· Private foundation
The Daniel E Ponton Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE | $14,000 |
| PALM BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| COMPASS | $10,000 |
| TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| THE PROMISE FUND | $5,000 |
| PALM BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| RED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY | $5,000 |
| THE PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE ORDER OF ST JOHN | $3,090 |
| PALM BEACH ZOO | $2,500 |
| CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION | $2,500 |
| GLADES ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BELVOIR CASTLE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DARBSTER RESCUE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +112% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- TOTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +54%
- PBPalm Beach Civic Association Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +115%
- CICOMPASS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +58%
Funded once
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +105%- PBPALM BEACH ISLAND HOSPICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k
- KDKids Dreams Incone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -68%
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.
Palm Health Foundation invests in bold, community-led solutions that improve health and well-being in Palm Beach County. (Continued on Schedule O)Established in 2001 from the sale of Good Samaritan and St. Mary's hospitals, the Foundation…
To enrich, inspire and engage the Palm Beach County community, enhancing the quality of our lives through educational and cultural programs in art, music, drama, literature, historical and current affairs.
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…
Palm beach island hospice foundation was established exclusively to support the programs, services and activities which further comprehensive hospice care in palm beach county, florida through its fundraising efforts.
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,…
Phelps memorial hospital association ("pmha") is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…
The foundation is the nexus of palm beach county's public schools, the private sector, and the community. it facilitates student achievement by supporting high quality public education through partnership, grants, events and public…
Boca raton regional hospital foundation, inc. supports the hospital's mission of providing superior, compassionate health care through the cultivation and stewardship of philanthropic gifts and raising the public awareness of the hospital…
Plainview hospital is part of northwell health, inc ("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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Depression Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Hsan Iv 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 39 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 Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPASS INC ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds RED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Glades Academy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE DARBSTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kids Dreams Inc ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians and Jews Inc ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Island Cats Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HSAN IV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
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 Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Daniel E Ponton 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
- South Florida Pbs 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.