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The Nancy Brinker 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.

$253k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$504kArts & Culture$384kPhilanthropy$233kCommunity Improvement$108kEducation$95kPublic Benefit$70kInternational$70kReligion$61kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $176k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$379k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA$50,000
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$26,000
PALM BEACH SYNAGOGUE$25,000
ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY$25,000
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$20,000
PALM BEACH ZOO$20,000
WHITEHOUSE HISTORICAL ASSN$10,000
TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY$10,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$10,000
GEORGE W BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIV$5,000
COX SCIENCE CENTER$5,000
INSTITUTE FOR SECURE AMERICA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $750 → 13%THIRD OPTION FDN: $3k → 6%COMPASS INC: $1k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CA
KY
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 37 repeat orgs$307k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
56

Total granted

$1.2M
$268k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+13%

Still filing today

65%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • PF
    PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $235k · revenue +283%
  • WH
    WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +329%
  • PB
    Palm Beach Civic Association Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • TK
    THE KENNEDY CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • US
    UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACH
    one grant, 2019 · $15k

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
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies

The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) is dedicated to enhancing the United States' image abroad through American Art. Founded as a public-private, non-partisan partnership in 1986, FAPE works with the U.S. Department…

Arts & Culture
8
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
9
Institute of International Bankers

The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…

10
The Institute for Law and Strategy

This institute, unlike many institutions concerned with law and public affairs, will not devote itself to advocacy or lobbying, to litigation, or to holding large-scale public events. rather, it will focus on collaboration with established…

Civil Rights
11
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
12
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation 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.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%4%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr9%28%35–55yr12%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%1%<5yr16%23%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr9%12%35–55yr12%38%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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%0/63
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/102,981

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

59 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 101 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
39/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION — $143,500 · OtherBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITIES FDN PALM BEACH & MARTIN CNTIES — $107,500 · OtherCOMMUNITIES FDN PALM BEACH & MARTIN CNTIESPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC — $60,325 · OtherPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INCTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC — $48,500 · OtherTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC+54 more — $395,300 · Other+54 morePROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC — $235,000 · HealthPROMISE FUND OF FLOR…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC — $15,000 · HealthFOUNDCARE INC — $10,750 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 · Health+7 more — $19,750 · Health+7 moreWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $70,000 · Arts & CultureWHITE HOUSE HISTO…NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $65,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF …Diplomacy Center Foundation — $55,000 · Arts & CultureDiplomacy Center …The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $22,500 · Arts & CultureThe Preservation …THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $16,750 · Arts & CultureTHE HISTORICAL SO…+7 more — $18,750 · Arts & Culture+7 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $95,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FED…Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTown of Pa…POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION — $16,000 · PhilanthropyPOINTS OF …COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …+3 more — $3,150 · PhilanthropyTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $45,000 · EducationPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC — $25,000 · Education+3 more — $7,000 · EducationATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $20,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $15,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $12,800 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $5,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL STUDENT HOUSE — $2,500 · International+1 more — $2,000 · InternationalPalm Beach Civic Association Inc — $55,000 · Community Improvement
Other$755,125Health$290,500Arts & Culture$248,000Philanthropy$149,650Education$77,000International$67,300Community Improvement$55,000

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 budgetPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC — $235,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $95,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDiplomacy Center Foundation — $55,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc — $55,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC — $48,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $22,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $16,750 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $16,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $12,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDCARE INC — $10,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA INC — $6,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for a Secure America Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDENT HOUSE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LINCOLN ACADEMY OF ILLINOIS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGlades Academy Foundation Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPASS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANLEY FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC
  • Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
  • Who funds Diplomacy Center Foundation
  • Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc
  • Who funds THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc
  • Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc
  • Who funds ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC
  • Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC
  • Who funds MORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC
  • Who funds POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
  • Who funds THE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FOUNDCARE 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.

The Mary Alice Fortin FoundationFL15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Soter Kay Foundation F/K/A Sarah Ross Soter Foundation · The Thomas C Quick Charitable Trust U/A December 29 1986 · Eric Javits Family Foundation · Earle I Mack Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Nancy Brinker 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 140%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida6% of income from government
  • Foundcare Inc6% of income from government
  • Center for Creative Education2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc1% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
12report 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, FY2025

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.

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 101 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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