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The Daft Family Foundation at a glance

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The Daft Family 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.

$182k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$260kHealth$96kEducation$90kHuman Services$80kReligion$67kPublic Safety & Disaster$24kCrime & Legal$20kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Palm Beach Opera$65,000
Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation$24,300
The Church of Bethesda by the Sea$24,000
Mayo Clinic$20,000
Cambridge In America$20,000
Society of the Four Arts$10,000
The Order of St John$8,500
Palm Beach Dramaworks$5,000
Kravis Center Foundation$4,900
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%See: $205k → 12%Mayo Clinic: $20k → 9%Cambridge In America: $20k → 17%The Order of St John: $14k → 14%Palm Beach Opera: $65k → 11%Miami City Ballet: $5k → 15%Kent School: $10k → 9%The Westminster Schools: $20k → 13%See: $194k → 12%Mayo Clinic: $20k → 9%Cambridge In America: $20k → 17%The Order of St John: $14k → 14%Palm Beach Opera: $65k → 11%Miami City Ballet: $5k → 15%See: $191k → 12%Mayo Clinic: $20k → 9%Cambridge In America: $20k → 17%The Order of St John: $9k → 14%Palm Beach Opera: $55k → 11%Bonefish Tarpon Trust: $3k → 15%See: $180k → 12%American Australian Association: $5k → 17%Norton Museum of Art: $5k → 11%See: $177k → 12%Palm Beach Dramaworks: $5k → 11%See: $156k → 12%Palm Beach Dramaworks: $5k → 11%Clark Art Institute: $5k → 12%Palm Beach Dramaworks: $5k → 11%Clark Art Institute: $5k → 12%Kravis Center Foundation: $5k → 11%Kravis Center Foundation: $5k → 11%Norton Museum of Art: $5k → 11%Fraternal Order of Police: $10k → 11%Fraternal Order of Police: $10k → 11%Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation: $24k → 11%The Church of Bethesda by the Sea: $24k → 11%The Church of Bethesda by the Sea: $22k → 11%The Church of Bethesda by the Sea: $21k → 11%Society of the Four Arts: $10k → 11%Society of the Four Arts: $10k → 11%Society of the Four Arts: $10k → 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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 12 repeat orgs$132k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

$1.6M
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-3%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHealthAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PB
    PALM BEACH OPERA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $185k · revenue +73%
  • TS
    The Society of the Four Arts Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +539%
  • PB
    PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • A
    AUSUSA
    one grant, 2023 · $70k
  • TW
    The Westminster Schools Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -3%
  • KS
    KENT SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -9%
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
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

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.

Education
5
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
6
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

The academy operates a post-secondary educational program in fine arts as well as a gallery collection of american art. in addition, the academy sponsors fine arts classes for all ages and free arts programs.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
11
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Society of the Four Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Palm Beach Police and Fire 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.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

See: $1,101,700 · OtherSeeAUSUSA: $70,000 · OtherAUSUSACHURCH OF BETHESDA BY THE SEA INC: $66,550 · Other+2 more: $29,300 · OtherPALM BEACH OPERA INC: $185,000 · Arts & CulturePALM BEACH OPERA…The Society of the Four Arts Inc: $30,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of t…PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePALM BEACH DRAMA…STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $9,600 · Arts & CultureMAYO CLINIC: $60,000 · HealthPRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM: $35,500 · HealthCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $60,000 · InternationalAMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · InternationalThe Westminster Schools Inc: $20,000 · EducationKENT SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $24,300 · Crime & LegalBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $2,500 · Animals
Other$1,267,550Arts & Culture$259,600Health$95,500International$65,000Education$30,000Crime & Legal$24,300Animals$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPALM BEACH OPERA INC: $185,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM: $35,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $24,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKENT SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $9,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Daft Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Daft Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 19 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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