of Hope: $25k → 11%Place of Hope: $6k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
MT
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MD
DE
NC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 24 repeat orgs$602k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
50

Total granted

$14M
$501k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+31%

Still filing today

63%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +51%
  • PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $767k · revenue +65%
  • NC
    Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation
    8× · 2017–2025 · $310k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +253%
  • NC
    NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOU
    one grant, 2024 · $60k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Staten Island University Hospital Foundation

The mission of staten island university hospital's foundation is to achieve philanthropic relationships for support and endowment, providing highest quality care, services and state of the art equipment. philanthropy has played an…

Health
2
Jupiter Medical Center Physicians Group Inc

JMCPG is committed to providing compassionate, personalized care from the region's most trusted team of physicians and health care professionals. Across the Palm Beaches and the Treasure Coast of Florida, JMCPG practice locations offer…

Health
3
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

The feinstein institute for medical research ("the institute") is the research branch of northwell health ("northwell"). through its affiliation with northwell, the institute's mission is to bridge the gap between biomedical research and…

Health
4
The Valerie Fund

To raise funds to support comprehensive healthcare for children with cancer and blood disorders.

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5
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
6
The Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia & Parkinson Foundation of Mount Sinai Inc

The foundation was established in 1995 to raise funds to find better treatments and cures for the movement disorders associated with dystonia and parkinson's disease and for medical research related to these diseases.

Philanthropy
7
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
8
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
9
Shands Jacksonville Foundation Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Education
10
Jupiter Medical Center Inc

The mission of jupiter medical center is to deliver excellent and compassionate healthcare advancing the well-being of the people we serve, regardless of their ability to pay. certain services are provided at a loss or at no payment…

Health
11
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Black Stork. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/47
Grantees still filing
31/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,832,672 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $766,667 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY+6 more: $136,000 · EducationFIRST TEE: $1,000,000 · OtherFIRST TEEFOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUN: $150,000 · OtherFOODBANK OF …BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL: $65,000 · OtherNICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOU: $60,000 · Other+40 more: $308,265 · Other+40 moreNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $310,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Friends of Black Stork: $100,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $100,000 · PhilanthropyHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $30,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $3,500 · PhilanthropyGAME CONSERVANCY USA INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY ASAP: $16,000 · HealthMARY'S PLACE BY THE SEA INC: $15,200 · HealthTHE FRANCES FOUNDATION FOR KIDS FIGHTING CANCER INC: $15,000 · HealthSAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · HealthInternational OCD Foundation Inc: $9,789 · Health+2 more: $5,000 · HealthPLACE OF HOPE INC: $81,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHouse of Cherith Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BRIDGE OF BOOKS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJUPITER ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJUPITER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$11,735,339Other$1,583,265Philanthropy$543,500Recreation & Sports$120,000Health$115,989Human Services$101,000Arts & Culture$44,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,832,672 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $766,667 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $310,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Black Stork: $100,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGAME CONSERVANCY USA INC: $100,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $81,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY ASAP: $16,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetMARY'S PLACE BY THE SEA INC: $15,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FRANCES FOUNDATION FOR KIDS FIGHTING CANCER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUBINC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BRIDGE OF BOOKS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTIGGER STAVOLA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMONMOUTH DAY CARE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHouse of Cherith Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetInternational OCD Foundation Inc: $9,789 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY FOR PRECISION LEARNING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBroward Education Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJERSEY STRONG FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHY'S PLACE - A NEW LIFE SUPPORT CENTER FOR GRIEF AND LOSS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSTOWE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,200 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBRIELLE FIRE COMPANY NO 1: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Development Wing Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOWE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE GREENE SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New Jersey Natural Ga…Oceanfirst FoundationManasquan Bank Charit…The Ansell Grimm & Aa…The Jay and Linda Gru…The Patton Charitable…George and Ruth Harms…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Verizon FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Robert Wood Johns…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity IncNJ21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ansell Grimm & Aaron Foundation Inc · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · The Patton Charitable Foundation · George and Ruth Harms Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Charles Lafitte Florida Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles Lafitte Florida Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Family Justice Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Monmouth Day Care Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Mane Stream Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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