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The Jeffery Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PALM BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| PALM BEACH FREEDOM INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS | $10,000 |
| TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| THE PALM BEACH POLICE & FIRE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 35% of The Jeffery Family 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, 100% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 68% — 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 +40% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TPThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +215%
- PBPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +2%
- PBPalm Beach Civic Association Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- TPThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Incone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -17%
- CSCox Science Center and Aquarium Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +90%
- JTJack The Bike Man Incone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -25%
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…
Promote educational opportunities and events for our local communities that highlight benefits of Palm Beach county agriculture regarding food security, economic impacts adn environmental stewardship.
To promote professionalism in law enforcement. to provide labor & collective bargaining services, legal assistance, education, legistlative representation and death and disability benefits to palm beach county police officers.
To promote tourism in Palm Beach County, through the provision of accommodations, meals, hotels, and entrance fees for visiting travel agents.
Dedicated to uniting physicians to serve the common interest of the profession, developing and maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards of the medical profession, advocating the interest of physicians and their patients,…
The Forum Club of the Palm Beaches educates and informs the community's business, political and social interests and promotes a more active participation by all citizens in the democratic process by inviting students and the…
The mission of the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches is to create and promote a favorable business climate in the Palm Beaches. This is accomplished by energetically representing the collective interests of business in the private…
Establish a forum for current events & education
To educate, develop, advocate, and promote the visual and performing arts and cultural activities throughout Palm Beach County, Florida.
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 Organization provides a forum for local member union firefighters to address their labor and collective bargaining issues. Political candidates and issues affecting wages, benefits, and working conditions are discussed, addressed, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Palm Beach Civic Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jack the Bike Man Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 11 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 The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds Jack The Bike Man Inc ↗
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.
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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 Jeffery Family 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.
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
- Jack the Bike Man Inc — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University 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.
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