· Private foundation
Wendy and Douglas Topkis Charitable Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of WENDY AND DOUGLAS TOPKIS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PB | $50,150 |
| THE SOCIETY OF FOUR ARTS | $12,800 |
| TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY | $11,515 |
| THE INNOVATE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM (AFMDA) | $7,200 |
| HOW HEARING THE OVARIAN CANCER WHISPER | $5,650 |
| RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| RAYMOND KRAVIS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $3,500 |
| STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE | $3,044 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM | $2,588 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- TOTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue +30%
- RCRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +6%
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +21%
Funded once
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%- PAPENNSYLVANIA ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGEone grant, 2024 · $3k
- TATAMAQUA AREA COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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 reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Magen David Adom and the most unlike its peers is Brecker-Metal Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 36 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 Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DEVILS YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAMAQUA AREA COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Brecker-Metal Foundation INC ↗
- Who funds KAVOD ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds GETINCLUDED INC ↗
- Who funds AKTIV AGAINST CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds TAMID ISRAEL INVESTMENT GROUP LTD ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wendy and Douglas Topkis 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.
- University of Miami — 5% 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.