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4roots Foundation Inc

The purpose of 4roots foundation, inc.

$249k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$535kHuman Services$190kHealth$126kPhilanthropy$58kEducation$58kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kCrime & Legal$13kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $229,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $248,588 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,588 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
$8,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Orlando After School All Stars$120,000
United Cerebral Palsy of Central Florida Inc$15,000
Victory Cup Initiative Inc$15,000
Winter Park Day Nursery Inc$10,000
Harbor House of Central Florida Inc$8,000
Foundation for Foster Children Inc$8,000
amily Promise of Greater Orlando Inc$8,000
Lovely Project Inc$8,000
United Against Poverty Inc (Up Orlando Center)$8,000
Christian Service Center for Central Florida Inc$8,000
Mike Evans Family Foundation$7,500
Orlando Youth Alliance Inc$7,500
Idignity Inc$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BABY DJ: $8k → 13%Idignity Inc: $6k → 13%FREEDOM RIDE: $10k → 13%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $10k → 13%Christian Service Center for Central Florida Inc: $8k → 13%SPECIAL HEARTS FARM: $10k → 13%SPECIAL HEARTS FARM: $8k → 13%THE FAINE HOUSE INC: $10k → 13%IDIGNITY: $13k → 13%Winter Park Day Nursery Inc: $10k → 13%WINTER PARK DAY NURSERY INC: $10k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $10k → 13%WINTER PARK DAY NURSERY INC: $10k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC: $10k → 13%WINTER PARK DAY NURSERY INC: $10k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC: $8k → 13%amily Promise of Greater Orlando Inc: $8k → 13%Foundation for Foster Children Inc: $8k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC: $7k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 18 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
16

Total granted

$1.1M
$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+14%

Still filing today

94%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OA
    Orlando After School All Stars Inc
    5× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +50%
  • FL
    FLORIDA LEADERSHIP VENTURE
    2× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +107%
  • UC
    UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • DB
    DERRICK BROOKS CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +1%
  • CO
    City of Kissimmee
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • TM
    TALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +53%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Florida's Children First Inc

Organization mission: florida's children first is a non-profit, nonpartisan, independent advocacy organization committed to protecting and advancing the rights of children and youth impacted by the child welfare, juvenile justice, and…

Human Services
2
Florida Youth Foundation Inc

To encourage the collaboration among business people, community members, parents, youths of florida, and the florida juvenile justice system to promote education and public safety through effective prevention, intervention, and treatment…

Crime & Legal
3
Friends of the Children- Tampa Bay Inc

Friends of the children tampa bay has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Human Services
4
Orlando Center for Justice

Orlando Center for Justice, Inc.s mission is to bridge the access to justice gap in Florida for newcomers by helping these underserved communities navigate the legal system through education and innovation. We also walk alongside them,…

Crime & Legal
5
Florida Network of Children's Advocacy Centers Inc

To improve florida's response to child abuse by supporting the development, growth and continuation of the children's advocacy centers around florida.

Human Services
6
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…

Human Services
7
Central Florida Childrens Home

To provide homes for disadvantaged children.

Human Services
8
Feeding Dreams Inc

The mission of Feeding Dreams to combat childhood hunger and malnutrition that affect one in five children in Florida. Through grants, fundraising efforts, and school partnerships, we delivered 2.5 million highly nutritious meals to…

Food & Nutrition
9
Central Florida Kidney Centers Inc

Our mission is to provide exceptional dialysis care and services to individuals with end-stage kidney disease throughout central florida. we are dedicated to expanding access to treatment and ensuring all those in need receive quality…

Health
10
Florida Mentoring Network Inc

Florida mentoring network empowers young people ages 13 to 25 through a proven process of growth, connection, and skill building. we believe in "trusting the process"a journey where consistent mentoring, meaningful relationships, and…

Education
11
Fostering Hope Florida Inc

The mission of fostering hope florida is to partner with the community in creating a compassionate system of foster care that honors and protects the rights of children.

Human Services
12
The Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida Inc

To identify, fund, and evaluate health, education, and other social service programs.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Foster Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is KIDZ1STFUND Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Orlando After School All Stars Inc: $540,000 · Recreation & SportsOrlando After School All Stars IncWINTER PARK DAY NURSERY INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesWINTER PARK DAY…FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC: $32,668 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR …IDIGNITY INC: $18,500 · Human ServicesIDIGNITY INCFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE …CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN SERVI…SPECIAL HEARTS FARM INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesSPECIAL HEARTS …THE FAINE HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAINE HOUSE…FREEDOM RIDE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RIDE IN…BABY DJ: $7,500 · Human ServicesCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $30,000 · OtherCOALITION FO…Harbor House of Central Florida Inc: $28,000 · OtherHarbor House…CENTRAL FLORIDA MIRACLE LEAGUE INC: $20,000 · OtherCENTRAL FLOR…UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $18,000 · OtherUNITED AGAIN…City of Kissimmee: $15,000 · OtherCity of Kiss…THE GRENADIER BOOSTER CLUB INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE GRENADIE…SOUTHERN GLAZER WINE AND SPIRITS: $7,500 · OtherBOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THE FLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & BLIND: $7,500 · OtherBROOKE DAVIS ANGEL FUND INCORPORATED: $7,500 · OtherUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $75,000 · HealthUNITED CEREB…AdventHealth Foundation Inc: $34,086 · HealthAdventHealth…CANNONBALL KIDS' CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · HealthCANNONBALL K…TALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE INC: $10,719 · HealthTALLAHASSEE …KIDZ1STFUND INC: $5,500 · HealthFLORIDA LEADERSHIP VENTURE: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentFLORIDA LEA…THE LOVELY PROJECT INC: $28,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LOVELY …DERRICK BROOKS CHARITIES INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentDERRICK BRO…Victory Cup Initiative Inc: $45,000 · PhilanthropyVictory C…Give Hope Foundation Inc: $28,000 · PhilanthropyGive Hope…THE CANTERBURY SCHOOL OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CANTE…306 FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy306 FOUND…MIKE EVANS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyMIKE EVAN…The Florida State University Foundation Inc: $10,000 · EducationBroward Education Foundation Inc: $10,000 · EducationORLANDO YOUTH ALLIANCE INC: $7,500 · EducationORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Recreation & Sports$540,000Human Services$172,168Other$143,500Health$141,305Youth Development$123,000Philanthropy$100,500Education$27,500Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOrlando After School All Stars Inc: $540,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetFLORIDA LEADERSHIP VENTURE: $80,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVictory Cup Initiative Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetWINTER PARK DAY NURSERY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAdventHealth Foundation Inc: $34,086 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC: $32,668 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHarbor House of Central Florida Inc: $28,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGive Hope Foundation Inc: $28,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTHE LOVELY PROJECT INC: $28,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetIDIGNITY INC: $18,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL HEARTS FARM INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCANNONBALL KIDS' CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDERRICK BROOKS CHARITIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE INC: $10,719 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANTERBURY SCHOOL OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE FAINE HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroward Education Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget306 FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFREEDOM RIDE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORLANDO YOUTH ALLIANCE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBABY DJ: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKIDZ1STFUND INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Dr P Phillips Fou…Central Florida Found…Magruder Chesley G Fd…Universal Orlando Fou…Adventist Health Syst…Orlando Health IncBailes Family Foundat…Westgate Resorts Foun…Heart of Florida Unit…The Galloway Foundati…The Lee FoundationElizabeth Morse Geniu…
The Dr P Phillips FoundationFL30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Central Florida Foundation · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Adventist Health SystemSunbelt Inc · Orlando Health Inc · Bailes Family Foundation Inc · Westgate Resorts Foundation Inc F/K/A Westgate Foundation Inc · Heart of Florida United Way Inc · The Galloway Foundation · The Lee Foundation · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 4roots Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 4roots Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Harbor House of Central Florida Inc: 24% of income from government
  • United Cerebral Palsy of Central Florida Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Idignity Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Orlando Science Centerinc: 4% of income from government
  • Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Faine House Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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