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Amsler Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$208k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it funds
0188% 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$1.6MEducation$211kHealth$120kRecreation & Sports$61kFood & Nutrition$20kHuman Services$12kReligion$5kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $190k
$55,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CF Future Stars$135,000
Friends of VA Unity Softball$55,000
The Masters Academy$18,088
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 (FY20–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%HEARTS HANDS AND HOPE: $20k → 11%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 7 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +185% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
18

Total granted

$1.9M
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+185%
+46%

Still filing today

57%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CC
    CROSSROADS CORRAL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $142k · revenue +9% · 43% of their budget
  • GM
    Gina McReynolds Foundation Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +206% · 36% of their budget
  • LM
    LAKE MARY LITTLE LEAGUE INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • SE
    SWEETWATER EPISCOPAL ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $46k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • HH
    HEARTS HANDS & HOPE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -44%
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
Hollys Hope of North Port
Education
2
Central Florida Childrens Home

To provide homes for disadvantaged children.

Human Services
3
Walk On Water Ministries of Central Florida Inc

Walk On Water is a non-profit organization dedicated to giving individuals the opportunity to experience and bond with horses in a safe and loving environment. We are committed to teaching responsibility, self-confidence, teamwork and…

Religion
4
Hope International Ministries Inc

To rescue the next generation. This organization provides a stable and loving christian home for displaced children. The care of these children includes food, shelter, education and faith based activities.

Human Services
5
Lamp of Hope Ministry Inc

Lamp of Hope Ministries is a non profit organization committed to improving the well-being of families and individuals facing poverty homelessness domestic abuse low literacy military family service major illness and the aftermath of…

Human Services
6
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
7
Lady Rocks Softball

Fostering National or International Amateur Sports Competition. The mission of the Lady Rocks Softball organization is to provide your child with a wholesome atmosphere in which to engage in a healthy athletic competition. The Coaches are…

Recreation & Sports
8
Find Feed & Restore Inc

Eliminate homelessness through housing, financial literacy and mental health counseling.

Housing & Shelter
9
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
10
Pediatric Oncology Support Team Inc

The mission of post is to help local children and their families courageously fight cancer by giving them compassionate emotional and financial support. post's multidisciplinary team of dedicated, caring professionals provide free,…

Health
11
Diamond Dreams Extreme 10U

To provide opprotunities for youth to compete in softball and baseball compettitions.

Recreation & Sports
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hearts Hands & Hope Inc; the most unlike its peers is Crossroads Corral 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

9 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. 9 of the 26 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE STARS: $773,000 · OtherCENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE STARSTHE MASTERS ACADEMY: $155,310 · OtherTHE MASTERS ACADEMYGina McReynolds Foundation Inc: $80,000 · OtherGina McReynolds Foundation IncFriends of VA Unity Softball: $55,000 · OtherSWEETWATER EPISCOPAL ACADEMY INC: $45,500 · Other+14 more: $109,250 · Other+14 moreCF FUTURE STARS INC: $695,000 · Youth DevelopmentCF FUTURE STARS INCCROSSROADS CORRAL INC: $142,000 · Youth DevelopmentCROSSROADS CORRAL INCHEARTS HANDS & HOPE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE DOANE STUART SCHOOL: $7,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE: $300 · EducationGive Hope Foundation Inc: $2,500 · PhilanthropyORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,218,060Youth Development$837,000Human Services$20,000Education$7,300Philanthropy$2,500Housing & Shelter$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCF FUTURE STARS INC: $695,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetCROSSROADS CORRAL INC: $142,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetGina McReynolds Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetHEARTS HANDS & HOPE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE DOANE STUART SCHOOL: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE MARY LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGive Hope Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE: $300 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 CF FUTURE STARS INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS CORRAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Gina McReynolds Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS HANDS & HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DOANE STUART SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LAKE MARY LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Give Hope Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE ↗

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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    8get 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 · 0–50%
    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

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    How do I get to Amsler Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Amsler Family Foundation 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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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