· Private foundation
The Ellen and Ian Graham Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $234k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $457k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC | $1,400,000 |
| NETA FOUNDATION | $1,300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $129,700 |
| CENTER FOR PRESERVING ARTISTS LEGACIES | $100,000 |
| THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $77,000 |
| THE PALM BEACH POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| GLADES ACADEMY INC | $75,000 |
| CELTIC FC FOUNDATION | $32,600 |
| HIBERNIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $32,600 |
| TURNING POINT USA INC | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION INC | $25,000 |
| THE PRESHAL TRUST | $19,700 |
| FRIENDS OF ST ANDREWS | $19,700 |
| RANGERS CHARITY FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| THE HOLIDAY PROJECT | $13,200 |
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 (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 46% of The Ellen and Ian Graham Foundation Inc’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, 49% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 8% — 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.
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 Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach advocates, educates, and invests in the community to protect the architectural, botanical, and cultural heritage of Palm Beach.
To educate, develop, advocate, and promote the visual and performing arts and cultural activities throughout Palm Beach County, Florida.
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
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…
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…
Enrichment of life through exhibitions, community programs, workshops, and educational activities that promote the art of photography and digital imaging.
Palm springs art museum creates transformative experiences that expand our understanding of ourselves and the world. palm springs art museum has a wide-reaching and growing permanent collection of over 12,000 objects rooted in modern and…
We will provide a moral and rigorous education, accomplished in a hands-on, technology infused educational environment that will allow our students to attend college, while developing a commitment to global citizenship, environmental…
Please refer to schedule o for the organization's complete mission statement.
The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Society of the Four Arts Inc and 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.
8 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. 8 of the 22 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 NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GLADES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH CULTURAL INNOVATION CENTER ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Ellen and Ian Graham 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.
- Center for Creative Education — 2% 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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