· Private foundation
The Circle of Friends Foundation
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 $10k16 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROWARD PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC | $13,484 |
| PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS - BROWARD | $12,278 |
| HENDERSON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $4,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,000 |
| WOMEN IN DISTRESS INC | $2,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,500 |
| VOICES FOR THE CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| CHILDRENS AID CLUB | $750 |
| NSU ART MUSEUM | $700 |
| PANTRY OF BROWARD | $500 |
| TASKFORCE FOR ENDING HOMELESSNESS | $500 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER BROWARD | $500 |
| UNCS CARES FOUNDATION | $500 |
| THE CARING PLACE | $500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD | $250 |
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, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of The Circle of Friends Foundation’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. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 16 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 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
- BPBROWARD PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC3× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +126%
- WIWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +135%
- HBHENDERSON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- PCPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +28%
- HAHELPING ADVANCE AND NURTURE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH INC (HANDY INC)graduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +166%
- FLFORT LAUDERDALE WOMANS CLUBone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -23%
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.
Organization mission: florida's children first is a non-profit, nonpartisan, independent advocacy organization committed to protecting and advancing the rights of children and youth impacted by the child welfare, juvenile justice, and…
Mission the mission of broward house is to improve the quality of life for individuals impacted with chronic health challenges, including hiv, by providing pathways to wellness. vision providing hope and healing to our communities,
The lord's place, inc. (the lord's place or agency) is a non-sectarian organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of homelessness for men, women and children in our community. supportive services offered through our housing programs…
To save the lives of those impacted by breast cancer by supporting sscientific research, community education, public policy through advocacy, and community-based organizations.
To cultivate financial resources dedicated to building stronger families and stronger communities through the operations and programs of families first. contributing to the foundation is an investment in a safe, healthy and sustainable…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.
The space coast health foundation will enhance the health and wellness of individuals and communities in brevard county. the foundation will carry out this mission by: routinely talking with the community to maintain a pulse on the health…
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
Broward regional health planning council is committed to delivering health and human service innovations at the national, state, and local level through planning, direct services, evaluation and capacity building.
Families first of palm beach county, through innovative programs, promotes generational change by addressing families emotional, physical, and social well-being.
Safety, empowerment, and social change for victims of domestic violence and their families. to that end we offer a full compendium of services for victims of domestic violence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids in Distress Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saving Sage Animal Rescue 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.
Your grantees are a median of 30 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 66 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 BROWARD PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TASKFORCE FORE ENDING HOMELESSNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PANTRY OF BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS AID CLUB ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIRCH STATE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING ADVANCE AND NURTURE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH INC (HANDY INC) ↗
- Who funds FORT LAUDERDALE WOMANS CLUB ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNCS CARES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds 1000 CLUB TO BENEFIT CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CARING PLACE ↗
- Who funds TOMORROW'S RAINBOW INC ↗
- Who funds Voice for Children Inc AKA Voices for Children of Florida ↗
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 of Broward Inc · The Harry T Mangurian Jr Foundation Inc · Bbx Capital Foundation Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Florida Panthers Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Hi Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Alan & Marsha Levy Charitable Foundation Inc · The William R Watts Fndn Inc · United Way of Broward County Inc · The Amaturo 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 The Circle of Friends Foundation 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.
- Helping Advance and Nurture the Development of Youth Inc (Handy Inc) — 21% of income from government
- Taskforce Fore Ending Homelessness Inc — 17% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Broward Partnership for the Homeless Inc — 5% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Kids in Distress Inc — 0% of income from government
- Henderson Behavioral Health 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.