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About the Future Inc

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.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$165kYouth Development$70kInternational$67kEducation$50kAnimals$35kHuman Services$25kPhilanthropy$25kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL$55,000
NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL$25,000
MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL$25,000
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$25,000
SAMARITAN'S FEET INTERNATIONAL$7,000
HUMANE SOCEITY OF NAPLES$5,000
TOWN OF MERIDETH MERIDETH CONSERVATION COMMISSION$3,000
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 (FY22–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%1162 FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 9%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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$172k · 4 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$172k
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-64%
+42%

Still filing today

25%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentInternationalHuman ServicesHealthEducationOther
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

  • SF
    Samaritan's Feet International
    4× · 2022–2025 · $67k · revenue -64%
  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $35k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k

Funded once

  • CH
    CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +224%
  • CH
    CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC CO CONNORS FOUNDATION OFFICE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • NH
    NCH HEART INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $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
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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2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
4
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
5
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc

Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.

Health
6
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc

Tallahassee memorial healthcare foundation, inc. is a not-for-profit irc section 501(c)(3) organization whose purpose is to develop philanthropic support for its parent, tallahassee memorial healthcare, inc. ("tmh"), and to generate a high…

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7
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
8
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
9
Ucf Athletics Association Inc

To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.

Education
10
United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation

To generate philanthropic support for the united states olympic and paralympic committee (usopc). the usopc's mission is: empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and…

Recreation & Sports
11
Flagler Health Care Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to support uf health 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…

Health
12
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Collier County; the most unlike its peers is The 1162 Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL: $55,000 · OtherTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITALNEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $35,000 · OtherNEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $35,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDHUMANE SOCEITY OF NAPLES: $35,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCEITY OF NAPLESMASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL HOSPITALCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC CO CONNORS FOUNDATION OFFICE: $25,000 · OtherCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC CO CONNORS FOUNDATION OFFICENCH HEART INSTITUTE: $25,000 · OtherNCH HEART INSTITUTEYMCA of Collier County: $10,000 · OtherUSA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $5,000 · OtherCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HARBOR VIEW …BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB…Samaritan's Feet International: $67,000 · InternationalSamaritan's Feet…NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 · HealthTHE 1162 FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTNING FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Education
Other$260,000Youth Development$70,000International$67,000Health$25,000Human Services$15,000Education$15,000

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 budgetSamaritan's Feet International: $67,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 1162 FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLIGHTNING FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of Collier County: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUSA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Samaritan's Feet International ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE 1162 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTNING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR ↗
  • Who funds YMCA of Collier County ↗
  • Who funds USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 About the Future Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from About the Future Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Naples Community Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ymca of Collier County: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to About the Future Inc?

Find your warmest path to About the Future Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 17 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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