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A Friends Foundation Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

A Friends Foundation Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$874k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.4MYouth Development$714kScience & Tech$627kHuman Services$526kHealth$462kEnvironment$182kFood & Nutrition$152kPublic Safety & Disaster$122kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $570k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $235k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PUERTO RICO$80,000
INSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA$55,000
WARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT$50,000
RABUN GAPNACOOCHEE SCHOOL$50,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$40,000
PALM LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$32,000
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$30,000
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PLATEAU$25,000
HIGHLANDS BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATION$25,000
ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER$25,000
GRACE MEDICAL HOME$20,000
FISHES & LOAVES FOOD$20,000
HAMPTON SCHOOLS INC$20,000
HAMPTON PRESCHOOL & EARLY LEARNING CENTE$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $94k) 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%INFANTS IN NEED: $3k → 15%GEORGIA MOUNTAINS YMCA: $1k → 12%HOPE HEALS: $10k → 13%GEORGIA MOUNTAINS YMCA: $1k → 12%HOPE HEALS: $10k → 13%YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY: $5k → 12%HOPE HEALS: $10k → 13%HOPE HEALS: $5k → 13%HOPE HEALS: $5k → 13%HOPE HEALS: $5k → 13%VISION CASHIERS INC: $13k → 18%CENTRAL FLORIDA YMCA FOUNDATION INC: $12k → 13%CENTRAL FLORIDA YMCA FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 13%NATIONAL HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 61 repeat orgs$381k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
25

Total granted

$4.4M
$262k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+17%

Still filing today

67%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • OS
    ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $625k · revenue +91%
  • IN
    INSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $295k · revenue +99%
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $132k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • JC
    Jackson County Schools
    one grant, 2020 · $38k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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 Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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2
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
3
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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4
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc

Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…

Health
5
Royal Palm Academy Inc

The mission of royal palm academy is to partner with families to provide an education of rich academics with catholic formation. we teach the mind, educate the heart, and form the character of tomorrow's leaders.

Human Services
6
Florida Health Sciences Center Inc

As the region's leading safety net hospital, tampa general hospital is committed to providing area residents with excellent and compassionate health care ranging from the simplest to the most complex medical services. our shared purpose:…

Health
7
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.

Human Services
8
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
9
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…

Education
10
The Hospice Foundation of the Florida Suncoast Inc

The mission of suncoast hospice foundation is to advance the understanding, participation, and support of the mission and programs of suncoast hospice and its affilated organizations, honoring the community's sacred trust through sound…

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11
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
12
The Hospice Institute of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice institute is now inactive.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Cerebral Palsy of Central Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is ConprmetidosCorp. 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

62 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. 62 of the 100 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
41/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PUERTO RICO: $309,800 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PUERTO RICOCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYPALM LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $133,100 · OtherPALM LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTHE SALVATION ARMY: $115,000 · OtherHighlands Biological Foundation Inc: $96,500 · Other+55 more: $1,484,389 · Other+55 moreINSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA INC: $295,000 · EducationINSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA…WARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION: $132,000 · EducationWARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT…Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc: $131,500 · EducationBoys & Girls Club of Th…Robinson School Inc Robinson School inc: $119,000 · EducationRobinson School Inc Rob…MULTISENSORY READING CENTERS OF PR INC: $110,000 · EducationMULTISENSORY READING CE…Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $75,000 · EducationRabun Gap-Nacoochee Sch…Summit Charter School: $58,500 · EducationSummit Charter School+6 more: $68,500 · Education+6 moreORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC: $625,000 · Arts & CultureORLANDO SCIENCE C…ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $56,000 · Arts & CultureORLANDO PHILHARMO…+3 more: $46,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $130,000 · HealthTHE BOGGY C…Orlando Health Foundation Inc: $100,000 · HealthOrlando Hea…EDGEWOOD CHILDREN'S RANCH INC: $98,000 · HealthEDGEWOOD CH…HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $80,000 · HealthHEAD STRONG…Grace Medical Home Inc: $75,000 · HealthGrace Medic…+3 more: $17,500 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentHope Heals Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL FLORIDA YMCA FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesVISION CASHIERS INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesJUDSON COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesYMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $4,500 · Human ServicesCASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $62,000 · AnimalsPET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $12,500 · AnimalsSociety For the Treatment of Abandoned and Fractured Friends: $8,000 · AnimalsWOMEN UNITED FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $5,000 · Animals
Other$2,288,789Education$989,500Arts & Culture$727,000Health$500,500Youth Development$110,000Human Services$104,000Animals$87,500

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 SCIENCE CENTERINC: $625,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetINSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA INC: $295,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION: $132,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc: $131,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $130,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetRobinson School Inc Robinson School inc: $119,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMULTISENSORY READING CENTERS OF PR INC: $110,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetOrlando Health Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEDGEWOOD CHILDREN'S RANCH INC: $98,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetHighlands Biological Foundation Inc: $96,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGrace Medical Home Inc: $75,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Village Green of Cashiers Inc: $66,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOK TOWER GARDENS INC: $65,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $62,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSummit Charter School: $58,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $56,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHope Heals Inc: $45,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetConprmetidosCorp: $40,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCentral Florida Pediatric Therapy Foundation Inc: $39,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLEGIO PUERTORRIQUEO DE NIAS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $23,190 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL FLORIDA YMCA FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetThe Hampton School: $20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetST MICHAEL'S ENDOWMENT TRUST FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETA-LOCAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVISION CASHIERS INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPerforming Arts Center Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASHIERS-GLENVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetESCUELA AURORA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetENTERPRIZE EVENTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSociety For the Treatment of Abandoned and Fractured Friends: $8,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA INC ↗
  • Who funds WARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
  • Who funds Robinson School Inc Robinson School inc ↗
  • Who funds MULTISENSORY READING CENTERS OF PR INC ↗
  • Who funds Orlando Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds EDGEWOOD CHILDREN'S RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Highlands Biological Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Grace Medical Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Village Green of Cashiers Inc ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOK TOWER GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Summit Charter School ↗
  • Who funds ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope Heals Inc ↗
  • Who funds GLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds ConprmetidosCorp ↗
  • Who funds Central Florida Pediatric Therapy Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC ↗

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 Community Foundat…Florence Mauboules Ch…The Dr P Phillips Fou…Gulf Coast Community …The Marvin and Helene…The Double Eagle Foun…Highlands Cashiers He…Brighton Foundation T…Magruder Chesley G Fd…Universal Orlando Fou…The Billi Marcus Foun…Truist Foundation Inc
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC31.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Marvin and Helene Gralnick Foundation Inc · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · The Billi Marcus Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc

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 A Friends Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A Friends Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • United Cerebral Palsy of Central Florida Inc: 13% of income from government
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Alachua Conservation Trust Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Orlando Science Centerinc: 4% of income from government
  • Central Florida Council Boy Scouts of America Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Bok Tower Gardens Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Orlando Museum of Art Inc: 0% of income from government
  • National House of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Help a Diabetic Child Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 100 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-PF 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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