· Private foundation
The Mackowski Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SOUND WALL MUSIC INITIATIVE | $30,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL | $6,700 |
| CENTER FOR A NEW AMERICAN SECURITY | $2,500 |
| GARDEN CLUB OF JACKSONVILLE | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- SMSOUNDWALL MUSIC INITIATIVE4× · 2022–2025 · $83k · revenue +74%
- FBFOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC6× · 2017–2023 · $65k · revenue +46%
- DEDE ETTE HOLDEN CUMMER MUSEUM FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- WGWOMEN'S GIVING ALLIANCEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- FRFOOD RUNNERSone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -99%
- AKAUBURN KNIGHTS ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
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 mission of the Jacksonville Public Library Foundation is to provide private support and public visibility for the Jacksonville Public Library.
To present artistically excellent classical and other orchestral performances for the enjoyment, education and enrichment of an ever-increasing diverse audience, while maintaining fiscal integrity.
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
To empower the community through gardens, fresh food access, and eduction. instead of just growing food and giving it away, we also are teaching young people how to grow food, teaching them why fresh food is important for them and their…
Feeding Northeast Florida works to permanently end hunger in Northeast Florida by providing nutritious foods and other essential goods to people facing hunger, by addressing food insecurity, poverty and poor health through education and…
In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…
Community greening envisions an engaged community creating sustainable green spaces and a vibrant tree canopy to equitably strengthen our environment, economy, society and health.community greening is a community-based organization that…
The james beard foundation believes in a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable independent restaurant industry that stands as a cornerstone of american culture, community, and economy - and drives towards a better food system. the james…
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
To improve the business climate, promote economic development, and enhance the quality of life in the jacksonville area. the jacksonville area chamber of commerce encourages businesses by building relationships to create a vibrant tomorrow.
Florida state parks foundation preserves, protects, sustains and grows florida state parks.
The mission of the jenkins arboretum & gardens is to preserve natural, tranquil woodlands for community enjoyment, to showcase native plants and a world class collection of rhododendrons and azaleas, and to promote environmental…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Jim and Tabitha Furyk 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 34 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 SOUNDWALL MUSIC INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds DE ETTE HOLDEN CUMMER MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIVIC SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNS RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OLDTIME FIDDLERS INC ↗
- Who funds Garden Club of Jacksonville Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENSCAPE OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JIM AND TABITHA FURYK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD RUNNERS ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds 904WARD INC ↗
- Who funds Center for a New American Security Inc ↗
- Who funds CIVIC ORCHESTRA OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL PARK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FILTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
- Who funds DBWPC INC ↗
- Who funds TIMUCUAN PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds READ USA INC ↗
- Who funds Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry I 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · The Haskell Foundation · The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust · Southern Baptist Hospital of Florida Inc · Csx Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Mackowski 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.
- Dbwpc Inc — 10% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- Greenscape of Jacksonville Inc — 2% of income from government
- Read Usa Inc — 1% of income from government
- Garden Club of Jacksonville 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.