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The Toppel Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Toppel Family 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.

$2k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$805kArts & Culture$131kHealth$15kReligion$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kYouth Development$2k
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,350
Median grant
1
States reached
$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE$1,350
FAU FOUNDATION INC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $51k → 14%FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE: $1k → 14%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $400k → 15%MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $40k → 14%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $200k → 15%MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $15k → 14%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS: $5k → 13%HOSPICE BY THE SEA: $5k → 11%GILDA'S CLUB SOUTH FLORIDA: $3k → 13%FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE: $1k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION: $5k → 11%BEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION: $5k → 11%BEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%LYNN UNIVERSITY: $103k → 11%LYNN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%FAU FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%FAU FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%CENTRE FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$952k · 9 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$952k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+152%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    University of Miami
    2× · 2017–2019 · $600k · revenue +96%
  • LU
    LYNN UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $203k · revenue +46%
  • MA
    MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST
    3× · 2017–2019 · $106k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTRE FOR THE ARTS
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • HB
    Hospice by the Sea Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +9%
  • GC
    GILDA'S CLUB OF SOUTH FLORIDA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +152%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Miami
—
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
4
Florida Southern College

Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…

Education
5
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
6
Barry University Inc

Barry university is a catholic institution of higher education founded by the adrian dominican sisters. with a liberal arts tradition, barry university is a scholarly community committed to the highest academic standards in undergraduate,…

Education
7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
Nova Southeastern University Inc

The mission of Nova Southeastern University-a selective, doctoral research university-is to deliver academic programs in a dynamic, innovative environment. We foster academic excellence, leadership, integrity (continued on Schedule O) and…

Education
10
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
11
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
12
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Miami: $600,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $202,500 · EducationLYNN UNIVERSITY INC+2 more: $4,000 · EducationMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $106,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ACADEM…BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS: $20,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION: $10,000 · OtherCENTRE FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 · OtherHospice by the Sea Inc: $5,000 · OtherFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE: $2,700 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $7,000 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $3,000 · Health
Education$806,500Arts & Culture$106,000Other$42,700Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Miami: $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $202,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $106,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHospice by the Sea Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FOOT FORWARD FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Toppel Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Toppel Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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