· Private foundation
Van Buren Family Foundation Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $2,500 |
| PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH | $2,500 |
| PALM BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| BARNEGAT LIGHT FIRST AID SQUAD | $2,000 |
| HIGH POINT VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $2,000 |
| SURF CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| BARNEGAT LIGHT VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $2,000 |
| NEW JERSEY MARITIME MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER | $1,500 |
| GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION | $1,500 |
| SAVE BARNEGAT BAY | $1,500 |
| SAVE LONG BEACH ISLAND INC | $1,500 |
| BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE | $1,500 |
| SAINT FRANCIS FOOD PANTRY | $1,500 |
| FLAGLER MUSEUM | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TSThe Society of the Four Arts Inc4× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +989%
- PBPalm Beach Civic Association Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +115%
- HPHIGH POINT VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- MGMS GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRone grant, 2017 · $214k
- SFSt Francis Food Pantryone grant, 2022 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
To provide fire protection services
The mutual protection and benefit of all its members.
Promote educational opportunities and events for our local communities that highlight benefits of Palm Beach county agriculture regarding food security, economic impacts adn environmental stewardship.
The Organization provides a forum for local member union firefighters to address their labor and collective bargaining issues. Political candidates and issues affecting wages, benefits, and working conditions are discussed, addressed, and…
South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
Peconic Public Broadcasting is a public FM radio station located in Southampton, New York. The station services Long Island and coastal Connecticut and offers listeners both national and local programs.
Plainview hospital is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
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…
To work for the betterment of Agriculture and private property rights within Nassau County.
Volunteer Fire Department
Phelps memorial hospital association ("pmha") is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…
North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Palm Beach Civic Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cumberland University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 27 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 Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SAVE LONG BEACH ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Barnegat Light First Aid Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians and Jews Inc ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire 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.
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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 Van Buren Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Hope Charities Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission 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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