· Private foundation
The Joe Namath Charitable 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NANA'S RESTART | $20,000 |
| ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $10,000 |
| TEQUESTA FRIENDS OF PUBLIC SAFETY INC | $10,000 |
| WEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC | $10,000 |
| BANNER LAKE COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| TKJD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HANNAHS HOME OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $7,000 |
| MELISSA'S LEGACY FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| CHALLENGERS ATHLETICS | $7,000 |
| FIRST TEE | $7,000 |
| VILLA MARIE SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| CHRISTIAN ASSEMBY OF BEAVER FALLS | $7,000 |
| BARBARA'S HOUSE | $7,000 |
| FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 12 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- HHHANNAH'S HOME OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +225%
- WRWARRIORS RENEWAL COALITION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $27k · revenue +78%
- NFNEXTGEN FACE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- DLDUNBAR LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2022 · $25k
- TSThe Shack Harris and Doug Williams Foundationone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue -11%
- ACAdoption Connection PAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +97%
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.
The foundation provides help in the healing process for parents and guardians suffering from the loss of a child or children through grief counseling, sibling loss support groups, portraits, and scholarships.
The organization's mission is to make a difference in the lives of children affected by cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. we strive to improve the quality of life and well-being for them and their families by offering financial…
The mission of camp boggy creek is to foster a spirit of joy by creating a free, safe and medically-sound camp environment that enriches the lives of children with serious illnesses and their families. during our 8 week long summer…
Dedicated to spreading awareness and aid to those affected by pediatriccancer, with an emphasis on recurring brain cancers.our mission is to provide the entire family with help, hope, and care.
Organization - kids beating cancer, inc., (kbc) is a nonprofit, nonstock florida corporation formed in 1992. kbc provides access to life-saving treatments through the science of cellular therapy and advancing pediatric innovative, novel,…
Grant wishes to terminally ill children
To find an effective therapy, and eventually a cure, for bainbridge-ropers syndrome (brs).
Helping families and mentoring children with cystic fibrosis
To provide access to world-class health care for all children and support innovative programs focused on diagnosis, treatment and prevention of childhood illness.
Founded in 1984, camp sunshine provides retreats combining respite, recreation and support, while enabling hope and promoting joy, for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families through the various stages of a child's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gregg's Wings. 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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 63 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 NANAS RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds HANNAH'S HOME OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS RENEWAL COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds NEXTGEN FACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VISCARDI CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Marty Lyons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TEQUESTA FRIENDS OF PUBLIC SAFETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Shack Harris and Doug Williams Foundation ↗
- Who funds Newtown Parent Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Beaver County ↗
- Who funds THE FRANCES FOUNDATION FOR KIDS FIGHTING CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds BUTTERFLIES FROM JODIE INC ↗
- Who funds Adoption Connection PA ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Free Library of Beaver Falls ↗
- Who funds WEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds TKTYPE 1 INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HIGHLANDS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGER ATHLETICS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION 300 INC ↗
- Who funds NICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARBARAS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHASIN A DREAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION ↗
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 for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Clark Family Private Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Joe Namath Charitable 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.
- Barbaras House Inc — 17% of income from government
- Loxahatchee River Historical Society Inc — 6% of income from government
- Lighthouse Artcenter 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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