· Private foundation
The Mary Alice Fortin 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k78 grants · $339k
- $10k–50k140 grants · $2.5M
- $50k–250k32 grants · $3.2M
- $250k+15 grants · $8.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Billings Clinic Foundation | $2,500,000 |
| Duke University - Bass Connections | $1,060,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County | $760,000 |
| Busch Wildlife Sanctuary | $750,000 |
| St Vincent Healthcare Foundation | $540,000 |
| Hanley Foundation - Capital Campaign | $400,000 |
| The Lord's Place | $386,500 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach | $360,000 |
| US Olympic & Paralympic Foundation | $325,000 |
| Town of Palm Beach United Way | $323,000 |
| Home Safe | $319,000 |
| Cox Science Center and Aquarium | $270,000 |
| Friends of Fisher House | $260,000 |
| Junior Achievement of the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast | $250,000 |
| Montana Rescue Mission | $250,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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 +20% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
428 repeat relationships — 206 still active in FY2024, 222 since wound down; 57 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- BCBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +15%
- TLTHE LORD'S PLACE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +14%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC3× · 2022–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +41%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Floridaone grant, 2019 · $586k
DUKE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $581k · revenue +3%- HCHANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue +273%
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.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
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Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The area agency on aging of palm beach/treasure coast is a private, non-profit, regional agency whose mission is to advocate, plan and promote the independence, dignity, health and well-being of seniors and their caregivers in a manner…
Childnet's mission is to protect broward and palm beach counties' abused, abandoned and neglected children, to ensure their safety and to promptly provide them with a permanent, loving home.
Catholic palliative care services, inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of catholic hospice, inc. and under the sponsorship of the archdiocese of miami, provides responsive end-of-life care to patients and families in broward and dade…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Speak Up for Kids of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hanley 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
248 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. 248 of the 621 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds The Children's Place at Home Safe Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLY GROUND SHELTER FOR HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds HANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION 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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · Ibis Charities Foundation Inc · Children's Healthcare Charity Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Ballenisles Charities Foundation Inc · Montana Community 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 Mary Alice Fortin 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.
- Ywca of Palm Beach County — 72% of income from government
- Vita Nova Inc — 42% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- 211 Palm BeachTreasure Coast Inc — 17% of income from government
- Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc — 15% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc — 12% of income from government
- Grandmas Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc — 10% of income from government
- Center for Child Counseling Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Center for Trauma Counseling Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- Wayside House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Jack the Bike Man Inc — 0% of income from government
- Caridad Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Day Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Blair Academy — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
- TrustBridge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs 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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