· Private foundation
The Sexton Family 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 $10k30 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $800k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS | $75,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $65,000 |
| BLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC | $60,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ASN FOUNDATION FOR KIDNEY RESEARCH | $40,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY | $30,000 |
| LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC | $30,000 |
| CURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS | $30,000 |
| CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Sexton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
116 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 8 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- TFTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +113%
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $298k · revenue +32%
- BSBLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $283k · revenue +317%
Funded once
- TSTHE SWEDISH-AMERICAN FUND INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -100%
- CSCOOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +37%
- BBBISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +235%
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.
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.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Reef environmental education foundation (reef) was established as a nonprofit organization in 1990. reef conserves marine environments worldwide. our mission is to protect biodiversity and ocean life by actively engaging and inspiring the…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian River Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Swedish-American Fund Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
117 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. 117 of the 144 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 THE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds CURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER ↗
- Who funds Special Operations Fund ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS ↗
- Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Florida Keys Inc ↗
- Who funds ASN Foundation for Kidney Research ↗
- Who funds THE SWEDISH-AMERICAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS LAND & SEA TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC ↗
- Who funds CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Reef Relief Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEACETREES VIETNAM ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PIGEON KEY 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: The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Edward B and Joan T Knight Foundati Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Florida Keys · Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc · The Carwill Foundation · The John's Island Foundation Inc · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Welsh Family Foundation Inc · The Berghorst 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 Sexton 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.
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
- Monroe Association for Retarded Citizens Inc — 4% of income from government
- Hibiscus Children's Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I — 1% of income from government
- Dolphin Research Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Monroe Council of the Arts Corporation — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
- Whole Family Health Center 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.