The Daniel E Ponton Foundation Inc
Palm Beach, FL · EIN 27-4394437. Reported 73 grants totalling $440,791 to 32 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Daniel E Ponton Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peggy Adams Animal Rescue | West Palm Beach, FL | $67,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Preservation Foundation | Palm Beach, FL | $65,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Town of Palm Beach United Way | Palm Beach, FL | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Compass | Lake Worth, FL | $41,110 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Palm Beach Police Foundation | Palm Beach, FL | $34,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Palm Beach Civic Association | Palm Beach, FL | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| The Priory in the USA of the Order of St John | Washington, DC | $19,531 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Foundation for AIDS Research | New York, NY | $19,200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Promise Fund | Palm Beach, FL | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Palm Beach Zoo | West Palm Beach, FL | $11,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| South Florida PBS | Boynton Beach, FL | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Red Sneakers for Oakley | Palm Beach, FL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Glades Academy Foundation Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $4,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Creative Education | West Palm Beach, FL | $3,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Red Shoes for Oakley | Palm Beach, FL | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Palm Beach Island Hospice Foundation | Palm Beach, FL | $1,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Belvoir Castle Foundation | Studio City, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Darbster Rescue Foundation | West Palm Beach, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope for Depression Research Foundation | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians & Jews | Palm Beach, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Safeguard Palm Beach | Palm Beach, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Lord's Place | West Palm Beach, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hsan IV Foundation | Narragansett, RI | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Palm Beach Island Cats Inc | Palm Beach, FL | $750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Breast Cancer Research Foundation | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Darbster Foundation | West Palm Beach, FL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jdrf Diabetes Foundation | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Miami Cancer Institute | Miami, FL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians and Jews | Palm Beach, FL | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Rosarian Academy | West Palm Beach, FL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
16 of 32 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 66%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
FUNDING FOR TO PATIENTS, RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITYHEALTH PROGRAMS - Preservation Foundation
SUPPORT FOR PRESERVATION OFARCHITECTURAL & CULTURALHERITAGE OF PALM BEACH. - Peggy Adams Animal Rescue
FUNDING A ROOM THAT HOUSES STRAYDOGS AND CATS - Compass
SUPPORT FOR LGBTQCOMMUNITY - Palm Beach Police Foundation
FUNDING FOR EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS,FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE& CRIME WATCH. - Town of Palm Beach United Way
SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMS RELATINGTO ADVOCACY, EDUCATION AND RESEARCHOF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 52 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | $52,086 | $2,500 |
| 2022 | 14 | $122,800 | $5,075 |
| 2023 | 15 | $79,840 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 17 | $89,090 | $3,090 |
| 2025 | 15 | $96,975 | $5,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
79% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Daniel E Ponton Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 211 Peruvian Ave, Palm Beach, FL, 33480. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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