· Private foundation
The Max Ida Fred & Marji Strauss 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.
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 $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $18,575 |
| Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus | $15,700 |
| CAMP RAMAH | $11,570 |
| YOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,100 |
| MEROM ISRAEL PARDES KATZ | $6,000 |
| CENTER AHAVAT ISRAEL | $5,500 |
| William N DeBerry Elementary School | $2,000 |
| JAFCO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| POSNACK SCHOOL FUND | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY17–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +121% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 23 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- YMYOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue ×44
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SOUTH BROWARD INC4× · 2019–2023 · $16k · revenue +83%
- JCJAFCO Children's Foundation Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2021–2022 · $5k
- PSPOTTENGER SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $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.
Families first of palm beach county, through innovative programs, promotes generational change by addressing families emotional, physical, and social well-being.
To surround students at risk of dropping out with caring adults embedded in schools who provide a community of support with safe places to learn and grow, a focus on graduation to ensure successful futures with a marketable skills, and…
Provide services and programs for women, teens, children, and families of miami-dade county in focusing our mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
The mission of the ljd jewish family & community services, inc. is to strengthen the entire community by providing family and individual social services in the jewish tradition of helping people help themselves.
To cultivate financial resources dedicated to building stronger families and stronger communities through the operations and programs of families first. contributing to the foundation is an investment in a safe, healthy and sustainable…
Achieve miami, inc. is a florida 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering a transformational educational ecosystem in miami. in partnership with leaders across the public and private sectors, achieve miami designs and…
Miami music project uses music as an instrument for social transformation, empowering children to acquire values and achieve their full potential, positively affecting their society through the study and performance of music. our vision is…
Our mission is to strengthen children and families through innovative education, supportive programming and community engagement. our vision is for every child and family to reach their full potential.
To deliver quality and compassionate behavioral health services to individuals and families all the time through a trauma informed care philosophy and approach.
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
Provide crisis intervention for youths.
To unlock the potential of at-risk children and families by providing compassionate and effective services that create opportunities for success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals South Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aventura Waterways K8 Ptsa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 67 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.
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 Miami Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Max Ida Fred & Marji Strauss 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.
- Jewish Community Centers of South Broward Inc — 8% of income from government
- Easter Seals South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Young Musicians Unite 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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