Boca Rio Foundation Inc
Boca Raton, FL · EIN 46-1258368. Reported 78 grants totalling $898,412 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Boca Rio Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 11% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 45% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $60,606. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Various Other Charities | $101,606 | 3 | 3 | 2023 | |
| Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc | Lake Worth, FL | $49,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| American Friends of Natal Inc | New York, NY | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Inc | Scarsdale, NY | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Ruth and Norman Rales Jewish Family Services Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $37,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Clinics Can Help Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $35,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Boca Helping Hands Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $32,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Roots and Wings Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $32,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Palm Beach Harvest Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sweet Dream Makers Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Caridad Center Inc | Boynton Beach, FL | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Gregorys Episcopal Church Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Faulk Center for Counseling Faulk Center | Boca Raton, FL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Habilitation for the Handicapped Habilitation for the Handicapped | Boca Raton, FL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hands and Feet Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Showering Love | Davie, FL | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Village of Hope Palm Beach County Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| College for Kids Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Milagro Foundation Milagro Foundation | Delray Beach, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boca School for Autism Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $13,750 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Gift of Life Marrow Registry Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Make Schools Safe Inc | Parkland, FL | $10,556 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Elizabeth H Faulk Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Fuller Center for Housing Inc | Americus, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Habilitation Center for the Handicapped Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Israel Magen Fund Inc | Montebello, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Milagro Foundation Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 4KIDS of South Florida Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Boca Raton Society for the Disabled Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Genesis Community Health Inc | Boynton Beach, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Case Management Organization Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 211 Palm Beach Treasure Coast Inc | Lantana, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Florida Family Care Alliance Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
26 of 41 (63%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 35 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 | $127,606 | $8,000 |
| 2022 | 13 | $153,500 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 18 | $193,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 16 | $198,250 | $10,000 |
| 2025 | 22 | $226,056 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
82% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
26 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 59 grants totalling $128,750 to Boca Rio Foundation Inc. That is 87% of the 30 funders we can see giving to it. Those 26 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
16 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donna and Steven Aptekar Family | Florida | $31,150 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Steven E Bernstein Family | Florida | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Olsten Family S Foundation | New York | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jarvis Foundation | Illinois | $9,600 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Gaels Baseball Foundation Inc | New York | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Kaplan Foundation | Illinois | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Andrew J & Joyce D Mandell Family | Connecticut | $5,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| David and Leslie Kantor Family | Florida | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kenneth Rosenberg Foundation | New York | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| David a Beckerman Foundation Inc | Connecticut | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 26.
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Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. 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 grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Boca Rio Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 22041 Boca Rio Road, Boca Raton, FL, 33433.
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