· Private foundation
The William a Meyer 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 $10k27 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $111k
- $250k+1 grant · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $325,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $110,667 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYANNUAL LAW FUND | $10,000 |
| THE FUND FOR WEST PALM BEACH POLICE | $10,000 |
| COX SCIENCE CENTER & AQUARIUM | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY | $10,000 |
| PALM BEACH PHILANTHROPY TANK | $6,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $6,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES | $5,000 |
| PALM BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| SUITS FOR SENIORS | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE JUDEA | $3,600 |
| TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY | $3,334 |
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 (FY17–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +90% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- RFRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +72%
- WIWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +51%
- TFThe Fund for West Palm Beach Police Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $42k · revenue +421%
Funded once
- CACANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +18%
- TTTHE TREE OF LIFE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +243%
- MJMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INCone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +2%
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.
The foundation is the nexus of palm beach county's public schools, the private sector, and the community. it facilitates student achievement by supporting high quality public education through partnership, grants, events and public…
Palm Health Foundation invests in bold, community-led solutions that improve health and well-being in Palm Beach County. (Continued on Schedule O)Established in 2001 from the sale of Good Samaritan and St. Mary's hospitals, the Foundation…
The Forum Club of the Palm Beaches educates and informs the community's business, political and social interests and promotes a more active participation by all citizens in the democratic process by inviting students and the…
Palm beach island hospice foundation was established exclusively to support the programs, services and activities which further comprehensive hospice care in palm beach county, florida through its fundraising efforts.
The mission of the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches is to create and promote a favorable business climate in the Palm Beaches. This is accomplished by energetically representing the collective interests of business in the private…
See schedule othe mission of ballenisles charities foundation is to solicit, collect, administer, and distribute funds for charitable purposes as described in the articles of incorporation of the corporation, including making distributions…
The south palm beach county foundation, inc. ("spbcf") is a community foundation dedicated to building legacies in south palm beach county and beyond.
The chamber is organized for the purpose of advancing the economic, professional, cultural, educational and civic welfare of miami beach and the area surrounding miami beach, florida. the chamber is committed to encouraging the growth of…
The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.
The palm beach jewish community campus corporation owns and maintains property for the purpose of providing educational, cultural, recreational, and social welfare programming for the local community.
The foundation is responsible for providing funding and support to the boys & girls club of palm beach county so the club can provide programs and services to the children of palm beach county.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
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 Chelsea Morrison Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 65 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 RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds The Fund for West Palm Beach Police Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians and Jews Inc ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of the Palm Beaches & Treasure Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SUITS FOR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Jack The Bike Man Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds LEEDS FOUNDATION PBC INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLINICS CAN HELP INC ↗
- Who funds THE TREE OF LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Mestal Foundation · Jm Rubin Foundation Inc · Children's Healthcare Charity Inc · Eric Friedheim Foundation Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · The Liman Foundation · The Mirasol 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 William a Meyer 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.
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
- Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Armory Art Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Jack the Bike Man 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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