· Private foundation
Ventus Charitable 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+6 grants · $8.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PBC | $5,935,382 |
| NEOPHILANTHROPY | $1,250,000 |
| PROTEUS FUND | $650,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $500,000 |
| STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT | $250,000 |
| TIDES CENTER - STATE VOICES FLORIDA | $250,000 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHWEST CENTRAL FLORIDA | $100,000 |
| PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT (POGO) | $100,000 |
| FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH EAST AND NORTH FLORIDA | $100,000 |
| YMCA | $100,000 |
| ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% 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 10% of Ventus Charitable 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.
33 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 12 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; $1.1M 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
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +21% · 53% of their budget
NEO Philanthropy Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +28%
FLORIDA PHILANTHROPIC NETWORK INC4× · 2020–2024 · $325k · revenue +244%
Funded once
- WAWOODLAND ARBORETUM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +78% · 39% of their budget
- CFCOMMUNITY FUONDATION OF PB & MARTIN COUNTIESone grant, 2020 · $100k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF PB & MARTIN COUNTIESone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
Equality florida institute is the educational arm of the largest civil rights organization in florida dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Florida rising, inc. is an independent political organization bringing together black and brown communities to seize power and govern to advance social, economic and racial justice across florida.
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
Equality florida action is the advocacy arm of the largest civil rights organization working to secure full equality for florida's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq) community.(continued on schedule o)we work to pass…
Miami freedom project for democracy (mfp for democracy), a non-partisan 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging south florida's latino and immigrant communities through comprehensive civic education, leadership training, and…
To focuses on public education and advocacy to generate public awareness of programs and services available to immigrants in Florida.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Public agenda strengthens american democracy by connecting research to action enabling people and institutions to pursue changes that make a difference. we amplify the voices of americans and help communities discover and build on common…
The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…
Miami-dade innovation authority bridges the gap between private innovators and the public sector to fast track innovation that improves quality of life for miamians.
The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Philanthropic Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Freedom to Read Project 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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 80 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA PHILANTHROPIC NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Nonprofit Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL GROUND EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds IFWHENHOW ↗
- Who funds NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Fair Elections Center ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MANATEE LAGOON INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY INNOVATORS INC ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING SHARED SERVICES ALLIANCE 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 · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Florida Philanthropic Network Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · Freedom Together Foundation
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 Ventus Charitable 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
- Florida Nonprofit Alliance 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.