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The John a & Elizabeth F Taylor Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$780k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$169k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Environment$1.2MRecreation & Sports$803kAnimals$509kEducation$480kScience & Tech$435kCivil Rights$50kArts & Culture$48kCommunity Improvement$12kOther$597k
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $367k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $361k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC$168,750
PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC$125,000
CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC$67,097
LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER INC$49,875
SURFRIDER FOUNDATION$47,097
BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC$41,000
I CARE CORPORATION$35,750
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION$34,099
BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC$33,000
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST$29,875
FLORIDA AQUARIUM INC$25,000
WILD OCEANS INC$22,097
GUY HARVEY OCEAN FUND INC$20,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LAB$19,097
CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $47k → 10%NEW YORK HARBOR FOUNDATION INC: $69k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $60k → 6%CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $67k → 11%THE NATURE CONSERVATORY: $73k → 11%LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $155k → 11%FLORIDA AQUARIUM INC: $35k → 13%BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC: $42k → 13%OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOC INC INDIAN RIVER LAGOON: $30k → 13%INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $30k → 15%CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC: $53k → 19%DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LAB: $31k → 12%SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $44k → 10%BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $40k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $56k → 6%CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $50k → 11%LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $98k → 11%CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC: $169k → 13%FLORIDA AQUARIUM INC: $27k → 13%BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC: $41k → 13%CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC: $26k → 19%DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LAB: $30k → 12%SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $42k → 10%BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $38k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $35k → 6%CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $43k → 11%LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $50k → 11%CLEAN WATER COALITION OF INDIAN RIVER CTY: $25k → 12%BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 13%CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC: $25k → 19%DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LAB: $25k → 12%SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $33k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $34k → 6%CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $37k → 11%CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC: $114k → 13%I CARE CORPORATION: $36k → 13%BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 13%THE OCEAN FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $29k → 6%LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $40k → 11%BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $29k → 6%LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $29k → 11%SEALEGACY FOUNDATION: $28k → 11%LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER INC: $27k → 11%KIBBLEZ OF LOVE: $50k → 11%KIBBLEZ OF LOVE: $35k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 27 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
13

Total granted

$3.9M
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+9%

Still filing today

93%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsScience & TechCivil RightsOther

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

  • PB
    PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $798k · revenue +51% · 26% of their budget
  • CF
    CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $407k · revenue ×23
  • LM
    LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $398k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NATURE CONSERVATORY
    one grant, 2023 · $73k
  • SF
    SeaLegacy Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue -46%
  • FR
    FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ocean Alliance Project

Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration

Science & Tech
2
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
3
Clean Reefs
Environment
4
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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5
Marine Megafauna Foundation

Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions

International
6
Marine Resources Council of East Florida Inc

The mission of the marine resources council (mrc) is to maintain and enhance the quality of marine systems for the economic, recreational, aesthetic, and environmental use for the people of florida

Environment
7
Ocean First Institute

The mission of Ocean First Institute is ocean conservation through research and education. We work to deepen the natural connection between people and the ocean. We educate and empower people to understand the ocean is our life support…

Education
8
The Coral Reef Alliance

Our research has demonstrated that corals can adapt to the effects of environmental stressors if immediate threats are reduced and if we protect healthy, ecologically connected networks of reefs.

Environment
9
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
10
Reef Check Foundation

Leading Citizen scientists to promote stewardship of sustainable reef communities worldwide.

Environment
11
Global Coralition Inc

To scale coral reef restoration through a holistic model of art, science and community. we design marine regeneration hubs that consist of sculptural coral gardens and land-based coral farms. we aim to target local impacts on reefs while…

Environment
12
Florida Wildlife Federation

To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Captains for Clean Water Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baltimore Museum of Art. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsLocal Food System Organizat…Immigrant Worker SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Animal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%7%<5yr16%13%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr9%19%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%1%<5yr16%9%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr15%45%20–35yr9%27%35–55yr12%5%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/103,005

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
23/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC — $406,947 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION FLORIDA INCTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $199,324 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATIONCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC — $197,294 · EnvironmentCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC — $148,375 · Environment1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INCICARE CORPORATION — $47,291 · Environment+8 more — $196,513 · Environment+8 morePALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC — $798,000 · Recreation & SportsPALM BEACH COUNTY FISH…+1 more — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsWILD OCEANS INC — $152,296 · OtherWILD OCEANS INCDUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LAB — $136,755 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY MA…INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOC SCHOLARSHIP FUND C/O JOAN VERNON — $114,875 · OtherINTERNATIONAL WOME…THE NATURE CONSERVATORY — $72,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERV…OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOC INC INDIAN RIVER LAGOON — $67,753 · OtherOCEAN RESEARCH & C…SeaLegacy Foundation Inc — $28,000 · OtherGUMBO LIMBO COASTAL STEWARDS INC — $42,656 · OtherGUMBO LIMBO COASTA…+4 more — $42,000 · Other+4 moreTHE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC — $187,541 · AnimalsTHE BILLFISH …The Florida Aquarium Inc — $144,500 · AnimalsThe Florida A…KIBBLEZ OF LOVE INC — $108,572 · AnimalsKIBBLEZ OF LO…SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC — $31,000 · AnimalsSAVE THE MANA…+4 more — $37,000 · Animals+4 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $242,328 · EducationTHE UNIVERSIT…BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC — $209,072 · EducationBILLION OYSTE…+3 more — $29,097 · Education+3 moreLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC — $398,416 · Science & TechLOGGERHEAD …Ocean Rescue Alliance Inc — $36,753 · Science & TechOcean Rescu…VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $25,000 · Civil Rights
Environment$1,195,744Recreation & Sports$803,000Other$656,835Animals$508,613Education$480,497Science & Tech$435,169Civil Rights$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC — $798,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetCONSERVATION FLORIDA INC — $406,947 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC — $398,416 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $242,328 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC — $209,072 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $199,324 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC — $197,294 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetTHE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC — $187,541 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetWILD OCEANS INC — $152,296 over 6y, 6.5% of budget1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC — $148,375 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetThe Florida Aquarium Inc — $144,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOC SCHOLARSHIP FUND C/O JOAN VERNON — $114,875 over 6y, 28% of budgetKIBBLEZ OF LOVE INC — $108,572 over 5y, 18% of budgetICARE CORPORATION — $47,291 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetGUMBO LIMBO COASTAL STEWARDS INC — $42,656 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation — $39,097 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOcean Rescue Alliance Inc — $36,753 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCLEAN WATER COALITION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — $35,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetGUY HARVEY OCEAN FUND INC — $31,541 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC — $31,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSeaLegacy Foundation Inc — $28,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHEN WE ALL VOTE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCITIZENS FOR A BETTER SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCivic Nation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEASHARE — $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA I — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARK ALLIES — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetORCA CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $9,097 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Area Bicyclist Association — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Batchelor Foundat…Community Foundation …Verizon FoundationNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…
The Batchelor Foundation IncFL13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 John a & Elizabeth F Taylor Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
  • Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I — 1% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Florida Aquarium Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to The John a & Elizabeth F Taylor Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The John a & Elizabeth F Taylor Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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