· Private foundation
The Stephen E Myers 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| PALM BEACH ZOO & CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| PALM BEACH POLICE & FIRE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $10,000 |
| REFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES | $10,000 |
| RETRAIN TO WALK | $10,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 38% of The Stephen E Myers 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. Read by recipient address, 49% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 22% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +105% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2024 · $548k · revenue +29%
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITY2× · 2019–2021 · $275k · revenue +9%
- TPThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $162k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $103k
- PBPALM BEACH ZOO & CONVERVATION SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $67k
- EBERIC BROWN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +288% · 33% of their budget
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.
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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 37 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) — 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 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.
31 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. 31 of the 41 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 VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ERIC BROWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seal Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE CAROLINAS INC ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club ↗
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.
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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 Stephen E Myers 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.
- Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor 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.